As part of efforts to boost Nigeria’s electricity generation capacity, the Federal Government is set to sign an agreement with the Russian Federation that will culminate in the building of the nation’s first nuclear power plant.

In a strategic move aimed at developing capacity to fully attend to the power needs of residents and explore the hydrocarbon, oil and gas potentials of the state, the Lagos State Government has upgraded its Office of Energy and Mineral Resources to a full-fledged Ministry.

Lagos State Government has said residents of the state were at the risk of being electrocuted, as it had uncovered 20 distressed electric poles belonging to Power Holding Company of Nigeria, PHCN, which were on the verge of collapsing in different parts of the state.

A Professor of Biotechnology, James Ogbonna has said “the future of man on earth depends to a great extent on Biotechnology because it potentially has solutions to all our problems,’’ including creating “human spare parts’’. Ogbonna spoke while delivering the 61 annual lecture of the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, UNN, yesterday.

Over 12,000 lives are lost yearly on the nation’s roads to commercial motor circle (Okada) related accidents with about 30,000 seriously injured, a group, Arrive Alive Road Safety Initiative, has said.

INDICATION emerged yesterday that the Federal Government has jettisoned the agreement reached with organised labour that all levels of workers, including the non-core civil servants would benefit from the N18,000 new minimum wage.

The four mobile policemen arrested for allegedly robbing several banks, including one in Owutu area of Ikorodu, Lagos State, will today know their fate, says Police High command.

The Federal Government has ordered Julius Berger Nigeria Plc to immediately commence the repair and rehabilitation of some failed sections of the Apapa-Oshodi Expressway, Lagos.

Concerns about the threat of Boko Haram to national and sub- regional peace and security were raised yesterday as the Chief of Army Staff, Lt. General Onyeabor Ihejirika, spoke on the operational capabilities of the force to deal with the threat.

PRESIDENT Goodluck Jonathan warned, yesterday, that members of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP who assume that they are too big to be managed by the party can leave, even as he stressed that the leadership of the party must be courageous enough to discipline erring members.

Secretary to the Government of the Federation, SGF, Senator Anyim Anyim, has charged members of the Presidential Committee set up to audit the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, to unravel the causes of the crisis, which had bedeviled the commission over the years. He made the call, yesterday, while inaugurating the Committee in Abuja.