FG pays N200bn to offset Gencos’ gas bill
Okechukwu Nnodim, Abuja The Federal Government has in the past two to three days paid over N200bn for power supply in Nigeria, the Group Managing Director, Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, Mele Kyari, declared on Wednesday. Also, the Association of Nigerian Electricity Distributors, the umbrella body for Discos, has said the proposed two-month free electricity for…
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Infidelity: Husband bathes wife with pepper-laced hot water
Bola Bamigbola, Osogbo A 27-year-old man, Adeniyi Akinde, has reportedly bathed his wife, Deborah, with hot water laced with pepper, while she was sleeping over suspicion of infidelity. The incident happened on Tuesday around 12.30am in the Oke-Owu area of Modakeke, Osun State, where the couple resides. The victim was said to have been rushed…
Kano records first COVID-19 death
Four days after it recorded its index case of coronavirus, Kano state has confirmed its first death from the disease. The state ministry of health announced the death in a tweet posted at 11:55pm on Wednesday. Details of the death were not given but the ministry said there were 21 total cases of COVID-19 in…
Revolution in Nigeria: Let’s face reality
There are many young Nigerians within the country and in the diaspora, who genuinely think that revolution in Nigeria is the only solution to our problems. If their definition of revolution is related to the revolutions that ousted Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak in 2011, Iranian Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi in 1979, or Libyan Colonel Muammar…