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The Federal High Court in Lagos on Wednesday convicted and sentenced a 45-year-old businesswoman, Josephine Okpai, to 200 hours of community service for unlawful dealing in 1.3kg of cannabis sativa. Also sentenced was a 44-year-old fashion designer, Waheed Olayiwola, who bagged 250 hours of community service for selling 145kg of hard drugs. While pleading for […]
The average ‘Band A’ customer in Nigeria will now need as much as N170,000 for electricity per month, instead of the average of N50,000 that they were paying before now. This follows the approval of a 240 per cent increase in the tariff of ‘Band A’ power customers from N66 per kilowatt hour (KwH) to […]
The Nigeria Police Force said its officers will no longer torture suspects whenever they are arrested and held in the custody. The Force Public Relations Officer, ACP Muyiwa Adejobi stated this in an interview on Channels Television on Tuesday. His comment comes after the report of arrest of some suspected killers of the Divisional Police […]
In a move sparking immediate backlash, the Nigerian government, through the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC), announced a significant increase in electricity tariffs for Band A customers. This category, representing roughly 15% of the nation’s power users and promised up to 20 hours of daily supply, will now pay N225 per kilowatt-hour (kWh), a staggering 240% jump from […]
The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) has said that with the newly approved tariffs, subsidies for 2024 are expected to reduce by about N1.14 trillion. According to a statement issued by the management of the Commission on Wednesday, the tariff review was in furtherance of the Federal government’s realignment of the subsidy regime. The Commission, in January […]
