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How solar power plants can boost electricity supply –Ex-ECN boss Tobi Aworinde Former Director-General of the Energy Commission of Nigeria, Prof Abubakar Sambo, has expressed support for the use of solar photovoltaics plants to increase electricity supply in the country. Sambo, who spoke at a media chat and project roadmap presentation of the Ashama 200MW Solar PV Power Plant, said for Nigeria to have a significant expansion of its electricity supply, there is the absolute need for the govern...

Forty-three-year-old Terhemen Anongo tells JOHN CHARLES how he dropped out as a 500 Level medical student at the University of Ibadan, Oyo State an...

Punch Newspapers Sections Sunday Nwakanma, Umuahia Governor Okezie Ikpeazu has described former President Olusegun Obasanjo as “Nigeria’s most authentic living statesman whose life’s odyssey has become an invaluable source of history.” Ikpeazu stated this in a warm birthday message to Obasanjo on his 84th birthday on Friday, noting that the former president lived for Nigeria and gave the best of his years to the sustenance of the unity and democratic development of the country. The gove...

Punch Newspapers Sections Abiodun Nejo, Ado Ekiti Residents of Isaba Ekiti in the Ikole Council area of Ekiti State, on Saturday, protested the killing of two farmers by suspected Fulani herdsmen on Friday. The angry residents, comprising youths, women and the aged chanted war songs, made bonfires and rained curses on the killers of the two farmers just as vehicular and commercial activities were affected for a greater part of Saturday while major roads in the community were blocked by the prot...

Maiharaji Altine, Gusau Zamfara State Government has said it is awaiting actions the military would take on an Army officer arrested alongside his...

Punch Newspapers Sections Afeez Hanafi Residents of Ogungbesan Street, Coker, along the Oshodi-Apapa Expressway, Lagos, say they are under siege from robbers that have been terrorising the neighbourhood for about one month. The incidents took a turn for the worse on Tuesday when a security guard in one of the houses on the street, Garuba Muhammed, was shot dead by robbers who attacked a compound he manned. City Round learnt that the deceased’s younger brother, Musa, who lived with him, was re...

Punch Newspapers Sections Bola Bamigbola, Osogbo The Osun State Fire Service has said it suspected arson as fire razed Osogbo Artists Village, located near the popular Osun-Osogbo groove. The agency’s Public Relations Officer, Adekunle Ibrahim, in an interview with City Round said the firemen were contacted early on Friday, adding that immediately a distress call was received, firefighters were drafted to the scene. Ibrahim said from the available information, the fire started late Thursday ...

Commuters stranded as commercial bus drivers protest on Lagos-Badagry Expressway Published 6 March 2021 Commuters were on Saturday stranded along the Lagos-Badagry Expressway as drivers of commercial bus popularly known as ‘Danfo’ protested alleged extortion and constant manhandling by louts. No commercial shuttle was seen plying the roads while several commuters were spotted trekking. Only commercial motorcycles were seen having a field day bargaining and conveying passengers on an agreed ...

Kayode OyeroFour bandits and a soldier died when troops of Operation Hadarin Daji clashed with criminal elements on Thursday in Marina village,...

’Femi Asu with agency reportGhana is preparing to become first Liquefied Natural Gas importer in sub-Saharan Africa, with the terminal at the p...