Britain could face a return to Seventies-style power rationing to prevent blackouts

The disturbing news came amid warnings that the country may not be producing enough energy to keep the lights on by 2015.
Offices and factories could be ‘bribed’ to close for up to four hours a day during the winter to prevent households losing power.

Blackout: Britain could face a return to Seventies-stye power rationing, energy regulator Ofgem has warned

In addition, nuclear power stations, which produced 26 per cent of Britain’s electricity when Labour was elected in 1997, now account for just 18 per cent.
Ministers say the previous government failed to protect our energy supply by commissioning replacements for ageing reactors.
Yesterday Danny Alexander, Chief Secretary to the Treasury, promised £10billion for a new plant at Hinkley Point in Somerset that could power five million homes.
French firm EDF had demanded government cash to put towards the £14billion reactor.

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32 dead as gunmen raid 3 villages in Plateau

About 32 people have been killed in three villages in Langtang South Local Government Area of Plateau State in an attack allegedly coordinated by suspected Fulani herdsmen.

The attackers allegedly invaded Bolgang, Karkashi and Magama villages on Wednesday morning, shooting indiscriminately.

They were said to have gone with motorbikes after those that tried to escape.

Some of those killed were said to be students writing their National Examinations Council, NECO, examinations, while several houses and vehicles were burnt.

It was learnt that the attack was launched from nearby Shikal village, where they reportedly gathered days earlier.

Majority of those killed at Magama were said to be the aged and children, while nine people were reported killed at Bolgang, which was completely razed.

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Adeboye, Suswam visit Suntai in New York

Convalescing governor of Taraba State, Mr. Danbaba Suntai is a living miracle and should be able to resume his duties very soon, Governor Gabriel Suswam of Benue State declared yesterday.

Governor Suswam also confirmed that Suntai spoke with Vice-President Namadi Sambo on Tuesday in his presence. Suswam visited Suntai in New York, United States where he is recuperating following last October’s air crash of a private plane that he was piloting.

He also confirmed that Pastor Enoch Adeboye, General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God also visited Suntai same Tuesday.

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Photo:Five-star CAVE hotel

An artist's view of what the finished cave hotel will look like. The 5-star underground resort is being built inside a 100-foot deep, water-filled abandoned quarry in China at the base of the Tianmenshan Mountain in the Songjiang District

 

The rest of the InterContinental Shimao hotel will be built into the mountainous landscape and guests will be able to do watersports on the lake and use the nearby cliffs for rock-climbing and bungee jumping

 

The five-star resort will have an aquarium with glass walls that look out onto a restaurant and guest rooms, a swimming pool and a sports centre, a banqueting hall and conference facilities

Four Boko Haram members wearing women clothes arrested in Gwange.

Residents of Gwange area in Maiduguri, the Borno State capital have restricted their women from going out in the evening, following reports that Boko Haram members have now resorted to disguising as women, putting on female dresses while perpetrating evils and using the same method as a means of escaping arrest by soldiers and vigilante youth in the area.

DailyPost gathered that, four Boko Haram members were arrested on Saturday in Gwange ward, wearing women’s clothing and trying to escape arrest as a result of pressure mounted on them in the area by the vigilante youth who have been seriously hunting for the sect members particularly in Gwange area of the city.

According to a resident of Gwange, who pleaded not to be mentioned, the sect members are also wearing female clothing to hide their weapons in order to go and commit evil. “They have been doing that for a long time according to one of them who was arrested last month in Gwange and since that time, so many of them have been arrested and handed over to the security.” He said.

Speaking on whether the soldiers are killing them, he said, “They have been arresting them, but killing them, we do not know, because the soldiers always carry them to the JTF headquarters.”

According to him, even those that were arrested with ‘hijab’ last week Saturday,were beaten up by youth and handed over to the military for further interrogation.

Police kill Bamigbetan’s kidnappers, arrest two.

Seven out of the nine suspected kidnappers who abducted Chairman of Ejigbo Local Government Development Area, Mr. Kehinde Bamgbetan recently were yesterday shot dead by the police.

Two other suspects have been arrested and are currently facing interrogation at the Special Anti Robbery Squad (SARS) Ikeja, Lagos.

Daily Sun gathered that the leader of the gang was a Chinese national whose mother is a Nigerian. The suspects met their waterloo after they had abducted an Indian and the police stormed their hideouts. The police were said to have condoned off the kidnappers camp in Agbara area of Ogun State for over 72 hours before the gun battle ensued between them and the law enforcement agents.

