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An unidentified middle age man was electrocuted at the early hours of Sunday while trying to steal electric cable at a power supply installation in Kaduna. The incident happened at Accra Crescent by LEA Primary School, Unguwar Rimi. The traditional ruler of teh area, Dan Iyar Unguwar Rimi, Alhaji Muhammad Gidado, confirmed the incident.

Christmas is definitely in the air. You only need to go to the nearest market in your neighbourhood to know that a lot of shopping is going on in preparation for the feasting on Friday. However, as you plan to cook tomorrow, don’t buy meat that has been fattened with hormones and genetically modified feeds.

The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) wednesday raised hopes that the lingering queues at fuel stations across the country would subside with the production of 3.2 million litres of petrol daily by the Kaduna Refining and Petrochemical Company (KRPC), 48 hours before the Christmas celebrations.

The 30-year-old model revealed the sex of her child on Wednesday with an Instagram post announcing she will be having a daughter.

The Nigeria Labour Congress has stated that the N18,000 Minimum Wage is due for upward review, saying it will resist attempts by state governors to reduce the current wage. NLC, in a communiqué at the end of the Central Working Committee’s meeting of the union, said it was ready to mobilise its members for a protest in any state that the prevailing wage or retrenched workers.

A 17-year-old house maid, Esther Abiodun, has been arraigned before a Lagos State magistrates’ court for allegedly pouring hot water on her employer, Alhaja Dupe Iba Agba, while she was asleep.

THE  Senate will today  begin an inquest into alleged mismanagement of funds appropriated to the power sector from the Olusegun Obasanjo civilian administration to date. In a statement, yesterday, by the Clerk of Senate ad hoc Committee on Power, Cletus Ojabo, the power sector probe will be in the form of investigative hearing/interactive session, just as there was an indication that former ministers of power will also be in attendance.