Prepare to pay more for electricity – FG

ACTING Director-General, Bureau of Public Enterprises (BPE), Mr Benjamin Ezra Dikki, has advised electricity consumers in Nigeria to be prepared for increased electricity tariff. This is just as the Managing Director of CMEC, one of the preferred bidders in the privatisation exercise of unbundled Power Holding Company of Nigeria (PHCN) successor companies, Mrs Heather Onoh, said it would take the company six months to rehabilitate… Read more

FG pays N384billion entitlements of PHCN staff

The Federal Government has announced the payment of N384billion for all outstanding entitlements of staff of the Power Holding Company of Nigeria (PHCN). The Minister of Labour, Emeka Wogu who briefed alongside the minster of Power, Chinedu Nebo and the Special Adviser of the President on Media and Publicity Dr. Rueben Abati, told journalist at a briefing after the Federal Executive Council Meeting at the… Read more

Odi Killings: Court Orders FG to Pay Community N37.6 Billion

A Federal High Court sitting in Port Harcourt, has given the Federal Government twenty-one days to pay a mandatory N37.6 billion to Odi community in Kolokuma/Opokuma Local Government Area of Bayelsa State, as compensation for a military invasion 13 years ago. It will be recalled that on November 20, 1999 former president, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo ordered the invasion of Odi community, when a group of… Read more