The Federal Government’s decision to cancel the contract with Manitoba Hydro over the management of the Transmission Company of Nigeria, TCN, is harrmful to the Nigerian economy, and will further worsen the current power situation, according to economic analysts and stakeholders in the power sector.

The Chief Justice of Nigeria, CJN, Justice Aloma Mariam Mukhtar, yesterday, cried out that allegation of judges collecting bribes before granting bail to accused persons had become rampant, and vowed to fish out such judges and administer appropriate sanctions on them.

The Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, Mr. Andrew Yakubu has said that the corporation has surpassed its target in gas supply and is presently in surplus availability for power generation.

A UNIVERSITY don and a fellow of Nigerian Society of Engineers, NSE, Prof. Samuel Wara has noted that Poly Vinyl Chloride commonly known as PVC which is one of the common synthetic materials heavily used in building construction today, especially for interior finishes, is the most environmentally damaging plastic material ever used by home owners.

IMAGINE a hospital that is big enough to change the world but small enough to fit in a box? This hospital doesn’t cost billions, on the contrary, it is quite affordable and requires no extensive staff training.

REINTEGRATION ofNigerians in Diaspora: In the past ten years, there has been an outpour of ideas and strategies particularly from Nigerians in Diaspora about how Nigeria can develop.

The alleged strained relationship between President Goodluck Jonathan and his one time benefactor, former President Olusegun Obasanjo was further stretched, yesterday, after Obasanjo rebuffed the incumbent president’s claims that the army invasion of Odi in Bayelsa State in 1999 was a failure.

CHAIRMAN, House of Representatives Committee on Inter-Parliamentary Affairs, Mr. Daniel Reyenieju, has advised fellow lawmakers not to be teleguided by the Federal Government and multinational oil companies while deliberating on the Petroleum Industry Bill, PIB.

I DON’T know why it took so long for the clarification to be made; that neither the National Assembly, nor the Committee on the Review of the Constitutional can create states with fiat. That era belonged to the military!

The newly-created Anti-Robbery Squad of the Zone 10 Police Headquarters in Sokoto has nabbed a Prison officer and three others for armed robbery and car snatching.