Day: February 17, 2021

BREAKING Nigerian Power grid collapses, plunges Lagos, others into darkness

Aliyu Aliyu

    The Nigerian electricity transmission system also known as the National grid collapsed on Wednesday plunging the whole of Lagos, commercial capital, and major cities across the country into darkness. Though the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) was silent on the incident, Power utilìty companies in Lagos, Eko Electricity Distribution Company (EKEDC) and Ikeja Electric, confirmed the collapse in separate tweets. Spolesperson for TCN, Ndid Mbah, did not pick calls made to her number, she did not also respond to a text message seeking clarification on the grid collapse.…

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BREAKING:COVID-19 kills Zanzibar’s Vice President

Aoko Benjamin

  Hospitalised for three weeks, the Vice President of Zanzibar, an East African semi-autonomous Island, which has played down news about COVID-19 pandemic, died after suffering the dreaded virus.   The first vice president of Zanzibar, Seif Sharif Hamad, who led the island’s opposition for three decades, died Wednesday, the president said, after he had been hospitalised for over three weeks with coronavirus. Tanzania and its semi-autonomous island Zanzibar have played down the threat of the virus, which President John Magufuli claims has been fended off by prayer. However, Hamad’s…

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Theft: Why we Introduced Incentives for Whistle-blowers – Ikeja Electric

Gbenga Adeoti

  One of the Nigeria’s power utility firms, the Ikeja Electric (IE) Plc, said it has introduced incentives for those willing to expose energy thieves within its network as a part of the Disco’s effort to curtail incidence of energy theft. IE said for established cases of energy theft, the whistle-blower would be rewarded from the reconnection penalty paid by the culprit in accordance with the fees stipulated in the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission’s (NERC) Order on Unauthorised Access to Electricity Supply, Meter Tampering and Bypass for non-maximum demand and…

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Nigeria’s Petrol Price Hits N170 per litre

Tade Salako

The Price of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) also known as petrol has hit N170 per litres in Lagos, Nigeria’s commercial capital. Filling stations in the city as well as in the neighbouring Ogun state, according to checks by Platforms Africa, increased the pump price of petrol to as much as N170 per litre on Tuesday from N162 per litre. It was gathered that this is as a result of the supply shortage facing private depots in Apapa. Some of the stations were Capital Oil and Gas, Fatgbems and Amo Oil, all…

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How Bandits Abducted Dozens of Nigeria’s School Pupils in Night Raid

Aliyu Aliyu

  The daredevil bandits, in the middle of the night, stormed the School’s premises, which has over 1000 pupils, overpowered the security guard, before whisking away the students at gunpoint.   Details have emerged on how Armed bandits, in a midnight raid, abducted dozens of pupils at Government Science College (GSC) Kagara, in Niger State. North-central Nigeria. The bandits in military uniforms, stormed the school premises which has close to 1000 students on Tuesday night, an Eyewitness account showed. It added that the bandits overpowered the security guard, before whisking…

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