Abuja Media Circle

The Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, has stated the conditions that must be met for Nigerians to enjoy uninterrupted electricity supply. The minister, who spoke to journalists in Kaduna at the end of the second edition of the National Council on Power on Thursday, said unless hoodlums stopped vandalising gas pipelines, the epileptic power supply would persist. Stable electricity, according to him, will only be achievable when contractors execute power contracts properly. Fashola noted that host communities of electricity assets must also understand that they must make sacrifices so that the nation could benefit. This is just as the Kaduna State Governor, Mallam Nasir el-Rufai, called for proper restructuring of the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission to ensure viable power supply in the country. The governor said unless that was done, potential private investors would continue to shy away from investing in the power sector. El-Rufai lamented the poor r...

Fire has razed down no fewer than 44 shops at the popular Farm Centre GSM market in Kano metropolis on Friday. An Eyewitness and one of the shop owners said the incident happened around 5.30pm when most of traders had closed for business. According to the witness, the fire which destroyed phones and other valuables worth millions of Naira, was said to have been caused by a spark from a converter supplying power to some of the shops. The source said though no life was lost, but no fewer than 44 shops were destroyed by the inferno. This is the second time the market was gutted by fire in the last eight months.