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The Jos Electricity Distribution Company (JED), says it will soon restore power supply to Bauchi and Gombe States following progress recorded in the repair work of four vandalised transmission towers. JED’s Managing Director, Abdu Bello-Mohammed said this during an inspection visit to the ongoing reconstruction of vandalised 330kV power line towers.This is contained in a statement by Dr Friday Adakole-Elijah, Head, Corporate Communications, on Sunday in Bauchi. Bello-Mohammed was represented by the Chief Operating Officer of the company, Alhaji Mamanlafia Umar. He said the management of the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) are working assiduously towards fixing the problems.JED officials…

Some natives of Idu, a community in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), have staged a peaceful protest, condemning the alleged injustice meted out to them by property developers. The protesters, comprising men, women, and youth, marched through the streets of Idu community, carrying placards and chanting slogans that expressed their grievances. Addressing newsmen at the protest, the youth leader of Karimo, Musa Abdullahi, said the community had been subjected to suffering due to activities of the developers. According to the protesters, some property developers have been acquiring their ancestral lands without proper compensation. He recalled that the land, which is…

Gov. Douye Diri of Bayelsa says International Oil Companies (lOCs), particularly Shell Petroleum Development Company, have been responsible for the environmental degradation in the state. Diri disclosed this at the Annual Convention and Fund Raising of the Ijaw National Congress (INC) of the Americas, held in Houston, Texas, U.S., on Sunday. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the congress has the theme: “Ijaw-Nation: Nurturing Partnership through Symbiotic Relationships Towards Homeland, Social, and Economic Development’’. The governor specifically fingered Shell as a major culprit in the degradation of the Bayelsa environment. “After waiting for several years for dialogue without…

Gunmen again struck at the weekend in Enugu and reportedly killed three police officers and an official of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) at separate checkpoints along the Enugu-Markurdi highway in Enugu State. The incident occurred at Premier Junction Eha-Alumona in Nsukka Local Council and Orba town in Udenu Local Council. According to eyewitnesses, the attack which lasted more than two hours, started at about 4:00 p.m., while two Hilux vans belonging to police and FRSC teams were set ablaze by the attackers. It was learnt that the gunmen also attacked Igwe Patrick Eze, also known as Igwe Waziri,…

• Supply drops to 8.5 hours daily despite upgrade to Band ‘A’• We’re priced out of the market with electricity hike, MAN cries out• Output dips as costs of production, distribution skyrocket The burden of local manufacturing may have increased in recent times as the operators spent N290 billion on self-generated energy in a space of three months – first quarter – exclusive data sourced from the Manufacturers Association of Nigeria (MAN) have shown. This comes as energy costs of individual companies have soared beyond the reach of many, now standing at between 65-70 per cent of the total production costs. The huge expense stems mostly…

Destroys 11, 636.185kg of cannabis in Edo forest, intercepts three trailer loads of opioidsOperatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have arrested a 75-year-old grandpa, Jibril Audu, with 7.5kg of cannabis at Oke-asa village, Ijero-Ekiti, Ekiti State, during a raid. He was arrested on Friday, May 10, while a 70-year-old grandma, Tikwase Nytor, was nabbed with 15.6kg of the same substance on Thursday, May 9, during a raid at Achusa and International Market Road, Makurdi, Benue State. The agency also intercepted three trailer loads of opioids, comprising 3,450,000 million pills and 344,000 bottles of codeine syrup at Abule…

• Internet group warns of negative impact of policy on economy• Levy aimed at financial institutions, telecoms, Buba clarifies The resentment that greeted the Federal Government’s 0.5 per cent cybersecurity levy appears not to have abated, despite the reported quiet withdrawal of the policy. The likes of Senate Chief Whip, Ali Ndume, had praised President Bola Tinubu for listening to the people, ordering a review of the levy, and suspending its implementation. This was even as the Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA) lauded the President for displaying a fatherly disposition. At ‘The Morning Show’, a programme on Arise News, yesterday, the senator said: “It’s…

Attempts by previous sessions of the Senate to alter provisions of the 1999 Constitution ahead of election cycles, and the fresh amendment debate that follow afterwards all underscore the seemingly intractable deficiencies in the document. But stakeholders reckon that developing a new Constitution that would emanate from the inputs of various ethnic nationalities will halt the endless alteration debacle, SILVER NWOKORO reports. Regardless of numerous amendments to the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, the document generally referred to as the grundnorm still falls short of citizens’ expectations. Birthed by the 1979 presidential Constitution, it was the review…

Chijioke Iremeka Ahead of the 77th World Health Assembly billed to take place on May 27, 2024, the World Health Organisation, said countries have agreed to continue working on the proposed pandemic agreement and to further refine the draft. The WHO noted that at the government meeting at its headquarters in Geneva, it was agreed that hybrid and in-person discussions should resume over the coming weeks to advance work on critical issues bordering around a proposed new global system for pathogen access and benefits sharing, including life-saving vaccines, treatments, and diagnostics. Other issues are pandemic prevention, world health as well…

• Suspect demands N800,000 from child’s fatherThe Kaduna State Police Command has apprehended Abdulazeez Idris for the abduction and murder of a six-year-old girl, Aisha Saidu, in the Zaria area of the state. Idris, said to be a cousin brother to the victim, was apprehended by the Anti-Kidnapping Unit of the State Criminal Investigation Department (SCID) Kaduna. Spokesperson for the state’s Police Command, ASP Mansir Hassan, in a statement yesterday, said Aisha Saidu, a resident of Angwan Juma’a, Zaria, went missing on her way to Islamiyya school on February 12, 2024. According to him, her father, Mr Saidu Dahiru, reported…