The Consumer Protection Council (CPC) has appraised the interaction between the nation’s Electricity Distribution Companies (DISCOs) and their consumers, declaring that arbitrary billing and group disconnection of electricity consumers without consideration for those paying their bills constitute a gross abuse of consumer rights.

Bauchi—Federal Ministry of Water Resources has disclosed that Nigeria has the highest number of persons, who practice open defecation with an estimate of over 46 million.

The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has donated $10 million to Nigeria for arms and relief materials for the internally-displaced persons’ crises in the country.

That Nigerian voters shifted their preference to retired Major General Muhammadu Buhari owed to his promise, as a perceived no-nonsense military officer, to rescue the girls and defeat Boko Haram. If indeed the Buhari administration is merely giving away huge sums of money to terrorists in exchange for the school girls, the implications are obvious.

PORT HARCOURT—MOVEMENT  for the Survival of the Ogoni People, MOSOP, Rivers State, says it will petition the United Nations yet again over alleged devastation of farmlands in Ogoni communities by Shell Petroleum Development Company, SPDC, in the course of laying new oil pipelines in the oil-rich area.

Students of Adeyemi College of Education, ACE, Ondo, Ondo State, yesterday, went on rampage as one of them was crushed to death and two others knocked down by a reckless driver.

El-Kanemi Warriors manager, Imams Amapakabo says he’s unperturbed over his team’s position on the Premier League table.

UMUAHIA—SENATOR Mao Ohuabunwa, representing Abia North District, has lamented the destructive activities of herdsmen, alleging that with the way the security threat is being treated, the APC Federal Government seems to value the life of animals more than that of human beings.

OWERRI—ANGRY reactions have continued to trail the near physical attack on the Catholic Archbishop of Owerri Ecclesiastical Province, His Grace, Dr. Anthony J. V. Obinna, and the riotous atmosphere engineered weekend, by loyalists of Imo State Government at St. Michael’s Catholic Church, Ngwoma Obube.

ABUJA—Less than a week after the defection of foundation members of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, including Professors Tunde Adeniran and Jerry Gana to Social Democratic Party, SDP; another chieftain of the party, Professor Taoheed Adedoja has approached a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, seeking an accelerated hearing of the suit he filed against the election of Prince Uche Secondus as the national chairman of the party.

The argument of the “spokesman of killer herdsmen” is akin to saying that the Federal Government should first ensure that all citizens are in a position to satisfy their needs before the EFCC can prosecute anybody for corruption!

ILORIN—A chieftain of Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria, IPMAN, in Kwara State, Alhaji Abdulkareem Sanni, has sued the Inspector General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, over the sale of his 1,000 litres of petrol and detention of his staff, asked for N10.5 million compensation.

FORMER President Olusegun Obasanjo has disclosed that one of his major regrets he had in life was the early demise of his parents, who he said did not live to reap the fruits of their labour.

ABUJA— FORMER Federal Commissioner for Information and South-South Leader, Chief Edwin Clark, has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to urgently suspend all democratic institutions in Adamawa, Borno and Yobe states, declare a state of emergency in the states to allow for full military control.

THE N744 million under recovery or fuel subsidy currently incurred by Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, is set to drop as the landing cost has already fallen from N171 per litre to N166 per litre.