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Enugu Electricity Distribution Company PLC, EEDC the parent company of  Mainpower Electricity Distribution Limited, MEDL seems to have come under great fire for its decision to reduce power supply in some parts of Enugu State by 50 percent. Mainpower Electricity had in a public announcement informed its esteemed customers who have been experiencing power outages over the past five days that the situation is due to a significant drop in energy allocation from its parent company. This development is coming shortly after Enugu Electricity Regulatory Commission, EERC issued  a new Tariff Order to Mainpower to reduce the tariff for Band A customers from N209.50/kWh to N160.40/kWh. Upon receipt of the Tariff Order, Mainpower by obligation, promptly updated EEDC being its energy supplier, who  after analyzing the implications of the new tariff, concluded that implementing it would result in a monthly loss of over N1 billion, which makes it impossible for EEDC to meet her obligat...

Prof Simon Ortuanya has emerged the  new Vice Chancellor of the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, UNN. Ortuanya is the first indigenous Vice Chancellor of UNN after over 60 years of its existence. The professor of law is a former Secretary to the Enugu State Government, as well as Director General of South-East Governors' Forum. His emergence came with a lot of dramatic twists which has ended today. Prof. Ortuanya, from Igbo Etiti LGA, he is  a highly respected scholar, lawyer and administrator. He studied at UNN, University of Lagos and earned his PhD in Law from Loyola University in the U.S. He has served as a university lecturer for decades, Commissioner for Education in Enugu State (May 29, 2007 to May 29, 2015) under former  Governor Sullivan I. Chime and most recently as the Secretary to the Enugu State Government under former Governor Ifeanyi Lawrence Ugwuanyi. He also served as the DG of Southeast Governors Forum. Interestingly, UNN has been fully operational for alm...