Nigeria’s power sector has just gone from bad to worse. The long standing problems have become complicated.

SITTING at the Governorship Election Tribunal in Benin, Edo State, yesterday, suffered a setback over the status of a witness subpoenaed by the tribunal as counsel to the petitioners and the respondents engaged in a heated argument on whether he should be allowed to testify or not.

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RIGHT from the advent of Augustine Efe Oyibo’s administration as the Chairman of Delta State University Teaching Hospital Staff Multipurpose Co-operative society, Oghara for the past one year. Media reports on the institution staff welfare have taken multifarious dimensions. His leadership model has not only saturated the airwaves, but also filled the volumes of newspapers and magazines.

National and West African Middleweight boxing champion, Rasheed Abolaji, a.k.a. Afonja Warrior has promised to knock out his British opponent, Sam Sheedy when they clash for the vacant Commonwealth crown at Ponds Forge Arena, Yorkshire, England on March 18.

BENIN — I came face-to- face with the ebony-complexioned Mr. Godwin Nogheghase Obaseki, the fifth executive governor of Edo State, Saturday, January 28, at Government House, Benin City, popularly known as Denis Osadebey Avenue, about 10 years after I last met a former occupant of the office, Chief Lucky Igbinedion, at Edo’s seat of power.

ITSEKIRI nation says it will sue the Federal Government if the law establishing Nigerian Maritime University, NMU, Kurutie, Warri South-West Local Government Area, Delta State, is passed without compensation paid to the Omadino people, the perceived land owners.

EFFORT by the current administration to create better enabling business environment in Nigeria will soon yield result as the Nigerian Export Promotion Council, NEPC, and the United Nations Centre for Trade Facilitation and Electronic Business, UN/CEFACT, have agreed to simplify national and international transactions by streamling processes and procedures for export trade.

Enugu State Governor, Emeka Ugwuanyi and his Anambra State counterpart, Willie Obiano and the Director, Centre for African Economies at Oxford University, Professor Paul Collier, jointly stressed the need for huge investments in infrastructural development to fast track the nation’s economic recovery and achieve liveable cities.

I had lived with Fistula since the Biafran war. People shunned me each time I tried to sit close to them. Life was living hell for me. I could not attend meetings with fellow women” said Mrs Nworogwu Odoh in the Ikwo dialect amidst chants of Halleluya by other natives of Oron’a, Amagu community of Ikwo local government area of Ebonyi State.

An Ikorodu customary court, yesterday in Lagos, ordered one Israel Linus to be detained for allegedly kidnapping his two children, after the court gave custody of the children to his wife.

Urhobo youths, on the platform of Urhobo National Youth Congress, UNYC, have appealed to the Assets Management Company of Nigeria, AMCON, to quickly offset the emoluments owed former staff of the moribund Delta Steel Company, Ovwian-Aladja, so as to pave the way for the new investors to begin the revamping process of the plant without encumbrances.

AS part of moves to cope with the increasing demands for medical services in Bauchi metropolis, following the influx of internally-displaced persons, IDPs, from neighbouring states, Governor Mohammed Abubakar has asked all state-sponsored doctors to return and serve the state as contained in their contractual agreements.

OGWASHI-UKU — THE joy of three prisoners knew no bounds, Thursday, February 2, when the Personal Assistant to Governor Ifeanyi Okowa on Special Duties (Media), Mr. Ovie Success Ossai, settled their prison bills and set them free. The three inmates were serving various jail terms at the Medium Security Prison in Ogwashi-Uku, Aniocha South Local Government Area of Delta State.

Former Super Eagles coach, Samson Siasia has revealed that he applied for job of coaching Orlando Pirates of South Africa.