Abuja Media Circle

After APC’s choice, Yahaya Bello was sworn in last month as the executive Governor of Kogi State, he had ruled the State these past days without a deputy.  However that came to an end yesterday, Tuesday, 9 th  of February, 2016 when the Kogi State House of Assembly approved the nomination of a former Deputy Speaker of the State House of assembly, Mr Simeon Achuba, as the state’s deputy governor. The approval was immediately followed by Achuba’s swearing-in behind closed doors without wasting time. Journalists who had rushed to the Banquet Hall of the Government House, the venue of the inauguration to cover the historical event were all shocked as they were barred from covering it. Curiously the Special Adviser to the Governor on Media, Mallam Abdulmalik Abdulkareem, and the Chief Press Secretary, Mr. Kingsley Fanwo, who could have helped the helpless journalists were nowhere to be found.

Hike in electricity tariff ‘painful pill’ Nigerians have to swallow –  Fashola The Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Mr. Babatunde Fashola, SAN, has noted that the increase in electricity tariffs is the first major policy the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari is coming up with, describing same as “a painful pill,” which consumers have to “swallow.” Fashola disclosed this Monday on the sidelines of the second monthly sectoral meeting with stakeholders in the power sector in Lagos, where he also inspected some projects at the Alagbon Transmission and Distribution Complex. Fashola’s comments came at a time Nigerian workers under the aegis of the Nigerian Labour Congress, NLC, Trade Union Congress, TUC, joined by Civil Society Organizations embarked on peaceful protests against the policy which has grounded commercial activities in several cities in the country. According to him, “Importantly, I understand that people who have been disappointed over a long time...