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Electricity Distribution Companies (DisCos) on Sunday commenced implementation of revised electricity tariffs across Nigeria. The revised tariffs are based on the decision of the technical committee set up to review the September 1 cost-reflective tariffs, whose implementation was temporarily halted after organised Labour threatened nationwide strike. The committee is headed by Minister of State for Labour and Employment Festus Keyamo. Labour is represented on the panel by Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) Deputy President Joe Ajaero. The controversial September 1 tariffs have now been slashed with discounts granted. Nigeria Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) chairman, Prof. James Momoh, confirmed that the Commission…

The All Progressives Congress (APC), South Africa Chapter, on Sunday said that the ruling party needs reawakening towards the 2023 general elections. The National Chairman of APC, South Africa, Mr Bola Babarinde, disclosed this in a statement in Lagos, titled “Towards 2023, APC needs Reawakening”. Bolarinde said that the emergence of the APC in 2013 was necessitated by the need to counter the dominance of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Nigeria. According to him, from 1999, the PDP had remained the ruling party, dominating Nigeria’s political terrain and making it difficult for other parties to ascend the presidency. He…

The Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Zainab Ahmed, has urged parents to instill family values in their children as a way to save the country from degeneration. The minister made the call on Saturday in Kaduna during a stakeholders’ engagement with 77 district heads, religious and community leaders from the 23 Local Government Areas of Kaduna State. “We are calling the attention of parents that we have failed our children in the sense that the kind of values we use to have is no more. “We need to remind ourselves that our children need to be upright and…

Nigerian troops code-named “Operation Sahel Sanity” have killed three bandits and rescued three kidnapped women in the northwest state of Katsina. The troops also rescued an infant and arrested two suspected informants, Samaila Usman and Idi Bello, during gun duels with bandits in Diskuru and Dan Ali villages of Katsina. But the troops lost one soldier during the fuel. Acting Director, Defence Media Operations, Brigadier General Bernard Onyeuko, in a statement, explained the recent successes recorded by the troops were as a result of continued aggressive operations in the fight against bandits in the North-West. He said: “On 29 October…

The Insight by Lateef Adewole “The children of the poor you failed to train will never let your children have peace”. – Chief Obafemi Awolowo There was a comedy skit I watched few days ago. A rich man owed someone who did a job for him but he refused to pay him. Despite all the appeals from the creditor who is of lower financial status, he still refused. The next thing the creditor did was to go out, make a call to some guys apparently in some community and told them he has located a place where palliatives were stored.…

Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of Enugu State has announced that the state government would take care of the medical bills of victims involved in a road accident at Nkwo junction, Awgu Local Government Area in Enugu state, between a truck and a school bus conveying pupils. This announcement was made when the governor alongside other prominent Igbo leaders, visited the injured students of the Presentation Nursery and Primary School and other victims at the University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital (UNTH) Ituku/Ozalla, to empathise with them. The tragedy which struck on Wednesday afternoon, had left 21 persons dead and others receiving treatment…

The Premier League and other elite sport can continue behind closed doors during a new four-week national lockdown in England. Prime Minister Boris Johnson has announced new restrictions for the country that will start on Thursday and run until 2 December to combat coronavirus and avoid the NHS being overwhelmed. Culture secretary Oliver Dowden tweeted that “travel to a place of work will be permitted” for “elite sport played behind closed doors”. During a news conference to announce the measures, Johnson gave a thumbs up and said “Yes to the Premier League” when asked if top-flight football will continue. The…

The Lagos State Judicial Panel of Inquiry and Restitution for Victims of SARS related abuses and other matters on Saturday heard the chilling details of how the now dissolved police unit allegedly tortured a pregnant teacher and her husband for 22 days, till she lost her baby. Ogechukwu Obiechina and his wife Ndubuisi told the panel that the incident occurred in June 2017 after the operatives falsely labeled her a thief and kidnapper. Mrs Obiechina , who spoke for the couple, said she was two months pregnant at the time, but that during beatings, the men threatened to “force the…

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) announced 162 confirmed new coronavirus cases in the country on Saturday. The 162 cases announced by the Centre for Disease Control takes the total number of confirmed COVID-19 cases to 62,853. The NCDC also announced the discharge of 245 patients from isolation centers across the country with no new deaths reported. Gombe state recorded the highest number of single cases on Saturday with 54 new coronavirus cases while the Federal Capital Territory recorded 35 cases. Lagos state, the epicentre of the virus in Nigeria reported 26 new confirmed cases taking the total number…

Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos has lifted the curfew imposed on the State following the hijack of the EndSARS protests that led to destruction of private and public properties. The Lagos state government on Saturday noted that the COVID-19 guidelines imposed by the Federal Government still remains in place. “The curfew imposed on Lagos State after the hijack of the peaceful #EndSARS protests has been lifted immediately. “The 12 a.m. to 4a.m. curfew imposed by the Federal Government to curb the spread of COVID-19 remains. Sanwo-Olu inspects ‘coordinated attack’, relaxes curfew “Lagosians are free to go about their businesses without…