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The Federal Government on Monday sacked three key Power Holding Company of Nigeria, PHCN, officials as the government got desperate to reverse the slide in electricity supply. Those affected are the Chief Executive Officer, CEO, Transmission Company of Nigeria, TCN, Mr. Akinwumi Bada; Uzoma Achinanya, an engineer and former Market Operator and Mr Olusoga Muyiwa, Executive Director of Human Resources ...

A 27-year old woman (name withheld) was allegedly abducted and gang-raped by ten men in a hotel at Club 21, Ijegun, Satillite Town, Lagos, Nigeria. They allegedly tore her clothes and pant and debased her by inserting their fingers into her private part before they raped her one after the other. She sustained serious injury in her private part as ...

(AFP) – Senegal’s new president Macky Sall, 50, was sworn in on Monday after a crushing election victory over outgoing leader Abdoulaye Wade and a transfer of power hailed as an example of democracy on the continent. Sall swore to “observe and enforce the constitution” while defending the “territorial integrity” of his country, at a ceremony in the gardens of ...

President Goodluck Jonathan has come under a hailstorm of criticisms for accepting a newly designed and constructed church in his hometown, Otuoke, Bayelsa State, donated to him by Italian construction firm, Gitto, in breach of federal code of conduct for public officers. The Abuja-based Gitto is involved as a key bidder for multiple government construction contracts, and it currently handles ...

Going by the information reaching our desk,star hip hop cum R n B singer Innocent Ujah Idibia popularly called Tuface is very serious with his marriage proposal to his heartthrob,actress Annie Macaulay. Despite being together with Annie almost all the time since February when the proposal took people unawares, the Implication crooner is candidly moving towards making the statement “Yes ...