BESIDES the fact that global economies are now private sector driven, the inefficiency in Nigeria’s power sector, occasioned by actions and inactions of the Federal Government and civil servants, necessitated for the ongoing reforms in the sector. But whether the reforms would bring about the needed efficiency in the generation and distribution of electricity depends on how well some contentious issues regarding the liquidation of Power Holding Company,PHCN, are resolved. CHARLES KUMOLU reports.

Last week would probably go down as the busiest for officials of Nigeria’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, going by the heightened level of international meetings it undertook, in the wake of the most deadly attack by the Islamist sect, Boko Haram, on the ancient city of Kano.

Few minutes after a bomb exploded at the offices of the AIG, Zone 1, in Kano, the Commissioner of Police, Alhaji Ibrahim Idris, braved the odds and traveled almost five kilometres to the scene of the incident on a fact-finding mission.

Major Hamza al-Mustapha, former chief security officer to the late General Sani Abacha, and a co-accused to know fate over the killing of the late Kudirat Abiola. Twelve years ago when they were arraigned before a Lagos State High Court sitting in Ikeja over alleged complicity in the murder of Alhaja Kuditrat Abiola, the wife of the billionaire businessman cum politician, Bashorun M.K.O. Abiola, it appeared that judgment in the case will not come.

The federal government may have set the path to tackling the menance of Boko Haram after the sect has carried out series of terrorist attacks in the country, killing scores of Nigerians with several millions of property destroyed. The group’s deadliest attacks occurred recently in Kano and Bauchi States where over 200 people were killed.