Enugu State House of Assembly has urged the Federal Ministry of Power to review the monopoly being enjoyed by the Enugu Electricity Distribution Company (EEDC) in the South-East. The assembly also urged EEDC management to adhere to the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission’s (NERC) provision on the rights of consumers in adherence to Part III, Section 352 of the metering code. These were part of the prayers contained in a report presented by special Ad-hoc Committee...

Katsina State House of Assembly chamber was turned into a weeping arena on Tuesday over recent killings of over 30 villagers in Batsari Local Government Area of the state. Alhaji Jabiru Yau-yau, the member representing Batsari constituency raised the issue at plenary under matters of urgent public interest. News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the member representing Jibia constituency, Alhaji Mustapha Yusuf, opened the flood gate of tears while contributing to the motion and...

The 6th edition of the Kaduna State Sports Festival is to begin on Feb. 24, according to Mr Ismail Let, Special Adviser, Media, to Gov Nasir el-Rufai. Let, in a statement on Tuesday in Kaduna, said that the state had concluded arrangements for the one-week festival that would be rounded off on March 1. “The festival is the first in more than 10 years. It is targeted at identifying talents from the grassroots for an...

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Tuesday re-arraigned six public officials allegedly involved in police pension scam to the tune of N64. 6 billion in an FCT High Court Maitama . Those re-arraigned are Atiku Abubakar Kigo; Ahmed Inuwa Wada; Mrs Veronica Ulonma Onyegbulam; Sani Habila Zira; Mrs Uzoma Cryril Attang and Christian Madubuke. They were first arraigned before Justice Hussein Baba-Yusuf, with the case number FCT/CR/64/2012 in 2013 on 20-count charge bordering...

A housewife, Maryam Usman, on Tuesday dragged her estranged husband, Rilwanu Haruna to a Sharia Court sitting in Magajin Gari, Kaduna State for allegedly insulting and disrespecting her parents. The petitioner who resides at Zangon Aya, Kaduna, through her counsel, Ado Ali, said that his client was seeking dissolution of her marriage to Haruna on grounds that he lacked respect for her parents. Ali said that the petitioner was willing to pay back Haruna his...