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.

Taxes are hardly welcome with a smile. Even in jurisdictions where public funds are judiciously husbanded, taxes are often treated with as much dislike as for leprosy! As such, I was not surprised that my call for creative taxation has attracted an admixture of commendation and condemnation. One has learnt to take both with equanimity.

It was meant to be a brief interaction to discuss something very private. But it ended up a long exciting day. It was rewarding in terms of ideas exchanged. I was better informed on a variety of issues some of which are better reserved for another day even as some are not for public consumption. It was a worthwhile day. From politics to social and personal life and from state of Nigerian economy to sports. And in sports, the discussion was further broken down from football to athletics. Yes, sports excites. And it takes not only skills and knowledge but also passion to attain the height Mike Itemuagbor has reached in sports.

Worried by the disturbing trend of closure of street gates across the State, the Lagos State Government on Monday, ordered immediate re-opening of all street gates and barricades in the nook and cranny of the State between 5am and 12 mid-night daily, just as it warned that defaulting streets would have their gates pulled down within the next seven days.

FCT Police arrest fake lunatic with firearm NAN-DS-6 Arrest Abuja, Jan. 25, 2016 (NAN) The FCT Police Command said it had arrested a male suspect who pretended to be a lunatic on Jan. 20 around the Apo bridge. Mr Wilson Inalegwu, the FCT Commissioner of Police, made the disclosure while briefing newsmen on Monday in Abuja. Inalegwu said that the suspect was apprehended by a police patrol team on a stop-and-search duty, following a tip-off.

Two witnesses brought before a Federal High Court in Abuja by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission have told the court how the spokesperson of the Peoples Democratic Party, Olisa Metuh, and his company, Dextra Investments Limited, transferred the sum of $2million allegedly collected from the office of the National Security Adviser, Sambo Dasuki.