Editorial

The Minister of power, works and housing, Babatunde Fashola has blamed the recent drastic drop in power supply in the country on lack of funds with which to pay for the supply of gas to power stations.

The United Nations has promised that it will do more for the Internally Displaced Persons in North Eastern Nigeria following the unfortunate accidental airstrike by a Nigerian Air Force Jet fighter that led to the death of over 200 people.

Justice Hussein Baba-Yusuf of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, high court has adjourned the corruption trial of former National Security Adviser, NSA, Sambo Dasuki, to March 16 and 17 for further hearing.

Billions of Naira are expended on the payment of outrageous pension benefits of former governors and their deputies in Nigeria, and these benefits are usually renewable after every three or four years.

Ten people have died and more than 50 wounded after a car bomb and gun attack at a hotel in the Somali capital Mogadishu, a senior minister has said.

Three people were confirmed dead in two suicide bomb attacks in Maiduguri on Wednesday morning.