The Chief Executive Officer of Ikeja Electricity Distribution Company, Mr. Chris Akamnonu, has said that the new tariff regime will favour rural dwellers and the urban poor in the country.

Eko Electricity Distribution Company has assured customers within the zone of sustainable electricity supply within the next two months with the ongoing power sector reforms.

Super Eagles players filed out at the Abraham Ordia stadium, University of Calabar, Cross River State, Monday morning for their first training in preparation for their match against the Namibia national team on June 3, at the U.J. Esuene stadium Calabar.

The Shell Global Solutions International, SGSI, a world leader in LNG technology, marketing and investment consultancy, has confirmed Olokola Liquefied Natural Gas, OKLNG, as a sound project.

As Nigerians join other countries of the world to celebrate the Children’s Day, parents, guardians and Nigerian leaders have been called upon to encourage policies and values capable to guarantee the rights and future of Nigerian child.

Super Eagles boss, Stephen Keshi, has unveiled an ambitious programme aimed at ensuring that the national team, scores plenty goals not only against Namibia, but against any foe in the qualifiers for the Nations Cup 2012 and the World Cup 2014.

IN a bid to boost agriculture in the country, Raymos Guanah Farms and the National Horticultural Research Institute, NIHORT, Ibandan, Oyo State, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding, MoU, for partnership for out station farm research.

Pope Benedict XVI on Monday called for religious communities in Syria to cooperate to bring peace to the violence-wracked country.

Lille’s Belgian international playmaker Eden Hazard announced on Monday he had signed for Champions League winners Chelsea in preference to Premier League champions Manchester City and runners-up Manchester United.

West Bromwich striker Peter Odemwingie has said that getting married to fiancée Sarah Fallon is the best contract he’s ever signed.

Tragedy struck in the early hours of Monday, when a fast-moving train crushed an unidentified Okada rider and his passenger at the railway crossing of the Nigerian Railway Corporation at Guinness Road, off Agege Motor Road, Idimangoro, Agege, Lagos.

The Nigerian Army, Monday, began the court-martial of 14 soldiers serving in Special Task Forces in Maiduguri, Jos and Bauchi for alleged misconduct.

The president of the Central African Republic (CAR), Francois Bozize, was elevated to the status of religious leader Monday, state radio said Monday.

Gunmen on a motorcycle shot dead four traders from the mainly Christian Igbo ethnic group on Monday in the city of Yola, residents said, the latest in a string of such attacks.

Liberian warlord Charles Taylor will be sentenced for war crimes by a special UN court on Wednesday, after being found guilty of arming Sierra Leone rebels in return for “blood diamonds”.