The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has initiated a scheme aimed at getting kerosene to consumers across the country at the regulated price of N50 per litre.

“We have ambition and want to put in good performances but only what happens on the field will decide how far we can go,” Giresse told journalists ahead of his side’s Group C opener against Ghana in Mongomo on Monday.

Following an interactive session with the management of Vanguard Media Limited in his office in Calabar, Cross River State last Wednesday, Governor Liyel Imoke, winner of Vanguard’s Best Tourism Development Award, 2014, fielded questions on the ongoing national political campaigns, his perspective on the power situation in the country among other issues

The Lagos State Police are currently investigating the death of a 57-year-old man allegedly stabbed to death by his friend during a disagreement over sachet of dry gin worth N30, in Otto community, an outskirts of Lagos.

The Federal Government has expressed disappointment over the execution by firing squad of two Nigerians, Solomon Okafor and Daniels Enemuo, by the Government of Indonesia despite its pleas.

ALL chicken markets in Lagos State and environs have been placed on red alert even as veterinary institutions have stepped up surveillance to contain the avian influenza (bird flu) outbreak reported last week in two poultries in Lagos and Kano states.

“It also regretted that rather than focusing on issues of national significance, the PDP spokesmen have stuck to the tactics of demonising Buhari.”—APC

Lagos lawyer Festus Keyamo has spurned his fellow Niger Deltan, President Goodluck Jonathan and endorsed All Progressives Congress, APC candidate for the presidential election, General Muhammadu Buhari, saying the President has proved his incapacity to fight corruption.

THE Presidency, yesterday, described as mischievous and malicious, claims by the Presidential Campaign Organisation of the All Progressives Congress, APC that the government had concluded plans to hand over to the Military rather than its presidential candidate, General Muhammadu Buhari(retd)

abuja—Special Adviser to President Goodluck Jonathan on Niger Delta Affairs, Mr. Kingsley Kuku, has asked Northern leaders to tell their sons and daughters to stop the insurgency.

Jigawa Command of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC, has apprehended one Adamu Abdullahi, an indigene of Bauchi State for allegedly defrauding his wife of N830,000 while she was away.

ABUJA—OVER 360,000 security personnel are expected to be deployed to provide security across the country during this year’s general elections

The persistent traffic gridlock along the Apapa – Oshodi Expressway has forced mass relocation of businesses and individuals out of Apapa, causing property rents to crash by 50 percent.

The Obi of Onitsha Igwe Alfred Achebe, weekend, during a visit of President Goodluck Jonathan to his palace, reconciled incumbent governor of the state Willie Obiano, and the immediate past governor of the state Mr. Peter Obi.

The focus is on the roles of technology and vocational education in enhancing entrepreneurial skills that will equip students for entrepreneurship education in Information and Communication Technology (ICT.) driven technological environment. The world has become globalized and the future prosperity depends on comparative advantage.