The federal government has approved a downward review in electricity tariff for Band A customers(Those with a daily supply of minimum of 20 hours). Under the approved review, Band A customers who hitherto were charged N225/Kwh are now to pay N206.80/Kwh. The decision to crash the tariff may not be unconnected with public outcry over […]
Multi-Year Tariff Order (MYTO) for the Band “A” customers, the Nigerian Electricity Supply Initiative (NESI) seems to have beaten more than it can chew. Its regulator, the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) examined over 3,000 feeders and sifted out about 481 feeders to serve the 15 per cent of the customers who enjoy a minimum ...
•Akpabio and Ningi The Senate is set to recall Senator Abdul Ningi (PDP – Bauchi Central) from his three months suspension, it has been learnt. Senate President Godswill Akpabio disclosed this today while answering questions from reporters on arrival from the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) meeting in Geneva, Switzerland, reports The Nation. A...
•Nigerian Governors Forum Following the order by President Bola Tínubu for the full implementation of the Oronsaye report, especially as it pertains to cutting down the cost of governance, the state governors are under pressure to toe the same line. The pressure is coming from Civil Society Organizations, CSOs, who have challenged the state go...
The National Examinations Council (NECO) today succumbed to pressure from the lower chamber of the National Assembly and announced an indefinite postponement of the 2024 Staff Promotion Examination. The decision of the examination body to centralized the staff promotion examination earlier Scheduled to hold on February 14 and 15, 2024 in Minna...
There’s a mounting pressure on the federal government to make significant releases to clear the foreign airlines’ trapped funds amidst their threat to exit Nigeria. This is despite the release of $61.4m by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) last week as part of efforts to clear outstanding liabilities and bolster the foreign exchange market, [&...
•IGP Egbetokun Days to the November 11, 2023 off-season governorship polls in Imo, Bayelsa and Kogi states, the Inspector General of Police (IGP), Kayode Egbetokun, has announced the redeployment of the Commissioner of Police in Imo State, Mohammed Barde. “I am aware that there have been allegations on social media against the Commissioner of ...