BP has agreed to buy a 10 percent stake in a giant offshore gas field in Egypt. The company paid $375 million (£297.9m) for the share of Eni’s Shorouk Concession, which includes the Zohr gas field. It is believed to be the largest gas discovery in the Mediterranean, containing an estimated 850 billion cubic metres of gas.

Shipping Corporation of India (SCI) will resume sailing to Iran this month after a four-year gap, transporting an oil cargo for a state-run refiner, the chairman of India’s biggest shipping company said on Tuesday.

THE Kaduna State chapter of Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, yesterday, kicked against reports that the state government had located herdsmen involved in clashes in Southern Kaduna, so they can be compensated.

The Ebonyi State Commissioner for Information, Senator Emmanuel Onwe has justified the banning of the sale and consumption of foreign rice as part of the state government’s moves to uphold the health and well being of the populace.

Kaduna State government has officially labelled the Shiite Islamic Movement of Nigeria, IMN, an insurgent group, as contained in a white paper by the state government in Kaduna, yesterday.

Ikeja Electric Plc (IE), one of Nigeria’s leading Electricity Distribution companies, has carried out an oral hygiene intervention campaign across five primary schools within its network where the pupils were taught the fundamentals of dental care.

STAKEHOLDERS from Esan Central Local Government Area of Edo State have appealed to Governor Godwin Obaseki to correct what they described as the imbalance in the sharing of political appointments among the four autonomous communities that make up the local government in the interest of equity and fair play.

Nigeria music icon, Yemi Alade, has taken the lead in spreading Shell’s make-the-future campaign which aims to inspire youths and entrepreneurs for bright energy ideas that can help in the global quest for more and cleaner energy.

The UEFA Champions League enters the final games for the group stage and these are the matches to look out for.

PRO-BIAFRA group, Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, has told the Federal Government, as well as the security agencies that they cannot pull a wool’ over their eyes and Nigerians by using what it called, a ‘non-existent group,’ to deceive Nigerians.