Tag: Enugu

NERC Slams N628.03m Fine On Eight DisCos + FULL LIST

Ganiyu Amodu

The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) has fined Abuja, Eko, Enugu, Ikeja, Jos, Kaduna, Kano, and Yola Electricity Distribution Companies the sum of N628.03million for non-compliance with the capping of estimated billing for unmetered customers. The commission conveyed the sanction in a release on Thursday. It explained that the action was sequel to a review of billing practices between July and September 2024, which revealed that the affected DisCos failed to adhere to monthly energy caps issued by NERC. The fines represent five per cent of the gross overbilling during…

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Enugu, Oyo Get Six DIGs, AIG, CPs + FULL LIST

Ganiyu Amodu

The Police Service Commission has approved the appointment of six Deputy Inspectors General of Police, promotion of a Commissioner of Police to Assistant Inspector General of Police, and CP for Oyo and Enugu States Commands. The appointments by the PSC were contained in a statement issued by its Head of Press and Public Relations, Ikechukwu Ani, on Tuesday. According to the statement, the new Deputy Inspectors General of Police include Sadiq Idiris Abubakar, the Commandant, Police Academy, Wudil, Kano, Kano State, who was a former Commissioner of Police, Federal Capital…

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How Enugu Govt Awarded N100bn Contract To 4 Day-Old Company

Ganiyu Amodu

. “We smell a rat,” Labour Party speaks on what it knew about deals   The Enugu State chapter of the Labour Party (LP) has called on Nigeria’s anticorruption agencies to investigate the agriculture partnership agreement recently signed between the Enugu State Government and Pragmatic Farms Limited alleging that the transaction might be a conduit to siphon the resources of the state. The party, in a statement on Sunday signed by its Chairman, Comrade Casmir Uchenna Agbo, and Publicity Secretary, Onuora Odo, questioned the propriety of the transaction, pointing out…

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UTME: Meet Lotanna Azuokeke, Candidate Who Scored 99 Over 100 in Maths

ADEOLA YUSUF

Master Lotanna Azuokeke, a student of Bishop Otubelu Juniorate, Trans Ekulu, Enugu, scored 99 marks in Mathematics in the just-concluded Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME). Azuokeke, 15, scored a total of 337 marks in the examination, according to a statement by Dr Chiwuike Uba, Media Adviser to the Bishop of the Diocese of Nike (Anglican Communion), the Founder of the school. READ ALSO: 2023 WASSCE Starts Monday, May 8 – WAEC Releases Timetable Strike: Nigerian Govt’s Threat Annoying, Resident Doctors Fire Back Six Ways to Avoid Being Kidnapped in Nigeria…

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3-day Thunderstorms, hazy weather To Rock Lagos, Abuja, Others – NiMet

Dawud Rabiu

Vital weather information about your state and 35 other Nigerian states in the next three days, according to NiMet   The Nigerian Meteorological Agency, NiMet, outlook, released on Saturday in Abuja, has predicted sunny and hazy atmosphere from Sunday to Tuesday across the country. “Except southern parts of Adamawa, southern Kaduna and Taraba state where isolated thunderstorm are expected during the afternoon and evening hours, cloudy skies with intervals of sunshine should prevail over the North central states during the morning. “Later in the day, isolated thunderstorms are anticipated over…

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Another INEC headquarters on fire, 4th case in 2 weeks

Precious Ibekwe

(Photo above: File copy of another fire incident earlier at a Local Govt of INEC in Enugu State) The headquarters of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INECINEC Office set ablaze, 3rd time in 12 Days + PHOTOS) in Enugu State, was on Sunday night gutted by fire barely one week after the office in Obollo-Afor, Udenu was razed. This, according to data compiled by Platforms Africa, is the fourth case of fire at INEC office in the last two weeks. READ ALSO: INEC Office set ablaze, 3rd time in 12 Days + PHOTOS How Hoodlums Set…

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