Fulani Herdsmen Kill 12 In Benue State

The affected communities according to a source, were attacked at about 8p.m. Tuesday night with the herders shooting maiming and killing any villager insight.

“It was around 8p.m. that the people started hearing sounds of gunshots from every direction in the village, and in the that confusion people started running for safety.

“Unfortunately, about 12 of them were caught up with and killed while many sustained injuries while trying to escape.

“As I speak with you, many of the villagers are still missing and many have been rendered homeless because over 45 houses and huts were razed by the herdsmen who beat a retreat after the attack.”

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President Buhari Set To Appoint Fashola Or Buhari As Chief Of Staff

According to reports, President Muhammadu Buhari is expected to name his Chief of Staff, Secretary to the government of the Federation and other aides today.

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According to a news platform, SaharaReporters, Former Governor of Lagos State , Babatunde Fashola and Former Ekiti State Governor, Kayode Fayemi are being vetted for the position.

Abubakar Mamu is said to be also up for consideration alongside ex-governors.

Kim Kardashian Debunks Rumours That She Is Pregnant With Twins

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She also said “Oh I was just bored sitting in there for an hour,’I guess I get a little feisty when I’m pregnant. So I was just responding to people that come up with the most ridiculous things as if they’re facts. So I was like, I might as well just say whatever I want.”

Pres. Buhari Set To Appoint Himself As Minister Of Petroleum

President Muhammadu Buhari is likely to keep the oil portfolio for himself in the new Nigerian cabinet, rather than trust anyone else with the source of most of Nigeria’s revenue and traditional fount of corruption, associates say.

The ministry contributes over 80 per cent of Nigeria’s revenue. Reuters quoted some close associates of the President as saying this on Tuesday.

One long-standing associate of Buhari, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the cabinet decision was still under wraps, said Nigeria’s oil sector was so dirty that nobody’s hands were clean enough to do the “surgical changes” needed.

Reuters also quoted another political associate as saying, “He will do it. It would be stupid to give that position to anyone else.”

Buhari has extensive knowledge of the oil sector, having been head of the Petroleum Trust Fund under an ex-military ruler, the late Gen. Sani Abacha, in the 1990s and oil minister in the 1970s under Olusegun Obasanjo.

Jonathan has left Buhari with a cash-strapped government, with a rainy-day fund so depleted that the government must borrow just to cover salaries. The government relies on oil sales for the bulk of its revenues but there has been little oversight on how these are handled. A former Central Bank of Nigeria Governor, Lamido Sanusi, was sacked under Jonathan after he declared that some $20bn in oil revenues was missing between 2012 and 2013.

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LAST YEAR'S POWER GENERATION TARGET NOT MET

Nigerian Electricity Supply Industry (NESI) is still 1,584.79 Mega Watts (Mw) away from realising the Federal Government’s 5,000Mw target for last year even after almost a week into another year.

Prof. Chinedu Nebo, the Minister of Power, explained during the 2014 Ministerial Platform in Abuja that the generation of 5,000Mw might not spill beyond this month.

He said, “Some people are asking about the completion of NIPP. I have mentioned about Alaoji , Gabrian and Omoku. I don’t think they will spill beyond January for achieving 5,000 Mw because the gas is already available.”

But in the Power Statistics posted on the website of the Power Ministry yesterday, it said the Electricity Generation Companies (GENCos) produced 3,415.21 Mw on January 4.

The Ministry added that of the 3,415.21 Mw, the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) evacuated 3,314.99Mw to the Electricity Distribution Companies (DISCOs). It stressed that TCN recorded a 100.22Mw wheeling gap.

There was however no mention of how many Mw the DISCOs were able to distribute to their customers in a market that is characterised by weak transformers/feeders and other challenges.

The minister had in the last year’s ministerial platform disclosed that some of the companies were rejecting their load allocation.

This latest statistics however showed that the GENCOs hit a peak generation of 3,646.80Mw.

The market highest peak generated power, according to the January 4 statistics was 4,517.6 Mw of December 23, 2012. Its peak demand forecast is 12,800Mw.

In its penultimate power statistics of December 29, the Ministry had said the GENCOs produced 4,112.29Mw from which the TCN was able to evacuate 4,034.48Mw, which culminated to a wheeling gap of 77.81Mw.

There was also an energy generation of 4,112.29Mw while the market hit a peak energy generation of 4,389.70Mw on the same December 29.

Following the statistics, the electricity market transmission soared from 3,314.99Mw to the current 4,034.48Mw, which increased energy sent out by 719.49Mw within a week.