Disconnect customers who reject prepaid meters – NERC tells distribution company

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The Nigeria Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) has given electricity distribution companies the permission to disconnect customers who refused to be metered, according to the Jos Electricity Distribution Company (JEDC). Its Managing Director, Alhaji Modibo Gidado, disclosed this on Wednesday in Jos, at a customers’ consultative focum. He said that the meters were being installed to minimise electricity theft and ensure that electricity consumed was paid for. The Managing Director, who was represented by Mr Verr Jirbo, the Executive Director (marketing), particularly warned customers in the four states covered by the…

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World Teachers Day: Nigerian teachers should be paid before lawmakers – Senator Utazi

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As teachers are being celebrated globally today, Senator representing Enugu North Senatorial district, Chukwuka Utazi,, has maintained that teachers in Nigeria should be paid before lawmakers and other public servants. Speaking through order 43 of Senate rules, the lawmaker decried the pathetic condition of Nigerian teachers, saying that nobody wants to take to teaching profession anymore. He lashed at how Nigeria elites chase teachers around the globe by spending so much money in sending their wards abroad, leaving teachers in Nigeria with difficulties. “Mr. President, distinguished colleagues, I am saying…

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I’m a ‘better coach’ at Man United than anywhere else – Mourinho

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Manchester United manager, Jose Mourinho, has disclosed that he is “a much better coach” at United than he was at Chelsea or Real Madrid.   Mourinho was appointed the Red Devils manager in summer 2016, and delivered three trophies in his first season. United have started their campaign in much better form this season, winning six and drawing one of their league games. Mourinho believes his control of his emotions has helped him become a better coach than at any other point in his career. “I am a much better…

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Nigeria vs Zambia: Rohr reveals country he wants to defeat at 2018 World Cup

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Head coach of the Super Eagles, Gernot Rohr, has admitted he wants to meet his home country, Germany, in the 2018 World Cup and defeat them. Rohr is very close to qualifying Nigeria for the tournament in Russia, as the team only needs to beat Zambia this weekend at home, to go through as Group B winners. Speaking to newsmen in Uyo on Wednesday, Rohr also opened up on what it was like coaching the likes of Zinedine Zidane, Bixente Lizarazu and Christopher Dugarry at Bordeauzx. “It’s very important for…

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Women not equal with men – Tiwa Savage

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Nigeria Pop star, Tiwa Savage has expressed her opinion on ‘gender discrimination’ by saying that she does not think men and women are the same. The Mavin Records diva made the submission during a chat on “The Midday Show” with The Beat FM’s Tolu ‘Toolz’ Oniru who engaged her in a discussion on the subject. The Award winning star acknowledged that women in all societies often have to exert a lot of energy into their exceptional achievements. For her, powerful women like Oprah Winfrey and Mo Abudu represent a category…

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Western Digital launches 14TB enterprise hard drive for big data

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Western Digital is raising the enterprise hard drive stakes once again with the announcement of a 14 TB 3.5” hard drive. The HGST branded Ultrastar Hs14 uses fourth generation HelioSeal and second generation host-managed SMR (shingled magnetic recording) to enable a 14 TB drive that is just as fast as its smaller capacity enterprise predecessors despite the impressive 1034 Gb/sq in areal density. Western Digital claims the new hard drive offers up 40% more capacity and twice the sequential write performance of its previous SMR drives. The 3.5” SMR hard drive comes in…

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Farmers to sell rice at N6,000 per bag

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The Rice Farmers Association of Nigeria (RIFAN) says it will reduce the price of locally produced rice from N18,000 per 50kg. bag to N6,000 within the next few months. This was disclosed in Abuja on Wednesday by Alhaji Aminu Goronyo, the National President of Rice Farmers Aassociation of Nigeria (RIFAN), during a meeting with Rice Processors Association of Nigeria (RIPAN) and the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Chief Audu Ogbeh. Goronyo said that although RIFAN and RIPAN had agreed to fix the current price of 50 kg. bag of…

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Two reps members decamp from PDP to APC

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Two House of Representatives members on Thursday cross-carpeted from the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, to the All Progressives Congress, APC. The lawmakers are Zaphaniah Gisalo representing Abuja Municipal Area Council/Buari and another member, Mr. Yusuf Tijani from Okene/Ogori-Magogo federal constituency of Kogi State. Both lawmakers cross carpeted on the floor of the House amid wide protest from PDP lawmakers. Both lawmakers, in their letter to the House attributed their defection to division in the various state chapters of their party. Reacting to the defection, the Minority Whip of the House,…

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October 1 and the torment of memory

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Forget the rose-scented official statistics, the sweet words of the establishment. There can be no procedure to tracking Nigeria’s progress graph more efficiently, more intimately than a gesture as ordinary as dusting up old copies of newspapers or journals to find just how much of yesterday’s promises were eventually delivered and the gradient to which current lamentations in the land bear resonance with the cry of yester-years. The first likely surprise on that excursion into the past: Not a few of yesterday’s heroes would have dramatically morphed into today’s villains,…

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Bayern appoints Jupp Heynckes as new head coach

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Bundesliga giant Bayern Munich has named Jupp Heynckes as head coach until the end of the 2017/18 season following the sack of Carlo Ancelotti last week. The German champion made the announcement on their website, on Thursday. The 72-year-old retired from football following the 2012/13 season, in which he led the Bavarians to an unprecedented treble of Bundesliga, DFB Cup and UEFA Champions League titles. Heynckes also bagged the FIFA World Coach of the Year award in 2013. Ancelotti was relieved of his duties in the wake of Bayern’s disappointing…

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