Electricity distribution companies (DISCOS) across the country in conjunction with the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) were already executing the new tariff they had imposed on Nigerians earlier this year before the intervention of the Senate, last week stopping them from further implementation until the outcome of a public hearing that would be carried out by its relevant committees.

ABUJA — MINERS under the auspices of the Progressive Miners Association of Nigeria, PMAN, have called on President Muhammadu Buhari to be cautious of sycophants and cabals in the solid minerals sector, as he moves to diversify the economy.

No fewer than 600,000 out of 1.1 million children below the age of five in Jigawa state are malnourished according to statistics released yesterday by the United Nations International Children Fund (UNICEF).

THE Nigeria Interbank Settlement System (NIBSS) and banks in the country have spent over N400 million to provide incentives to promote adoption of electronic payment in the country.

MORTUARY attendants at the 44-year-old Bomadi General Hospital, Bomadi in Bomadi Local Government Area, Delta State, stack corpses on improvised wooden platforms after embalmment and bizarrely abandon them to the vagaries of the weather, day and night.

Lagos—Activities on the Lagos-Badagry Expressway were yesterday halted for hours after students of the Lagos State University, LASU and the shuttle operators clashed with members of the National Union of Road Transport Workers, NURTW and the Road Transport Employers Association of Nigeria, RTEAN, at the Iyana-Iba motor park over increase in loading levies.

AHEAD of the All Progressives Congress, APC, governorship primaries slated for March or April 2016, the party has said that it will adhere to the 2014 delegates list, even as it assured party faithful that the conduct of the exercise will be transparent, free and fair.

THE people of Oporoza, traditional headquarters of Gbaramatu Kingdom, Warri South-West Local Government Area, Delta State, have said that the Oporoza Guesthouse, listed as “Tompolo House,” which the Federal High Court, Lagos, recently ordered the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, to confiscate, belongs to the community and not the former militant leader, Government Ekpemupolo, alias Tompolo.

ABUJA — The Abuja Division of the Federal High Court, yesterday, suspended the trial of the alleged mastermind of the 2010 Independence Day bomb blast that killed 12 persons at Eagle Square in Abuja, Mr. Charles Okah.

As Borno State government intensify efforts at re-opening schools in the state, the State’s Relocation Committee (SREC) yesterday commenced the evacuation and transportation of 4,506 Internally Displaced Persons, IDPs from Government College to Bakassi camp in Maiduguri metropolis.