FG reduces electricity target to 5,000MW

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Plans to generate above 6,000 megawatts of electricity by December 2014 may have hit the rocks as the Federal Government on Saturday announced that its new target by the end of the year is now 5,000MW.

The Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke, stated in Abuja on Saturday that the Central Bank of Nigeria would clear up the N25bn gas-related debts of the power sector in order to boost stakeholders’ confidence in the industry.

She said, 

5,000 US teachers and scholars support anti-Israel boycott.

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The American Studies Association (ASA) has become the largest US group of scholars to boycott Israel. The scholars' group of more than 5,000 US teachers and researchers voted to launch an academic boycott of Israeli colleges and universities in a move condemned by the World Jewish Congress as "moral bankruptcy." Israeli officials have denounced the campaign as an attempt to delegitimize the Israeli state.

The group, which is devoted to the study of American culture and history, announced Monday that its nearly 5,000 members voted in favor of the boycott by a 2-to-1 margin on Sunday night. A total of 1,252 members voted on the issue, with 66 percent voting "yes" and 30 percent voting "no." Three percent abstained from voting altogether.

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Mother Held Over ’5-Year-Old’ Frozen Babies

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The mother of two baby boys whose bodies were found after five years in a freezer in the basement of the supermarket where she worked, has been detained Russian police detained, investigators said on Thursday. The Investigative Committee said the boys were born alive, but died shortly afterwards from exposure. Their mother had kept the bodies in her refrigerator before moving them to the supermarket where she worked in western Russia.

Local police said that the owners of the supermarket were being questioned. “It should be clarified why over the course of five years no one in the management of the shop did anything regarding the contents of the freezer,” Itar Tass quoted a police source as saying.

5-year-old boy sent away from school for having long hair (PICTURED)

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The school, Roberts Road Elementary, in Hockley had turned away a 5-year-old boy for sporting a long hair during enrollment, as reported by local news, Thursday, January 10. The boy’s mother, Ursula Martin, said that her son’s hair was not a problem in the previous school that he came from. The family had just moved to Hockley. Martin could not understand how the length of his son’s hair could affect his education. Martin said: “He doesn’t feel like he should have to cut his hair to go to school.”