My mum told me to throw my cousin inside well —Teenage murder suspect

The story sounded bizarre and confounding but it is true. The discovery of the body of three-year-old Bose Olaniyi in a well in the neighbourhood has thrown the residents of Ilupeju-Isokan area of Akobo into mourning. But the most shocking aspect of the sad occurrence was that the suspect in this case is no other person than the deceased’s cousin, Rilwan Olaniyi, who confessed to have acted on the promptings of his mother to kill his cousin!

How could 14-year-old Rilwan, a Primary Six pupil, ever think of killing his little cousin? Crime Reports gathered that Mrs Bola Olaniyi and Mrs Morenike Olaniyi are two women married to two brothers. The former, who is Rilwan’s mother, is married to the elder of the two brothers and due to circumstances, the latter and her husband with their children started living in the house bulit by the elder brother.

SIM registration: Subscribers condemn unsolicited messages by operators.

Ten days to the end of the Subscriber Identity Module registration exercise in the country, telecoms subscribers are uncomfortable with the seemingly endless text messages by telecoms companies urging them to either register their SIMs or complete the registration process.

Many subscribers are pained by the messages because their SIM cards have already been registered.

The complaints, which cut across the mobile operators, intensified after the industry regulator, the Nigerian Communications Commission, said last month that unregistered SIM cards would be cut off from the telecommunications networks across the country come June 30 this year.

Some subscribers, who claimed to have registered their SIM cards many months ago, were also not left out in the message spree.

Those, who spoke to our correspondent, expressed worries over the delay by the telcos in sending such messages, especially those that had to do with updating data, when the deadline was just some days away.

Text messages sent to subscribers show a wide request by the telcos urging their subscribers to register their SIMs before June 30 to avoid being disconnected.

This format of messaging is common to all the Global System of Mobile telecommunication operators: Airtel, Etisalat, Globacom and MTN.

But MTN, in some of its messages, urged subscribers on its network to provide missing data spotted in the registration process.

The operator also promised to give a bonus credit of N400 to subscribers, who provided such updates.

2015: Jonathan ’ll divide Nigeria, says Fani-Kayode.

A former Minister of Aviation, Chief Femi Fani-Kayode, has alleged that President Goodluck Jonathan would attempt to split the country, if he does not win the 2015 general elections.

The former minister said the President has divided the Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF).

He said the interference of the Presidency in the internal affairs and the subsequent division of the NGF were part of a game plan and a “clear indication that should President Goodluck Jonathan lose next election, he will plot for the division of the country”.

Fani-Kayode, who addressed reporters yesterday in Minna, the Niger State capital, wondered why a loser of an election would declare himself the winner because he enjoyed the backing of the Presidency, thereby splitting the NGF.

Fani-Kayide expressed optimism that opposition parties would terminate the continued reign of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the next general elections.

The former minister, however, said the nation should prepare for a possible attempt to split the country when the PDP government fails at the poll.

He said: “It is only in Nigeria that a loser with the backing of the Presidency can declare himself the winner, leading to the splitting of NGF. This is a prerequisite for 2015. When the President is defeated, he will declare himself winner, the same way it happened in the NGF. He will try to split the country the same way he did to the NGF.”

Court Grants Lagos Speaker, Ikuforiji N1bn Bail

SPEAKER of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Adeyemi Ikuforiji and his Personal Assistant, Oyebode Atoyebi, have been re-arraigned by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) before Justice Ibrahim Buba of the Federal High Court, Lagos. They were re-arraigned over alleged involvement in money laundering to the tune of N338,801,442 from the state House of Assembly without going through a financial institution.

The offence is said to be contrary to Sections 18(a) of the Money Laundering (Prohibition) Act 2011 and punishable under Section 16(2)(b) of the same Act.

The duo, who were re-arraigned on an amended 54-count charge bordering on the offence, pleaded not guilty to the charge.

Shortly after the re-arraignment and their plea taken, counsel to the EFCC, Godwin Obla, intimated the court of the commission’s readiness to proceed with the trial of the case.

But counsel to the Speaker, Tayo Oyetibo (SAN), informed the court that the accused had earlier been granted bail on self-recognition by the former trial judge, Justice Okechukwu Okeke (rtd).

The Senior Advocate explained further that the personal assistant was granted bail, with the Clerk of the House standing as surety and, therefore, prayed the judge to consider varying the terms of bail initially granted by the former trial court, which had been perfected.

Oyetibo stated further that since the accused were granted bail by the former trial court, they have been consistently present in court except at the last adjourned date on the matter when they were not served.

Also, EFCC said yesterday that it is closing the case against Michael Igbinedion by September 23.