Electricity distribution companies, DISCOs, across the country which fail to meter electricity customers within their network will soon taste the wrath of Nigeria Electricity Regulatory Commission, NERC, the regulatory body of the power sector.

IT never ceases to amaze me to what length Nigerians would go in their unbridled quest for relevance.

In an effort to achieve the Millennium Development Goal target, 2015, the Chinese government yesterday handed over a newly-built $12.5million Federal Staff Hospital to its Nigerian counterpart.

Fidelity Bank Plc said it is raising N15.57 billion two year loans from the international debt market to help increase its foreign currency lending capacity.

THE leadership of the Nigerian Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG) has berated the management of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) for not concluding on security of pipelines with local communities and their leaders.

Researchers at Stanford University, California, USA, have created HIV-resistant T-cells, a breakthrough that, if proven successful in humans, could potentially stop the virus from developing into AIDS.

Joint Operating Agreements (JOA) is the engine that drives petroleum exploration and development around the world. It is axiomatic that major international petroleum companies depend on JOA to provide services and technology which drives petroleum development and production both onshore and offshore.

There are 11 electricity distribution companies in Nigeria and the public comes into contact with the electric power sector through these distribution companies. We have great expectations with respect to the performance of these distribution companies during 2013.

A STUDY comparing disease rates among vaccinated and unvaccinated children has indicated that children who have been vaccinated according to official government schedules are up to five times more likely to contract a preventable disease than children who developed their own immune systems naturally without vaccines.

OSOGBO —OSUN State Government has paid N340 million as West Africa Examination Council, WAEC, fees for 33,000 final year students in all the public secondary schools in the state.

LAGOS State Police Command, yesterday, said the clash between its men and those of the Nigerian Navy last Friday, in Apapa area of Lagos, over the enforcement of the new traffic law, would not deter it from carrying out its constitutional responsibility.

HE was full of life at the second Igu Aro ceremony of His Majesty Igwe Ralph O. Ekpeh, Eze Enugwu Ukwu na Igwe Umunri on Saturday January 5, 2013. He was dressed in his Ozo regalia as a member of the Igwe’s cabinet, the mmilinaezoluora Enugwu Ukwu na Umunri – benevolent rainfall for the masses.

Worried about the challenges of attainment of the fourth Millennium Development Goal, MDG 4, by 2015, stakeholders in the private medical sector have urged government at all levels to initiate policies that would encourage proper antenatal procedure in the country.

TWO scientists at California Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco have found that a compound derived from marijuana could stop metastasis in many kinds of aggressive cancer, potentially altering the fatality of the disease forever.

Emmanuel Mayuka is optimistic Zambia will on Tuesday qualify for the 2013 Africa Cup quarterfinals.