Metro Nigeriana

THE EVIL GENIUS -   BEDC BOSS When NEPA/PHCN was privatized, Nigerians thought at last we are going to heave a sigh  of relief but little did Nigerians know that  we are biting more than we can chew. Coming home, because i cant speak for other states but for Edo State I can speak. Since the date when the discos arrived, power became a scarce commodity and since then most people in Edo State never knew what it is to have power. In my area in Benin City (Siluko Road to be precised) we experience 1 hour power a day, some days 30 minutes, other days 3hr 30min in 2 days. I run generator for a minimum of 14-16 hours daily We have embarked on a protest mission twice, the BEDC management will tell us they are going to be scheduling 3 hour on and off for us, yet we agreed but it never came. Recently, there have been pockets of protest in most parts of the states, in Auchi, people protested and because of their protest the whole of that local government and some parts of owan east lo

SPECIAL REPORT: Inside Agatu killing field: blood on the streets, charred bodies everywhere March 18, 2016 Emmanuel Mayah RELA Agatu Killings: Senate blames Boko Haram, not Fulani herdsmen March 9, 2016 Across the Nasarawa-Benue borderline, Agatu was still hundreds of miles away but passengers on the motorway were already getting an eyeful of savagery. In a village farm with fresh ridges heralding a new planting season, a young Fulani herder was perched on a cashew tree, his cattle trampling below him. Armed with a machete, he was hacking away at the lush branches, felling them to the ground for the animals to feed. The farm owners stood outside their huts and like the passing motorists could only watch helplessly as the cash crop was stripped bare and their yam seedlings destroyed. The routes to Makurdi and on to Otukpo and Apa were characterized by the same landscape and scenario. Along both sides of the road were hundreds of farmlands with ridges and all dott

   President Muhammadu Buhari AS  a new year approaches, hopes of a brighter future raised by the inauguration six months ago of President Muhammadu Buhari have gone down a notch. A report  by Bloomb erg that the value of quoted equities on the Nigerian Stock Exchange fell by 22 per cent between April and November coincided with yet another foreign shuttle by the President amid petrol and power shortages. At home and abroad, the message to Buhari is strident: settle down and deliver on your promise of change. For Nigerians and the administration, time is a luxury. A presidential term is only four years and Buhari has spent a bewildering six months simply cobbling together a cabinet, during which time he has made about 15 foreign trips. Between June and now, a third round of petrol shortages is just winding down after marketers collected the latest ransom of N407 billion as subsidy, while the naira has crashed to N250 to US$1 at the parallel market, down from N185 to US$1 in April. P

Gay and lesbianism is regarded as taboo in most part of the world either through cultural view or religious view until recently when the United States and other European nations are legalizing the act in their various countries and the United States especially has taken it upon herself through President Obama and their top government officials to take the so-called same sex marriage as “human right violation” of those oppose to same sex marriage. In 2013, Nigeria’s National Assemblies passed an anti-gay law under the government of President Goodluck Jonathan.   The bill by Africa’s most populous nation calls for a 14-year sentence for anyone convicted of homosexuality. Anyone who aids or “abets” same-sex unions faces 10 years in prison, a provision that could target rights groups. On January 17, 2014, a popular area in Benin City, precisely Ekenwan road was a central of attraction when two young men were caught in the very act. Eyewitness told Metronigeriana that the mop di