Day: January 25, 2023

Electricity utility firms otherwise known as the DisCos have bemoaned low power supply from generating companies, which has led to load shedding. The country has been experiencing low power supply for some weeks, with many areas getting electricity supply for only an hour per day. The DisCos have blamed GenCos for the significant drop in

The Lekki Port LFTZ Enterprise Limited has said the coming onstream of the Lekki Deep seaport would accelerate growth in Nigeria’s maritime traffic. The Managing Director of LPLEL, Mr Du Ruogang, said this to selected journalists at the inauguration of the Lekki Deep seaport at Ibeju-Lekki, Lagos State. He said that the port would facilitate

The price of Bitcoin is expected to peak at $29,095 in 2023 before ending the year at $26,844, a new report from Finder has stated. The report also said that some of its panelists predicted a 2023 low of $13,067 for the digital currency. While the price of BTC is expected to rise in 2023,

The cost of government Internet shutdowns rose by 324.82 per cent from $5.6bn in 2021 to $23.79bn in 2022, according to the ‘Global Cost of Internet Shutdowns’ report. The report stated that there were 114 major deliberate Internet outages in 23 countries in 2022. It stated that the total hours of government internet disruptions rose

Himel has bagged the Global Brand Awards at an annual event held by Global Brands Magazine, an international publication headquartered in the UK. Himel won the award for the ‘Most Reliable Value-Engineered Electrical Products Brand, MENA’. Speaking on the success, Global Head, Himel Shrinivas Chebbi, said the company was evaluated based on its global footprint,

The Katsina State Government has declared Thursday and Friday as public holidays for the state’s civil servants. The holidays are to enable the civil servants to welcome the President, Major-General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), who will be on a two-day official visit to the state from Thursday. A statement by the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Information,

The Lagos State Police Command has arraigned three women for allegedly engaging in a public fight that resulted in one of them sustaining an injury in the Oshodi area of the state. The defendants, Amimat Adebayo, 25; Ahmed Shukurah, 24; and Ahmed Jumoke, 28; were arraigned on Wednesday before Magistrate L.A. Owolabi of the Ikeja

A woman, Malama Khadija, has dissolved her marriage and married a yet-to-be-identified suitor of her daughter in the Rano Local Government Area of Kano State. PUNCH Metro gathered during a live broadcast from a local radio station that Khadija made the decision to marry the boyfriend of her daughter, Aisha, because she rejected his proposal.

THE January 15 murder of a Catholic priest, Isaac Achi, in Paikoro, Niger State, after terrorists burnt him to death by setting fire to the parish rectory, is the latest tragic incident in a series of killings of Christian clerics by Islamic jihadists across the country. According to a statement by the Catholic Diocese of

In 1996, when Kenneth Nnebue’s NEK Pictures released Part 2 of the movie Glamour Girls, I wrote a piece warning Nigeria’s moralist army that they had seen nothing. Criticisms of the movie then revolved around the scene where Zach Orji and Eucharia Anunobi, both of whom now wear religious collars, were in the bathroom. Nigerians