Managing Director for Programme Development and Technical Cooperation Division of the United Nation International Development Organization (UNIDO), Philippe Scholtes has announced a $2.6 million support fund for rural electricity programme in Nigeria.

Senate President, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki, on Monday said the nation’s political office holders have no choice but to deliver on their promises to the people.

NO directive on ARVs: There is no Federal government directive for PLWA to start paying. What happened is that we have to be creative, since the donor agencies are withdrawing. We cannot close down the clinic and let tPLWA go away, and we also have project staff in the clinic that are not NIMR staff that we could not dismiss. So, I had to write a memo to the then Minister of Health, Prof. Onyebuchi Chukwu, stating that the funding agencies are withdrawing and we still have cases of HIV. Suggestions were made to reabsorb the staff; otherwise if we allow them to go, it means that the clinic will close down. So eventually we had to reabsorb the staff and keep the clinic going.

Manchester United may officially be keeping quiet about the future of Louis van Gaal but the manager accepts his position is being increasingly called into question by the club’s fans.

Ivorian striker Gervinho has moved a step closer to the Roma exit door after saying farewell to teammates ahead of an expected move to Chinese side Hebei Fortune, reports said Monday.