Sony said Tuesday it has sold more than 2.1 million PlayStation 4 consoles after less than three weeks on the market, as it battles Microsoft and Nintendo for supremacy in the lucrative gaming sector.

As part of concerted effort to boost Liquefied Petroleum Gas, LPG for domestic use across the world with more emphasis in Nigeria, World Liquefied Petroleum Gas Association, WLPGA aims to switch one billion persons from using traditional fuel to LPG.

Mr. James Olotu, Managing Director, Niger Delta Power Holding Company Limited, NDPHC, was in Lagos recently where he commissioned some NIPPs built by NDPHC. He spoke to some journalists on the NIPPs and the interface with the new owners of generation and distribution companies. SEBASTINE OBASI was there.

There is no doubt that Cross Riverians from all walks of life and indeed fans of CrossRiverState are eagerly looking forward to this year’s Calabar Festival, which usually begins and ends within 32 days in the month of December.

Ghanaian government is to award a $2.5 billion contract for the expansion of its ports facilities to attract bigger vessels in a bid to make it the hub for the sub-region.

Lagos based lawyer and activist, Barrister Bamidele Aturu, yesterday, dismissed the Federal Government’s sack threat to striking university lecturers, saying that government has failed to appreciate the rot in the university system. Rather, he said government should meet the demands of Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU.

Yemisi Oyebanji, a widow, who owns a small scale frozen food shop in Ojodu area of Lagos, has been a sad woman in the last one month. Though her husband died four months ago, her sadness stemmed from the fact that her small shop, which she started in early September may soon be closed due to dwindling electricity supply.

Nigeria has been ranked 144th most corrupt country as Afghanistan, North Korea and Somalia are seen as the world’s most corrupt countries while Denmark and New Zealand are nearly squeaky-clean, graft watchdog Transparency International said in a survey Tuesday.

DEEP burial method for installation of pipelines has been identified as a better way to protect these facilities from attack by oil thieves and sabotage.

A 50-year-old man, Tajudeen Omole, has been arraigned before an Osogbo chief magistrate’s court for allegedly having carnal knowledge of a 12-year-old girl.

THE Redeemed Christian Church of God, RCCG, yesterday announced its preparedness to host millions of participants from different parts of the world with effect from Monday for this year’s Holy Ghost Congress with the assurance that parking lots have been expanded to guarantee free flow of traffic along the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway.

Professor Attahiru Jega’s Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has continued to chalk up questionable competence in every election its has conducted in the country in its over three years of existence.

GOVERNOR Liyel Imoke of Cross River State, yesterday, suspended indefinitely, seven commissioners and 13 special advisers from the State Executive Council, SEC, for failing to participate in activities marking World AIDS Day.

Economic Rights and Accountability Project, (SERAP), a civil society group has asked the Lagos State government to make public its spendings on public primary and secondary education the past five years.

The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission, ICPC, yesterday, revealed that it had made more arrests in connection with the recruitment scandal into the Nigeria Customs Service.