Tag: Darkness
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Total darkness looms as AEDC workers threaten to shutdown electricity supply in Abuja, 3 other states
Total darkness looming as the National Union of Electricity Employees threaten to shut down power supply in Abuja, Nasarawa, Kogi, and Niger States under the franchise of Abuja Electricity Distribution Company. The threat is contained in a notice letter to AEDC by NUEE Assistant Secretary General Liaison Opaluwa Simeon on Tuesday. NUEE listed 13 unmet…
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Days after electricity was restored, Boko Haram blows up power tower, throws Maiduguri into darkness again
Barely three days after electricity was restored in Maiduguri, Boko Haram terrorists have plunged the North-East city into darkness again after blowing up a power tower on Saturday. TheNewsGuru.com, TNG reports that in January, the terrorists had struck power installations thrice to keep the city in the dark. It took power authorities almost two months…
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My husband is light fighting darkness in Edo – Obaseki's wife
Edo State Governor Godwin Obaseki wife’s Betsy yesterday rose to defend her husband, describing the crisis in the state as “a fight between light and darkness”. Speaking at the weekend in Benin, the Edo State capital, where she was decorated as patron of the Nigerian Girls Guides Association (NGGA), Mrs. Obaseki said light must continue…
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2019: Nigerians have a choice between light and darkness – Obi
The vice presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Mr Peter Obi, has described the next presidential election as a battle between darkness and light. Speaking at Agulu, during a lecture organised by African Community of Transformers with the theme, ‘South-East Political Culture: Peter Obi as Paradigm Shift’, Obi said Nigerians have the opportunity now…
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Obaseki orders BEDC MD out of his office ‘for putting Edo people in darkness’
There was mild drama at the office of the Edo State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, on Tuesday, as the governor walked the Managing Director (MD) of the Benin Electricity Distribution Company (BEDC), Mrs. Funke Osibodu, out of his office for failing to meet obligations to electricity consumers in Edo and throwing the state into darkness…