The Federal Government has issued a 48-hour ultimatum to the Transmission Company of Nigeria, TCN, to reconnect troubled Borno State to the national grid.

The Federal Government, yesterday, appealed to the Indonesian government to show clemency for 12 Nigerians convicted of drug crimes in that country.

SINCE 1999, Benue State has been a core PDP state. The people always cast their vote en mass in all elections for the largest political party in Africa. Indeed it was in recognition of this that Benue State had produced two national chairmen of PDP and other sensitive positions in the party’s apparatchik.

PRESIDENTIAL Campaign Organisation of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, yesterday, faulted explanation by presidential candidate of All Progressives Congress, APC, General Muhammadu Buhari, retd, on the alleged certificate scam.

Hundreds of thousands of unruly youths from strongholds of the All Peoples Congress, APC, in Kaduna State yesterday shut down most major streets in the northern parts of Kaduna metropolis, in a frenzy of support for the APC Presidential candidate, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, rtd, as they awaited his visit

Last week, the shares of Presco Plc, UAC of Nigeria Plc, Cutix Plc, Beta Glass Company (Nig.) Plc, Union Bank of Nigeria, UBN Plc and Custodian and Allied Plc enjoyed unalloyed patronage from the investing public, thereby emerging the most active stocks on the Nigerian Stock Exchange, NSE, in terms of price movement.

The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, and its midstream subsidiary, the Pipelines and Products Marketing Company, PPMC, have called on all Nigerians living in communities close to pipelines to protect them from the activities of vandals.

The Minister of Power, Prof. Chinedu Nebo, has tasked the Chinese companies to fill in the gap created by the weak transmission system to boost Nigeria’s capacity to wheel generated power to end users.

Agenebode, the capital of Etsako East Local Government Area, a town at the bedside of River Niger, reputed for the number of prominent Nigerians it has produced and where the 195 Battalion of the Nigerian Army is located, is about to be cut off from its kilt and kins.

To stem unending incidents of building collapse across Lagos State, members of the Building Collapse and Prevention Guild (BCPG), a voluntary organisation made of built environment professionals with the mandate to prevent buildings from collapsing, has decided to seek police collaboration in its quest to tackle the menace.

ABUJA — Nigeria needs about $128 trillion for infrastructural development to bring her to the level of other developing countries in the world.

Jaguar Land Rover will in 2016 add a new Jaguar model into its family. The new Jaguar, a performance crossover will be produced at the company’s plant in Solihull, UK. The new Jaguar will be known as Jaguar F-PACE.

Niger Delta Nationalities Forum, NDNF, Lagos State chapter, has called for support for President Goodluck Jonathan in the fight against corruption and insurgency in the country. It also solicited his re-election for continuity and entrenchment of genuine democracy.

LAGOS— “Nigerians have fought long and hard to earn democratic rights. They want and deserve peaceful and credible elections. Every Nigerian, from party leaders to candidates to average citizens, should do everything in his or her power to help meet those expectations.”

ABUJA — Buhari Support Organisation, BSO, an umbrella body of 85 groups canvassing support for the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, yesterday, raised alarm that the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has flouted Abuja peace accord entered into by 14 presidential candidates last week.