PRESSURE being mounted on the Federal Government to reverse the recently introduced high electricity tariff is rising as the Nigerian Guild of Editors and other groups in the country have endorsed the petition sent to the United Nations on the matter by a coalition of civil society.

FORMER Inspector General of Police, Sir Mike Okiro, has expressed worry over recent attacks by the Boko Haram sect, following the huge casualties recorded almost on daily basis, despite the declaration of state of emergency in Borno, Yobe and Adamawa states by President Goodluck Jonathan in May 2013.

LEADERS of All Progressives Congress, APC and Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Edo State, weekend, abandoned their political differences to attend the 60th birthday anniversary of the Political Adviser to the Governor of the state, Chief Charles Idahosa in Benin City.

Christians resident in Kafanchan in Kaduna State on Sunday could not attend the usual Sunday church service as a result of the curfew imposed on the city.

FORMER Secretary to Delta State Government, Obarisi Ovie Omo-Agege, has said that he has all it takes to represent the Urhobo ethnic group in the Senate.

John Mikel Obi is delighted at scoring his first Premier League goal for Chelsea in their 2-0 win over Fulham on Saturday.

President Goodluck Jonathan on Sunday in Abuja said Nigeria would give support and render assistance to Kenya in its efforts to curtail the scourge of terrorism.

Leading Telecoms services provider, Airtel Nigeria, has been named the Most Innovative Telecoms Operator in Nigeria at an Industry Award’s event that attracted regulators, telecoms pundits, top politicians and seasoned journalists.

THE Council for Registered Freight Forwarders of Nigeria, CRFFN, refuting the claims by the President of National Council of Managing Directors of Licensed Customs Agents, NCMDLCA, that CRFFN are transporters, and should be asked to quit the premises of Nigerin ports Authorit, NPA.

Chancellor Angela Merkel clinched a surprise absolute majority in her winning bid for a third term in German elections Sunday, estimates on public television indicated.

SINCE he was born March5, 2000, 13-year-old Uchenna Ekezie has lived with a genital deformity. He was born with what is described in medical parlance as maldeveloped external genitalia. In lay terms, he has no visible external male reproductive organs whatsoever. All he has to show is a rudimentary stump that is less than an inch long.

The National Insurance Commission, NAICOM, has said that the country is much likely to attain a sustained economic growth and development if it can adapt its insurance industry with innovative ways that will bring on board the generality of the country’s population.

Kenyan troops have launched an assault on cornered Somali militants holding hostages inside a Nairobi shopping mall to end a deadly siege, the government crisis team said Sunday.

Stakeholders in the Nigerian mortgage finance sector comprising operators, supervisory, and regulatory organs as well as key government officials have commenced moves to create an integrated web-based central mortgage asset registry system that will reveal properties on which loans have been obtained.

David Moyes’s first derby as Manchester United manager turned into a nightmare on Sunday as Manchester City inflicted a humiliating 4-1 defeat at a triumphant Etihad Stadium.