Government intervention is urgently needed to stem the tide of acute shortage of gas cylinders in the country, which is threatening cooking gas consumption, the Nigerian Association of Liquefied Petroleum Gas Marketers, NALPGAM, has said

Borkir International Company Limited, a Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) trading company in Nigeria and across West Africa, has announced plans to become the leading indigenous LPG trading company in the West and Central African region.

Huawei, a leading global information and communications technology (ICT) solutions provider, Tuesday, announced a 34 per cent growth in its profit for the 2013 financial year.

African insurance market is said to be warming up for sustainable growth as a result of good governance, adherence to market rules among others just as Nigeria insurance market topped the list of three attractive markets in the continent, according to A.M. Best. a renowned rating agency.

Unless Nigerians switch to the use of Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG), the country will continue to lose about N2.914 trillion, spent annually on the use of firewood, kerosene and kerosene subsidy, according to data obtained by Sweetcrude.

International oil companies, IOCs operating in Nigeria have called on the Federal Government to intervene in the extension of the period within which deepwater acreage lease is due for renewal.

The continuous payment of subsidy on Premium Motor Spirit, PMS, also known as petrol to oil marketers in Nigeria has impeded the growth of Liquefied Petroleum Gas, LPG as auto fuel, the Group Managing Director, Banner Energy, Mr. Nuhu Yakubu, said.
Yakubu urged Nigerians to embrace LPG as a substitute to petrol because it is a cheaper and cleaner fuel than petrol or diesel.

The Radio, Television and Theatre Workers of Nigeria (RATTAWU) and the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) have expressed opposition to Federal Government’s plan to commercialise its media houses.

The Sokoto State Police Command on Tuesday said it arrested 40 alleged political thugs across the state with dangerous weapons.

A businessman, Alhaji Wasiu Abiodun, on Tuesday prayed a Mapo Customary Court in Ibadan to dissolve the relationship between him and his wife, Kafaya, over her alleged change of faith.

A 26-year-old bus conductor, Nurudeen Suleiman, who allegedly jumped into the Atlantic Ocean after stealing N40, 000, was on Tuesday charged before a Tinubu Magistrates’ Court, Lagos.

Nigeria on Tuesday assumed the rotating presidency of the United Nations Security Council for April.

A former Spokesman of the Nigeria Football Association (NFA), Austin Mgbolu, on Tuesday expressed his disappointment with a former Ethiopian Coach, Sewnet Bishaw, for alleging that FIFIA favoured the Super Eagles to qualify for the upcoming World Cup.

Three children on Tuesday drowned at the Ebia River in Egugwu, Agbaja in Abakaliki Local Government Area of Ebonyi state.

The Lagos State Government on Tuesday said it has filed an appeal against the court judgment which declared collection of toll on the Lekki-Ikoyi bridge as illegal.