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.

The General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG) Pastor Enoch Adeboye  today paid a condolence visit to the family of Mrs Mojisola Elisha Olawale, who was hacked to death in the early hours of Saturday  around Gbazango-West area of Kubwa. See more photos after the cut..

Justice A.I Allagoa of the Federal High Court in Owerri, has affirmed the election of Governor Okezie Ikpeazu of Abia State. Former governorship aspirant, Barr.  Friday  Nwosu also dragged Governor Okezie Ikpeazu to court over alleged forged tax certificates. However, the court ruled today that the plaintiff, (Nwosu) was unable to prove that the tax documents where forged and dismissed the matter. In a related development, an Abia State High Court in Osisioma granted a motion filed by Ikpeazu for extension of the order restraining the Chief Judge of Abia State, the President Abia State Customary Court of Appeal and any other judicial officer from swearing in Mr. Uche Ogah, as governor of the state. The order was extended to  18th July, 2016 .

Versatile Nigerian Producer / Singer, Prokassy debuts his self produced official single “Calm Down” under his new label, Eskimo Records. Eskimo records is a music label structured to give artistes chance to air their voice in a creative way in other to make a BIG impact in their immediate community and the world at large. Prokassy  came to the music scene with a hit song, "Showole" featuring Rayce. He however exploits a little bit of Afrobeat to create his own new rhythmic sound which encompasses this beautiful song “Calm Down” The Eskimo Records frontier also accompanies this audio with an outstanding Shalom Chikki directed visual interpretation of the hit single. The video was shot in Abuja, Nigeria. Without Further ado, Watch, Download and Enjoy “Calm Down” by Prokassy. AUDIO DOWNLOAD LINK: https://my.notjustok.com/track/download/id/107360 YOUTUBE LINK: https://youtu.be/n_jFBx7SPOw

    Ooni of Ife The Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi , says the loss of culture, values and tradition is responsible for the numerous challenges facing Africa as a continent. Ogunwusi said this while delivering the 2015/2016 annual lecture of the School of Postgraduate Studies of the University of Lagos , on Thursday. The theme of the lecture is: “Redefining the Role of Traditional Institutions for National Development”. According to him, African culture and tradition is gradually giving way to westernization in several aspects. He said that this, to a large extent, had impacted negatively on the people’s way of life. He explained that most of the things borrowed from the western culture had confused the thinking and way of life of Africans. “There is nothing wrong borrowing from another. But the truth is that such things that are borrowed need to be properly aligned and harmonized in such a way that it will not affect our own way of life. Before ...

The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) have filed a petition at the International Criminal Court (ICC) against eleven state governments in the country over their failure to pay salaries to their workers. The organization in the petition requested the Prosecutor, ICC, Mrs. Fatou Bensouda, to use her position to investigate allegations of collective punishment and crimes against humanity against tens of thousands of Nigerian workers as a result of non-payment of their salaries for several months by their state governments. The affected states are Bayelsa, Benue, Bauchi, Osun, Rivers, Oyo, Ekiti, Kwara, Kogi, Ondo, and Plateau states. In the petition dated July 7, 2016 and signed by SERAP Executive Director, Mr Adetokunbo Mumuni, the organisation expressed concern that non-payment of workers’ salaries by several state governments in the country has made life impossible to live for the workers and families. SERAP therefore urged the ICC prosecu...