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The Federal Government has announced the reduction in electricity tariff by half. Chairman of the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission, Sam Amadi, who made the announcement in Abuja today March 17th, said after a review of the tariffs being paid by Nigerians, the commission agreed to slash it by half. The reduction takes effect from the end of March. He said the commission agreed to remove the Multi-year tariff order, MYTO 2.1 following multiple petitions and complains from Nigerians especially members of the Manufacturers Association of Nigeria who said inclusion of the MYTO 2.1 caused them to spend more on their businesses and in some cases loss of jobs. “The Commission also invited the Chief executive Officers of the distribution companies to the hearing to respond to the case of the consumer groups. Furthermore, the Commission reviewed the technical and financial assumption of MYTO 2.1. The review shows that the major underlying cause of the skyrocketing increase in the ...

This is so heart breaking. A promising young Silverbird staff, Aishat Mustapha has been killed. Aishat was murdered at her Ogudu, GRA home around 9.30pm on Saturday night. She was stabbed to death 11 times. No one knows why she was killed, and no one saw the killer(s). It’s just really sad. May her soul rest in peace.

President Goodluck Jonathan paid a secret visit to former Vice President Abubakar Atiku on Friday night to hold a meeting that lasted till the early hours of Saturday. Sources at the Presidency told SaharaReporters that Mr. Jonathan went to Mr. Atiku’s home with the aim of persuading the former VP to lead a so called interim government of national unity that the president has been covertly attempting to sell to numerous political figures in recent weeks.  One source said Mr. Jonathan and some hawkish members of his inner circle, including Petroleum Minister Diezani Alison-Madueke, First Lady Patience Jonathan, Governors Olusegun Mimiko and Ayo Fayose of Ondo and Ekiti respectively, as well as senior presidential aide Doyin Okupe, have decided that handing over power to Muhammadu Buhari “is out of the question.” Several electoral monitoring groups are projecting that Mr. Buhari, a retired army general and the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), is ...

                            Idowu; The area | credits: Samson Folarin The police in Lagos State have arrested an Islamic cleric, Abdullahi Omobolaji, a.k.aAlfa, for allegedly having unlawful carnal knowledge of a 17-year-old teenager, Idowu (pseudonym), in the Agege area of the state. The incident happened on Bakare Lane where the victim lived with her mother and siblings. PUNCH Metro learnt that although Alfa lived in Abule Egba, he had a room apartment on Bakare Lane where he received clients, who seek him out for spiritual help. He was said to have taken advantage of the minor and slept with her many times, from November 2014 until the act was uncovered by the victim’s mother in March, 2015. When she confronted him, Alfa was said to have beaten up Idowu’s mother. While the scuffle was on, the matter was reported at the Isokoko Police Division by Idowu. The 40-year-old Ilorin, Kwara State indigene was subsequen...

Some twins are so identical they are like peas in a pod, others are fraternal twins who look different but you can tell they're siblings. These twin sisters are at the extreme of that. They 'couldn’t look more different if they tried'. Lucy, Aylmer, with white skin and straight ginger hair, and Maria Aylmer, with her thick curly hair and darker skin, were both born in January 1997. Thanks to a rare scientific quirk resulting from their mother and father's mixed-race pairing, they were both born with different coloured skin. Their mum Donna is half Jamaican while father Vince is white. But when they heard they were having twins, they could never have guessed that they would produce twins looking so different from each other. Blue-eyed Lucy, who lives in Gloucester with her family, said: "It was such a shock for her because things like skin colour don’t show up on scans before birth. "So she had no idea that we were so different. "When the midwi...

Video documents testimonies of our gallant soldiers actively engaged in the fight to retake the northeast from the grips of the boko haram insurgents. Video starts with a gallant soldier PVT Jeremiah pledging to die fighting for the country. I am here in Maiduguri to fight boko haram. I am not afraid of them that is why I am here. I have to fight today to save the future. I will fight and die for my country, he said. Another soldier Lt. Iorakpen added that they are more confident now as more and more equipments are been deployed to the northeast. I pray that God will continue to fight for them and protect them all.             

              Pictured is President Jonathan leading other men at the Aso Rock Chapel to sing a special song for Mothers for the Mother’s Day celebration. First Lady Dame Patience Jonathan was also at the service.  

She flew to an unknown destination via a private jet this morning.

The visit of the wife of President Goodluck Jonathan, Mrs. Patience Jonathan, to Edo State, was on Saturday disrupted when some men, suspected to be aggrieved youths of the Peoples Democratic Party, pulled down some banners bearing the image of the First Lady, at the Samuel Ogbemudia Stadium in Benin, the state capital. Mrs. Jonathan was in the state to drum support from Edo women for her husband’s re-election campaign. It was learnt that the men climbed the fence where the banners were placed and began to pull them down as soon as it was time for the First Lady to deliver her address. According to Punch , Irked by what they termed to be an attempt to mar the visit of the President’s wife, some youths and policemen dressed in branded T-shirts, bearing the Transformation Ambassadors of Nigeria logo, accosted the men. It was in the process of a brewing brawl that some policemen, drafted to the venue of the rally to provide security, whisked them away in a police vehicle. The state Pub...

                   Bey is proudly rocking Ankara yet again in new photos                                                                                 

           The 27 year old looked like a movie star in head-to-toe Barbie pink ensemble as she arrived for an appearance on Good Morning America in New York on Friday morning.                           Photo credit: Splash News

   The attention of the media office of Senator Abubakar Bukola Saraki has been drawn to a purported allegation by Peoples Democratic Party that Senator Bukola Saraki who is one of the leaders of All Progressives Congress and a crusader of change in Nigeria is sponsoring a "Dirty Love Triangle between President Jonathan, Patience and Deiziani. Senator Saraki will like to state categorically without any iota of doubt that he is not aware of any love triangle between the President and the two women in question and therefore has not been, and he is not going to be involved in anyway, manner or process of commissioning of such documentary. Senator Saraki has always centered all his argument on issues that affect the lives of Nigerians. Such issues include but not limited to unemployment, mismanagement of public funds, and non-implementation of the budgetary provisions just to name a few. These are the things that affect Nigerians and as a Senator of the Federal Republic these a...

Nigerian soldiers at the 33 Brigade of the Nigerian Army, today finalised the dislodgement and the clearing of Boko Haram insurgents in Lame/Burra forest,Bauchi. Here are the photos from the Boko Haram camp/jungle in the forest