THE Federal Government, yesterday, said it was ready to complete the unbundling of the Power Holding Company of Nigeria, PHCN, as part of efforts to revamp the company and enable it to provide efficient service to consumers.

THE Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, may release the timetable for 2011 elections this week following the signing of Electoral Act by President Goodluck Jonathan last Friday.

The new record by the indigenous firm has vindicated those making case for local content, who had argued that indigenous contractors could do better than the foreign contractors and reduce capital flight.

The ambition of Obarisi Ovie Omo-Agege, the gubernatorial aspirant of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Delta State, received a boost, weekend, with his endorsement by the former gubernatorial candidate of Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, in the state in the 2007 polls, Chief Peter Okocha, who recently returned to the PDP, with his group.

A TOTAL of 174 open market stalls as well as a rehabilitated science laboratory valued at over N100 million built by the NNPC/Pan Ocean Oil Corporation Joint Venture in Edo and Delta States have been handed over to the benefitting communities.