The federal government has resumed the School Feeding Programme in Gombe state six months after its stoppage. A teacher in one of the affected schools had last week appealed to the government to resume the programme, saying that the stoppage…
The speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila, yesterday declared open, a public hearing of the House Ad hoc Committee constituted to investigate abandoned power projects and review Federal Government’s expenditure in the sector since 1999. Read more:
The Commercial Court in London, United Kingdom, yesterday granted Nigeria’s request to stay execution of a judgment which favoured Process and Industrial Developments (P&ID) to seize Nigeria’s assets worth $9.6bn over a contract scandal. Read more:
President Muhammadu Buhari said yesterday that the Process and Industrial Developments Limited (P&ID) contract with the Nigerian government was a scam aimed at cheating the country of billions of dollars. Read more:
Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has said the federal government has injected about N1.5 trillion intervention fund into the power sector in the last two years, even as frequent outage persists across the country. Read more:
Power cut is imminent across the country as 24 thermal power Generation Companies (GenCos) are mulling a force majeure action to quit business over a 0.75 percent ‘unregulated’ administrative charge for gas supply transactions being introduced by the Nigerian Bulk…
The 215-Megawatt (MW) Kudenda Thermal Power Plant in Kaduna State is yet to take off 10 years after contract for it was awarded. The non-take off of the plant, a project of the Federal Ministry of Power, is despite the…
Amidst prevailing liquidity crisis in the power sector, customers of the 11 Distribution Companies (DisCos) owe at least N65.9 billion energy debts for the first three months of 2019, records have shown. Read more:
It’s Tuesday morning, and pupils and teachers walk-in and out of Mamudo Primary School, obeying bell rings that command them to maximize their school hours. Amidst chats and shriek of pupils in Primary 3B, Halima Muhammed, 9, was sitting on…
The Minister of Power, Engr. Sale Mamman, Minister of State, Mr Goddy Jedy Agba and other officials of the Federal Ministry of Power, recently inspected the 40 megawatts (MW) Kashimbilla hydropower dam in Taraba State. Read more:
