General Electric, GE, has described Nigeria’s electricity infrastructure as inadequate, ageing and degraded, a situation that is responsible for the current power crisis in the country.

PEOPLES’ Democratic Party, PDP, governorship candidate in the August 9 election in Osun State, Senator Iyiola Omisore, yesterday threatened to drag Governor Rauf Aregbesola to court over a statement allegedly credited to Aregbesola that he (Omisore) was an ex-convict.

AHEAD of the flag off of the World Economic Forum tomorrow and security arrangements to ensure that terrorists and trouble makers did not cause a breach of the peace, the Police headquarters in Abuja has ordered the deployment of scores of undercover operatives to satellite towns within and outside the federal capital.

A middle aged man (names withheld), yesterday, died in Abakaliki while having marathon sex with a female student of Ebonyi State University, EBSU, Abakaliki.

A middle aged woman, who pretended to be a lunatic, has been set ablaze for attempting to kidnap a seven-year-old primary school pupil in Ondo town, Ondo State, yesterday.

Governor Isa Yuguda of Bauchi State, yesterday, lamented over what he described as huge wage bill being paid by his administration, saying salaries of workers had taken the greater percentage of statutory receipts from the federation account by the state government.

NIGERIANS have become used to seeing the mass of women who under different guises press their campaigns for more official positions in our polity. Women want places for themselves, not as alternatives to the men. It is more a campaign for more representation, based mostly on population.

The prosecution in the trial of Cynthia Osokogu’s alleged murderers, yesterday, presented before a Lagos High Court in Igbosere, a laptop containing naked pictures of the deceased.

Emotion ran high, yesterday, at the Lagos State Police Command, Ikeja, Lagos after a 54-year-old grandmother told a bewildered crowd that she sold human skull for N20,000.

The suspect, Sukuratu Salami, who was paraded alongside a cemetery guard and two others,were arrested by operatives of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad, SARS, in Joju area of Sango Ota, with a human head, intestines, bones, kidney and other human parts.

Chairman of Ndigbo Lagos and a delegate to the National Conference, Professor Anya O. Anya, told some journalists in Lagos, weekend, why the ongoing confab will not be business as usual. According to him, every part of the country is now in negotiation mood and the era of any part of the country playing the big boss has gone; now every part has challenges and needs the help of others to remain afloat. Excerpts: