Power: Kaduna, Afam investors get April 4 deadline

PHCN power station
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The 49 firms that have expressed interest in buying into two electricity firms carved out of the Power Holding Company of Nigeria Plc, Afam Power Plc and Kaduna Distribution Company Plc, must submit Request for Proposals by April 4, 2013 or they should forget taking over the companies.

FG to sell Omotosho power plant for $82m

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A subsidiary of the China Machinery Engineering Corporation, CMEC-Pacific, has been offered the Omotosho Power Plant at a price of $217.53m.

Awolowo, Tribune publisher, dies at 70

Publisher, African Newspapers of Nigeria Plc, the publishers of the Tribune newspapers, Chief Oluwole Awolowo, died in a United Kingdom hospital on Wednesday at the age of 70.

The President should care

While the so-called “faceless” suicide bombers kill unarmed Nigerians for no just cause, the President’s recent actions and utterances add more insults to the injuries caused by the explosions.

Police intercept bomb-laden car in Kano

Improvised Explosive Devices and other items recovered from a vehicle intercepted by security men in Kano...on Wednesday. INSET: The intercepted Volkswagen Golf car.
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Ribadu faults Jonathan, wants amnesty for Boko Haram

A former Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Mallam Nuhu Ribadu, has warned that the refusal of President Goodluck Jonathan to grant amnesty to terror group, Boko Haram, can plunge the country into another civil war.

2014 Qualifier: We must not disrespect Kenya – Mba

AFRICAN Cup of Nations hero, Sunday Mba going into today’s game against the Harambee Stars of Kenya has urged his team-mates not to disrespect their rivals in the 2014 World Cup qualifiers.

Can Rita Dominic make history again?

The stage is set again, and the topic currently dominating discourse in most quarters in the industry is the possibility of Rita Dominic writing her name in gold as the best actress in Africa.

Boko Haram: Police arrest 500 foreigners in Lagos

No fewer than, 500 nationals of some neighbouring countries resident in Lagos, were yesterday arrested by the state police command in connection with Thursday’s arrest of two Boko Haram suspects at Ijora area of the state.

Prof Chinua Achebe: Exit of literary giant

Turning in a widening gyre, the falcon could not hear the falconer, things fall apart and the center could not hold , mere anarchy is loosed upon the earth, that is the W. B. Yeats lines that announced the title of the famous book written by the Iroko of African and world literature Professor Chnualumogu Achebe, 82, who passed to the land of the spirits yesterday in Boston, Massachusetts.

Eucharia Anunobi partners Imo Govt.

In a bid to support the Rescue Mission agenda of Governor Anayo Rochas Okorocha’s led administration, Nollywood actress, Evangelist Eucharia Anunobi has shown interest of joining in partnership with the Imo State government and other well-meaning Imolites to make the State drive developmentally for the general purpose of all.