Kia Motors introduced Korea’s first electric vehicle on Thursday, with the launch of the new Kia Ray EV – a zero-emissions city car with lively performance and a range of up to 139 km (86 miles) on a single charge.

Member Representing Bomadi/Patani federal constituency in the House of Representatives, Mr Nicholas Mutu, weekend, said the N20 billion Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, Gbaregolor-Ezebiri Road project, would be completed on schedule.

MEMBERS of the Senate Committee on Niger Delta and environment have been recalled from the Christmas and New Year recess following the spillage of about 40,000 barrels of crude oil at Bonga oil field.

SECURITY situation in Ughelli, headquarters of Ughelli North Local Government Area, Delta State, weekend, heightened, following the suspected assassination of Mr. Sherriff Emakpo, at the busy Afiesere Road Junction on the East/West Road.

National Youth Leader of Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, Mr. Ebikibina Miriki has challenged Northern leaders to prevail on the Boko Haram sect over their attacks, which has continued to claim lives of innocent Nigerians in the Northern part of the country.

NATIONAL Secretary of the Accord Party, Dr. Samson Isibor, has appealed against his conviction by a Benin Chief Magistrate’s Court, Edo State.

High cost of air ticket on Nigeria-South Africa route has scuttled the plans of many Nigerians resident in the country to travel home for Christmas.

There was another bomb scare in the Plateau State Capital, Monday, following the arrest of a man around the overhead bridge in Gada Biyu area for allegedly trying to blow up the bridge.

Christmas is many things to many people. It’s the season to be jolly and I guess it would be if the true meaning of it was the reason behind all of the frantic activities that grip the world around the period. The season was not so jolly the past few years and I had to make a conscious effort to pray and ask God to break the cycle of drama that seemed to be all the present I got annually.

The umbrella organisation of all Northern socio-cultural associations, Arewa Consultative Forum, ACF yesterday condemned last Christmas Day’s bomb blasts in some churches in the North, warning that the attack was capable of causing religious crises which would serve nobody any good in the country.

The Abia State Government has expressed its determination to reclaim and rehabilitate 20 per cent of gully erosion sites in the state in 2012.

Christmas used to mean so much to me, as a child – so much of nothingness. It was a feeling which accompanied me to adulthood. It meant a time to splurge on good food for a day or two, after numerous activities that meant very little but dragged the time away.

– Christmas celebration in the university town of Nsukka in Enugu state was marred by violent clashes by rival cult groups which claimed two lives.

Some Christian clerics in Lagos have condemned the Christmas Day bomb blasts in Niger and Plateau, saying the explosions were unwarranted.