By Ediri Ejoh Average Nigeria’s unutilized power generation has increased year-on-year, YoY, to 3,008.18 Megawatts, MW in 2021, from 1,030.80 MW in 2013, indicating an increase of 291 per cent in the past eight years, due mainly to lack of infrastructure. This showed that adequate investment has not been made over the years to transmit […]

By Ike Uchechukwu – Calabar The Cross River State Police Command has arrested a middle-aged man, Godswill Ezekiel Ugbe for allegedly attempting to sell his employer’s car for a paltry 350,000 naira in Calabar. The suspect, who was arrested by the Anti Kidnapping and Cultism Squad AKCS, while driving the car to the potential buyer […]

By Ikechukwu Nnochiri – Abuja Mr Ifeanyi Ejiofor, lead counsel to the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu, on Tuesday, berated the Department of State Services, DSS, for granting a former Governor of Abia State, Orji Uzor Kalu, private access to his client in detention. Ejiofor, who described Kalu’s visit […]

The Akwa Ibom Command of National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), says it has secured convictions for 35 out of the 353 drug suspects arrested in the last five months. Mrs Obot Bassey, the state NDLEA Commander, disclosed this when she spoke with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Uyo on Tuesday. Bassey said […]

Alarmed by a possible COVID-19 4th wave, the Nigerian Infectious Diseases Society, NIDS, on Tuesday urged the Federal government to ramp up the stock of COVID-19 vaccines available in the country as well as consider the immediate implementation of booster doses for fully vaccinated adults