How to make Nigeria’s electricity work’

A Renewable Energy expert, Prof. Sylvester Egwu, has advised the President-elect, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, to tackle the epileptic power supply in the country by dismantling all generators in Aso Rock Villa. He also urged Buhari the President elect to order the Power Holding Company, PHCN, and Distribution Companies, DISCOs, to give the Villa power supply to save huge money spent on generating sets.

Egwu said that Nigeria as the giant of Africa has no justifiable reason to be in perpetual darkness, when it had all the potential to be energy sufficient and even export electricity outside the country.

Speaking exclusively with Sweetcrude, he said, “Nigeria as a giant of Africa has no justifiable reason

Two Students, Women Killed In Edo Cult Clashes

PRO Stephen Onwochei, Edo State

No fewer than four persons, consisting of two students and two women, have been reportedly killed by suspected cultists in different areas of Benin, the Edo State capital.

NDLEA Nabs Pastor With Heroin

Officials of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) at the Akanu Ibiam International Airport, Enugu, have arrested a Lagos pastor for drug trafficking, according to The Nation.

Making known details of the arrest to the press, Mr. Nsikak-Abasi Udoh, the NDLEA commander at the Enugu Airport, said the suspect, Daniel Lanre Akintola, 43, was found with 1.978kg of heroin concealed in a false bottom of his luggage.

Rapper Jay Z Wants To Invest In Nigerian Music Industry

Jay Z, one of the most financially successful Hip-Hop artists in the United States, unveiled this venture just a month after the launch of his new company Tidal, “the first music service with High Fidelity sound quality, High Definition music videos, and Curated Editorial, expertly crafted by music journalists.”

American rapper, record producer, and business mogul Shawn Corey 

SpaceX launches first test flight of Dragon crew capsule

SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft built to bring humans to orbit took flight for the first time Wednesday.
Wednesday’s short, uncrewed test in Florida marks a big milestone on SpaceX’s road to ferrying NASA astronauts to the International Space Station in the next two years.

See also: Latest video shows how close SpaceX got to landing Falcon 9

Even though Dragon was in the air for less than two minutes, the test should help SpaceX engineers gather key information about a potentially life-saving part of the spaceflight system.

Sambisa forest onslaught: Rescued women, children now 1,000

ABUJA— With about three weeks to the May 29, 2015  time frame given by the military to totally clear Sambisa forest of the remnants of the Boko Haram terrorists, Vanguard, yesterday, gathered that the number of women, young ladies and children rescued by special forces has hit 1,000

Dozens of endangered cockatoos found crammed into plastic bottles

cockatoo that was successfully secured from illegal wildlife trading is seen inside an empty bottle in Surabaya, East Java, Indonesia on May 04, 2015. A total of 24 birds were rescued.

(CNN)At least 24 cockatoos have been discovered stuffed into 1,500 ml plastic water bottles at an Indonesian port during an anti-smuggling operation.

Popular Trekker Reveals Why He Trekked For Chibok Girls

Suleiman Hashim is no longer a man whose name does not ring a bell in the ears of the world, especially among Nigerians following his alleged record-breaking trek from Lagos to Abuja to congratulate the president-elect, General Muhammadu Buhari.

The traveler, Sulaiman Hashim holding a child during his trek from Lagos to Unity Fountain, Abuja

This solar-powered race car will be street-legal by July

With the goal of having their solar-powered race car on the streets of Sydney by July this year, a student team from Australia's University of New South Wales is hard at work.

As PDP Burns From Within, Gov Fayose Reiterates Call for NWC’s Sack, Threatens To Expose Evidence of Chairman Mu’azu’s Betrayal

Ekiti State Governor Ayo Fayose is neither apologizing for, nor withdrawing his call for the dissolution of the Alhaji Adamu Mu’azu-led National Working Committee (NWC) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), saying it is in good faith and in the overall interest of the party. Ekiti State Governor, Ayo Fayose

In a press statement in Ado-Ekiti today by Lere Olayinka, his Special Assistant on Public Communications and New Media, Governor Fayose threatened to expose National Chairman Mu’azu, whom he said betrayed the PDP to the opposition.

Senator Begs GEJ To Forgive Nigeria's Ambassador To SA

 A senator representing Bauchi central, Abdul Ningi, has begged President Goodluck Jonathan to extend his mercy and forgive the Foreign Affairs ministry’s permanent secretary who was sanctioned for ordering the recall of Nigeria’s envoys to South Africa without authorisation.
Mr. Sheni’s decision to recall the officials was in protest to the recent xenophobia in the South African country, this move was criticized by the South African Government headed by President Jacob Zuma.
Ningi also criticized Sheni for his actions but told the Senate to intervene and ask the President to tamper justice with mercy.

Ambassador Danjuma Nanpon Sheni, Permanent Secretary at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs

“I am aware that the president and Commander-in-Chief is responsible for such a call and also aware that the permanent secretary has no power whatsoever to recall an ambassador without a clear directive by the government,” he said.

Buhari: Nigerians Expectations Is Making Me Nervous

President-elect, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari has expressed his nervousness over the expectations of Nigerians from him, which he described as “too high”. Buhari said this at a meeting with the APC governors-elect at Defence House, Abuja, yesterday, Punch reports. 
He also decried the poor state of the Nigerian economy which he opined has made it difficult for both the federal and state governments to meet their obligations to workers.

Soyinka About Insurgency And New Administration

The Nobel Prize laureate Professor Wole Soyinka explained why he was optimistic about Muhammadu Buhari’s emergence as Nigeria’s president-elect and what should be expected from Boko Haram.

Wole Soyinka

The prominent Nigerian made his position known in the course of the lecture “Predicting Nigeria, Electoral Ironies” delivered in the United States, The Punch reports.
The dramatist insisted that Buhari could not perform worse than the past presidents because he would be guided by a sense of history.