Following Cameroon’s fairy tale triumph at the Africa Nations Cup, Pillar of Sports Orji Uzor Kalu, has advised Eagles Manager Gernot Rohr to keep more than an eye on the team of the moment as both sides prepare to meet in the World Cup qualifiers later in the year.

The management crisis rocking the Transmission Company of Nigeria, TCN, took a different dimension, yesterday, as staff accused a cabal of allegedly using the appointment of Usman Gur Mohammed as ploy to cede the agency to African Development Bank, AfDB.

Amidst complaints of recession, hostile business environment and lack of foreign exchange, an indigenous Nigerian company has promised to give Nigerians 24 hours a day, seven days a week electricity supply.

ORHORHO—herdsmen, dressed in police uniform, armed with AK-47 rifles and other dangerous weapons, engaged a team of policemen in a gun battle, yesterday, in Delta State, leaving a number of police officers, including an Area Commander, injured, while some are missing.

MINISTER of Power, Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, told the Senate yesterday that the major factor militating against the timely completion of projects in the works sector was insufficient budgetary provision for projects to sustain annual cash flow requirement levels.

Mr. Oscar Onyema, the Chief Executive Officer, Nigerian Stock Exchange, NSE, has expressed confidence in NIPCO’s ability to ensure continuous investors interest in the capital market following its recent acquisition of 60 per cent stake in Mobil Oil Nigeria (MON).

THE Ekiti State Government will in the next two weeks begin to pay contractors with the State Universal Basic Education Board, SUBEB, owed about N850 million by administration of former Governor Kayode Fayemi.

Russia has increased government spending on the 2018 World Cup by 19.1 billion rubles ($325 million) without explanation.

A Lagos housewife, Mrs. Remi-Louis Abolore, has been arraigned before a Federal High Court sitting in Lagos, on a nine-count charge bordering on forgery, fraud and stealing.

NO fewer than 478 former employees of Plateau State government have been taken off the salary payroll for varied offences.