STATES FIGHT AGAINST SENATE 2026 ELECTRICITY ACT AMENDMENT BILL
16 states have united to formally oppose the Electricity Act Amendment Bill 2026, slamming it as a "shocking" attempt to strip away the constitutional power they gained just three years ago.
The crux of the fight:
The States argue they have the constitutional right to build independent electricity markets and attract private investment locally.
The Bill seeks to reconsolidate power back to federal agencies like NERC, which the states argue will cripple local growth.
Regulators from Lagos, Enugu, Edo, and 13 others are warning that if this bill passes, it will undo the progress of the 2023 Act and lock Nigeria into the same centralized, failing grid model that has left the country in the dark for two decades.
@AtakataJakarta@thecableng Any Yorubaman not joining our fight against marauding Fulani bandits and marauders is not any of my concern at this moment, he's the one who knows what he's looking for in oyinbo brothers fight.
There's a whole regulation body for sanitation in Nigeria. In fact, I grew up knowing there was sanitation every Thursday.
How did we regress so badly? What exactly does this government do for us?
There's a whole sitting minister of health and Lagos stinks badly.
@CanNigeriaWork And that's why you have someone with sense saying "don't do that,we have all at one time or the other done the same thing you want to stone this woman for". I doubt anyone would say that about stone cold murder, will you?
A UK student's reaction is going viral after Prime Minister Keir Starmer said Britain will ban children younger than 16 from using social media.
During a BBC interview, the student revealed her screen time was nine hours over the weekend. When asked how she'd fill all that extra time without social media, she didn't hesitate: "Stare at a wall."
The deadpan response is quickly becoming one of the most shared reactions to the UK's sweeping new restrictions on children's social media use.