With a drop in the daily allocation to about 129 megawatts of electricity out of the 1,175 national power generation, there is little the Benin Electricity Distribution Plc. (BEDC) could do to ensure stable power supply to its customers in Edo, Delta, Ondo and Ekiti states, the distribution companies Managing Director, Mrs Funke Osibodu, has said.

Determined to halt the activities of terrorists and other organized criminal gangs in the country, the Federal Government is considering the establishment of a Deoxyribonucleic acid DNA data-bank for use by security and intelligence services in tracking criminals.

Today, In Vitro Fertilization, IVF is practically a household word. But not so long ago, it was a mysterious procedure for infertility that produced what was then known as “test-tube babies.”

SECURITY agents have arrested five suspected militants in connection with the bombing of a Chevron Nigeria Limited, CNL crude oil pipeline in the early hours of yesterday at Makaraba community, Gbaramatu clan, Warri South-West Local Government Area, Delta State.

A manufacturing company did the unusual when it sent emails to its staff to tell them that the enemy of the company had been captured. Those who were interested in its identity should proceed to the conference room. Those who went found a life sized coffin. Inside it was a big mirror. The message was not lost on the staff. They were, as they looked at themselves in the mirror, individually, and collectively, the enemies of the company.

The raid by the Nigerian Navy Ship Beecroft, an operations base of the Western Naval Command, Apapa, Lagos, which covers the sea and coastal areas from the Nigeria/Benin border at Long 002o 49’ E to Long 006o E in Delta State from the Nigerian coastline to the limit of the nation’s Economic Exclusive Zone, was taken beyond the waters, penultimate Wednedssay. The operation which was witnessed by journalists was carried right in the den of vandals in communities such as Akalaba, Abagbo, Corner loss, Ati-Alashe Ilado-Odo , Faji Island, Atlas Cove, all in Lagos State.

“I got the number of Gbanjo Deals on the internet and called that I needed three Samsung Galaxy S7 Dual Sim phones and they told me that they were going to get them for me. I told them I was a member of the Lagos State House of Assembly, and I gave them an address at the Lagos State Ministry of Environment, Alausa. When the delivery man arrived, I took him to an open office, asked him to sit and I left through the back door.

Help is available to you. Not the help of man that is vain but the help of God that will enable you to do valiantly. Your situation is not beyond the help of God. No matter how long the case may have been, it still has a solution. Don’t despair nor give up. Keep on pressing ahead towards your future that is more glorious than where you are coming from. Through the grace of God you will receive help to accomplish the task and or vision.

The recent hike in the price of Premium Motor Spirit, PMS, also known as petrol, had thrown up a number of disturbing realities, that, henceforth, Nigerians are at the mercy of oil marketers, who are mainly profit-oriented; subjected to vagaries in the international crude oil market; and are at risk over low value of the naira against major international currencies.

Organisers and participants at the Tackling Corruption Together Conference, and the Anti-Corruption Summit: London 2016, which held in London on Wednesday and Thursday, no doubt, had expected the usual jamboree, where papers are presented and theoretical discussions held and everyone returns to his or her country: business as usual. However, the events turned out to be business unusual as the issue of corruption was frontally discussed beyond rhetorics, and practical steps taken to confront the issue of corruption, generally seen as a major factor responsible for the underdevelopment of third world or developing countries.