Power firms now free to fix tariffs – NERC

                                                                                    Chairman, NERC, Dr Sam Amadi

Electricity distribution companies can now set their own tariffs based on the cost of operating in their various locations, the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission has said.

Although such will be subject to approval by the commission, NERC stated that the Discos would have to interface with their customers before presenting the tariffs to the regulator.

The Chairman, NERC, Dr. Sam Amadi, said this in Abuja on Wednesday at the end of the regular monthly meeting that the commission often holds with the power generation and distribution companies and the Transmission Company of Nigeria.

Amadi stated that the commission had in the past allowed the Discos to hold consultations with their customers on issues pertaining to tariffs, but noted that this time, it would be the duty of the companies to set the tariffs and not that of NERC.

APC to ratify Buhari’s ministerial list

                                                                     Maj. Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd.)

The leadership of the All Progressives Congress will ratify the list of persons to be appointed into the Federal Executive Council before presentation to the National Assembly.

It was learnt in Abuja on Wednesday that party leaders were seeking to restore the party supremacy which some alleged was lost during the 16 years that the Peoples Democratic Party held sway.

A prominent northern leader of the party, who pleaded for anonymity because of the sensitivity of the issue, said the APC was working to avoid the pitfalls which led to the collapse of the PDP.

He said, “We are looking at a situation where the party will direct the affairs of government in line with our manifesto. Recall that this was largely the case during the second republic.

Court refuses to stop Fayose’s impeachment

                                                                 Ekiti State Governor Ayodele Fayose

Ekiti State Governor Ayodele Fayose and his deputy, Kolapo Olusola, have raced to a Federal High Court in Abuja to stop the 19 All Progressives Congress members of the state House of Assembly from impeaching them.

But they met a brick wall as the judge, Justice Ahmed Mohammed, turned down their request and granted only the prayers contained in their ex parte application relating to the service of the court processes on the defendants.

Fayose and Olusola, in the ex parte application, asked for an interim order stopping   the impeachment notice served on them and the moves to remove them from office.

Rather than granting the prayers for interim injunction, Justice Mohammed ordered the defendants in the suit, including the Speaker of the House, Adewale Omirin, and the Chief Judge of the state, Justice Ayodeji Daramola, to appear in his court on April 16.

Nanny absconds with three kids one day after employment

                                                                                               The missing children

The Orekoya family on Lawanson Road, Surulere, Lagos State says, presently, it has no reason to be happy.

This is because a nanny employed on March 7 by the household disappeared with three children a day after she was employed.

The names of the missing children are Aderomola, (11 months), Adedamola (4 years) and Demola (6 years).

The nanny, Mary Akinloye, a 23-year-old indigene of Ibadan, Oyo State, was said to have been contracted via OLX, an online sales portal.

The children’s mother, Adebisi, told PUNCH Metro that Akinloye looked older than her age and that her claim that she was an indigene of Oyo State was questionable because of her accent.

She explained that the family had a nanny, who suddenly stopped coming to work after observing her annual leave.

Kim Kardashian West may have to resort to surrogacy

                                                                                 Kim Kardashian West.

Kim Kardashian West may have to use a surrogate mother if she wants to have a second child.

The 34-year-old reality TV star - who gave birth to her first child North West in June 2013 - has a problem with her uterus which means she might not be able to carry another baby, and in the latest episode of Keeping Up With The Kardashians, Kim is told that a proposed operation to remove parts of her placenta that were still stuck to her uterus after her last birth would expose her to risks during her next pregnancy.

Fighting back tears, Kim says: "There is nothing more on this earth that I want more than to be pregnant again and to go through that experience, I would pay any amount of money to have that."

"Surrogacy is really scary for me, I don't want one, I don't want that to be my reality.