Interstate Electrics (IE), which won the bid for the Enugu Electricity Distribution Company, DISCo, is said to have completed the payment of the 75 percent balance for the electricity firm.

Gov. Peter Obi has enjoined Anambra people wherever they are, whether at home or in diaspora to be good ambassadors of the State and of Nigeria. He said this Friday at the Intercontinental Hotel, Nairobi, Kenya, during the Nigerian-Kenya Business Forum, where he was invited by the Ministry of Trade and Investment because of his investment credentials.

700 officers and soldiers from the 2 Division Nigerian Army are on their way to Liberia as contribution to peacekeeping mission.

A High Court in Port Harcourt Friday ordered the release of the International Passport of Chidi Lloyd, Majority Leader of the Rivers State House of Assembly (RVHA) who is facing trial over alleged criminal role on July 9th fracas in the House.

When Thankgod Nwabisi, 23, left his village in Adani, Uzo-Uwani L.G.A of Enugu State to serve as an apprehentice to an auto -parts dealer in Ladipo, Lagos, popularly called Elopee, members of his family heaved a sigh of relief, believing that their only child was making a positive headway in life.

The crisis between the mother of the stowaway teenage boy, Mrs Evelyn Oikhena and her husband, Mr Osaigbovo, deepened last Monday, when the latter appeared at the Edo State Government House during a scheduled meeting between Governor Adams Oshiomhole and the family.

Atleast 50 suspected Boko Haram sect members were killed in an encounter with Military Troops of 5 Brigade of 7 Division, Nigerian Army, Monguno when the terrorists laid ambush in two communities of Gajiram, the Headquarters of Nganzai and Bullabulin Ngaura of Konduga Local Government Areas of Borno state.

It is obvious that with the way our native languages are being handled in schools especially in townships, four to five generations ahead will definitely find it difficult to identify where they are from. In a country like Nigeria where there are so many ethnic groups and languages, you you could hardly see a child or an adult speaking his/her native language.

The children of Isreal were in captivity for years and suddenly God delivered them from the hands of their enemies. I prophesy that this same God will not only hear your cry and see your afflictions but that He will also deliver you from all your troubles.

An Igbo adage says that when birds fly without perching, one will shot without aiming.

Pakistani teen Malala Yousafzai, shot in the head last year by the Taliban for campaigning for girls’ education, has been awarded the 2013 International Children’s Peace Prize; she vowed Friday to intensify her struggle for “a world where everyone can go to school.”

South African gold producers on Friday said they expected most striking workers to head back to the shafts Friday night after making a new wage offer.

UNICEF has declared that Nigeria was on the verge of being declared polio-free.

Some real estate managers on Friday said that the Lagos Tenancy Law had yet to achieve its objective of reducing problems of accommodation seekers.

President Goodluck Jonathan on Friday in Nairobi, called on African leaders to do away with policies that could obstruct intra-African trade and unity of the continent.