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Following the recent constitutional amendment assented to by the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd), the power sector regulatory body- the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission now has powers to grant states licenses to generate, transmit and distribute electricity. Prior to the review, the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria in Articles 13 and 14 though gave power in the concurrent legislative list for federal and state… Read the full article here

The Independent National Electoral Commission has fixed April 15, 2023,  for the conduct of all outstanding governorship, national and state assembly supplementary elections. This was made known in a statement by the National Commissioner and Chairman, Information and Voter Education Committee, Festus Okoye, on Monday. It would be recalled that 26  governorship, 104 senatorial, 329 national and 935 state assembly elections have been concluded and winners declared.

A Federal Court of Appeal, sitting in Lagos, has set March 30, 2023 as the date to rule on the application seeking to set aside the interim ex-parte order previously made by the court, stopping Mr Roger Brown, from parading himself as the Chief Executive Officer of Seplat Energy Plc. Seplat Energy has been in the news lately following the travails of Brown. On March 10, 2023, The PUNCH reported that the Federal High Court in Lagos restrained Brown from parading… Read the full article here

Nigeria’s senior women’s cricket team, the Female Yellow Greens, will hope to make it two wins in a row when they take on debutants Cameroon in their second game of the NCF T20i tournament in Lagos on Tuesday (today) in Lagos, The PUNCH reports. The Female Yellow Greens began their campaign with a six wickets win over Sierra Leone in the opening game of the tournament on Monday. Seirra Leone won the toss and chose to bat first. However, they could only manage 65… Read the full article here

Some educators including the National Association of Proprietors of Private Schools, Lagos; Chairman of Vice-Chancellors, and Registrars of Private Universities in Nigeria have said internship and foreign education help learners become goal oriented. Speaking at the PROU Education Symposium, titled, ‘Nigeria Study abroad,’ Vice-Chancellor, Lead City University,  Prof. Kabiru Adeyemo, who gave the keynote address, explained that PROU was a stepping stone that… Read the full article here

IT infrastructure has proven to effectively support business operations while ensuring productivity does not suffer as work shifted from full-time in-office to remote and now hybrid, PPC has disclosed. The ICT and infrastructure development company stated that the shifting nature of work required the deployment of intelligent tools to keep employees engaged and ensure seamless and successful workflow. According to the Head of the ICT Division at PPC Limited, Dr… Read the full article here

Stephen Hendry believes Mark Allen’s loss of form has “deserted him at the worst part of the season” after his quarter-final loss to Ding Junhui at the Tour Championship.Allen arrived at the Tour Championship as the No. 1 seed after being the most impressive player on the circuit for the current season.But with the World Championship still to come, Allen failed to impress against Ding and registered just three half-centuries in a 10-5 defeat.Tour ChampionshipDing cruises past Allen on… Read the full article here

Apple Music Classical was born from Primephonic, which Apple acquired in 2021 with the intent of launching a classical music-focused app in 2022. The promise of Apple Music Classical is that it will be better at handling the complex metadata often associated with classical recordings, and the app will also have things like curated playlists and composer biographies to help people get more acquainted with the genre.Apple says the app’s catalog houses more than 5 million tracks and that you… Read the full article here

Over a private dinner late last year, the chief executive of a large listed Japanese company was doubtful about whether annual spring wage talks in 2023 would finally deliver increases in pay.He told me that his guess was that the talks would lead to another false dawn, continuing a long, unerring cycle in Japan. With an ever-tightening labour market and nearly a decade of direct government lobbying to businesses to raise wages, each year felt like there was a sense of change in the… Read the full article here

Bankrupt crypto lender BlockFi has agreed to refund more than $100,000 to California customers that had continued to repay loans even after a trading halt on Nov. 10 last year. According to a March 27 statement from California’s financial watchdog, the Department of Financial Protection and Innovation (DFPI), its investigation discovered at least 111 borrowers in California paid back roughly $103,471 in loan repayments between Nov. 11 and Nov. 22. The regulator claimed that BlockFi failed… Read the full article here