President Muhammadu Buhari may soon carry out a minor cabinet shake-up with the imminent exit of the Minister of Environment, Amina Mohammed, from his administration. Our correspondent however learnt on Sunday that the exercise might not be carried out until early next year when Mohammed is expected to leave. Secretary-General-elect of the United Nations, Antonio Guterres, was said to have appointed the minister as his Deputy. A government source told our correspondent that Mohammed had already made the development known to Buhari and some of her colleagues. “For her, she would have loved to stay back and continue to serve…

Despite its reluctance to officially set up a negotiating committee to hold talks with militants in the Niger Delta, the federal government has continued discreet talks with the belligerent groups in the region. It was gathered that at least three meetings had taken place in the last few months between the militants and federal government emissaries coordinated by the National Security Adviser (NSA), Major General Mohammed Moguno (rtd). The backroom discussions, which have incorporated other smaller aggrieved groups, are continuing, it was learnt, just as there is growing anxiety among elders and leaders in the region over the inability of…

The Senate has lampooned Electricity Distribution Companies, DISCOS, operating in the country, saying they were worse than defunct Power Holdings Company of Nigeria, PHCN, and National Electric Power Authority, NEPA. According to the Senate, unless a serious collaboration is put in place between the Federal Government and DISCOs, the power sector is heading for a total collapse. The Senate Committee on Power, Steel Development and Metallurgy, chaired by Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe, made these observations in Kaduna, weekend, during an oversight function on electricity companies and power parastatals. The committee also frowned at the failure of DISCOs to submit their audit…

Some of the survivors of Saturday’s collapsed church building in Uyo, the Akwa Ibom State capital, have recounted their ordeal, saying they escaped by the grace of God. Reigners Bible Church International’s building collapsed during a service, killing many worshippers and leaving several others wounded. Governor Udom Emmanuel was the special guest of honour at the special service to inaugurate a bishop. He was there with some of his commissioners and special advisers. Some of the victims of the disaster are receiving treatment at the University of Uyo Teaching Hospital (UUTH). One of the victims, Mr. Thompson Emmanuel, who hailed…