The Northern States Governors’ Forum and General Electric International yesterday signed a memorandum of understanding, MOU, for the construction of five solar plants in some parts of Northern Nigeria.

With the ongoing efforts of the Federal Government to rebuild the towns and communities destroyed by Boko Haram insurgents in the North East zone, a German firm, LTI Re Energy and its Nigerian partner, NIGUS International, have sealed an agreement to light up the zone through renewable energy resources.

Amidst concerns over electricity theft across the country, management of Kano Electricity Distribution Company Plc, KEDCO, has advanced its customer enumeration project, enlisting about 500,000 into its data base. The company’s spokesperson, Mohammed Kandi, told Vanguard that though the figure is a huge jump from 200,000 it inherited from the Power Holding Company of Nigeria, PHCN, the management had planned to have about one million customers in its data base by end of 2016, if not for some technical hitches it encountered during the exercise.

Against current economic recession and oil price downturn, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Chevron Nigeria Limited, CNL, Clay Neff, has pledged his company’s commitment to improving human capital development in the country through its Global Memorandum of Understanding, GMoU. He also assured of Chevron’s continued commitment to the Nigerian Government’s Gas Master Plan initiative.

The Federal High Court, Ikoyi, Lagos yesterday heard a witness describe how foreign currency was moved from Justice Rita Ofili-Ajumogobia chambers and deposited into her account in Diamond Bank.