The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) recently held a public consultation in Abuja and across the states to get views of electricity consumers on the proposed capping of estimated billing for unmetered customers. Read more: https://www.dailytrust.com.ng/estimated-billing-capping-victory-for-discos-unmetered-customers.html
In the first quarter of 2019, 16 residents of Gosa, along Abuja Airport Road, lost their lives while crossing the street to charge their phones in neighbouring communities. Read more: https://www.dailytrust.com.ng/70-years-of-darkness.html
The Federal Government and Siemens AG recently signed a six-year roadmap agreement for developing the power sector in Nigeria with a target of 11,000 megawatts (MW) by 2023. Read more: https://www.dailytrust.com.ng/many-unanswered-questions-trail-fg-siemens-electricity-pact.html
Leading editors from the Philippines, Kenya and Nigeria have joined the Executive Board of the International Press Institute (IPI), a global network of editors, media executives and leading journalists for press freedom. The new members are Maria Ressa, CEO and…
The Sokoto independent electricity project has stalled for 11 years despite gulping more than four billion naira. Read more: https://www.dailytrust.com.ng/after-gulping-billions-sokoto-power-project-stalls-for-11-years.html
If corruption was an issue of the presence of individual ‘rotten apples’ in the state, it would suffice to arrest such individuals to cleanse the system. That it is not so proves the story of the steel plant of Ajaokuta,…
Bauchi State Governor, Senator Bala Abdulkadir Mohammed has threatened to prosecute the former chairman of the State Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB), Professor Yahaya Ibrahim Yero over alleged last minute award of contracts. Read more: https://www.dailytrust.com.ng/governor-bala-to-prosecute-ex-subeb-chairman.html
Vice President Yemi Osinbajo in 2016 launched the National Home Grown School Feeding Programme aimed at providing children of Primary 1 to 3 free school meals with food procured from local smallholder farmers. Read more: https://www.dailytrust.com.ng/thrills-kicks-of-nigerias-school-feeding-programme.html
Zannuwa Junior Secondary School and Dawaki Primary School are twin schools that share the same building on shifts. The two schools located in Bauchi metropolis have a combined student population of about 4,000, occupying three blocks of two classrooms. Read…
Basic infrastructure at the basic level of education in some villages and rural areas in Kano State are in a state of total decay. Read more: https://www.dailytrust.com.ng/how-infrastructural-decay-affects-basic-education-in-rural-kano.html
