The Minister of Power, Prof. Chinedu Nebo, has said that about 30 million households in Nigeria are still without access to electricity

Four weeks after the Nyanya bomb blast that claimed 74 lives and injured many others, the identities of the masterminds of the blast were made public by the Department of State Services, DSS, yesterday.

Hundreds of women under the aegis of National Association of Widows and Single Mothers Empowerment protested in Abeokuta, the Ogun state capital over the abduction of the female students of Government Girls Secondary School, Chibok, Borno State.

CONTROVERSIAL politician and a delegate, Alhaji Buba Galadima, surprised his fellow members of the National Conference Committee on Devolution of Powers, yesterday, when he stormed out of the committee’s meeting to stage a solo protest over the abduction of over 200 girls from Government Secondary School, Chibok, Borno State by members of the Boko Haram sect.

PERMANENT Secretary of the Ministry of Education, Mr. Mc John Nwaobiala, has said there is no budgetary provision to settle the arrears owed lecturers of federal polytechnics, who are currently on strike.

Governor Kayode Fayemi and teachers in the state finally made peace yesterday after the governor announced the abolition of the controversial competency test and raised the Teachers Pecuniary Allowance.

The host community of Bauchi State Polytechnic, Bauchi, is counting its losses following 10 months’ strike by members of Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics, ASUP, in the country.

Bishop Hassan Kukah, the Catholic Bishop of Sokoto Diocese, has called on Nigerians to embark on fervent prayers for the successful rescue of the abducted Chibok school girls.

LAGOS — The decision by the Nigeria Customs Service, NCS, to commence the implementation of a new policy that will jerk up duty on imported fairly used vehicles has sparked unrest among customs agents who staged a protest in Lagos, yesterday.

ADO EKITI–GOVERNOR Kayode Fayemi of Ekiti State, and his main challenger in the June 21 governorship election in the state, Mr. Ayo Fayose of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, again, yesterday traded words over plots to rig the gubernatorial election.

LAGOS — A special adviser to the Agege Local Government Area chairman, Adebayo‑Oscar Kamoru, who flogged one Mrs Adenike Aina Oshodi with a cane in Agege, has been brought before an Ikeja magistrate’s court over unlawful assault.

ORGANISED labour has called on the Federal Government to implement the standardisation of cement in the country with caution to avoid worsening the unemployment situation in the country

Top global oil exporter Saudi Arabia will step in to cover any potential shortage arising from the Ukraine crisis, its oil minister said yesterday

AFTER over three months of sitting, the Anambra State governorship election petition tribunal sitting in Awka adjourned to May 23, 2014 after the various parties in the petition closed their cases.

ABUJA — CHAIRMAN, House of Representatives Committee on Commerce, Sylvester Ogbaga, yesterday, said Nigerians should hold the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC and the Presidency responsible for the delay in the passage of Petroleum Industry Bill, PIB.