The UK's National Lottery operator Camelot today stepped up its efforts to appease regulators over plans to offer extra commercial services through its terminals.

Supermarket giant Tesco today distanced itself from a report that it could bid for the next licence to run the UK's National Lottery.

TENS of millions of Nigerian workers began a four-day nationwide strike over rising fuel prices as labour leaders launched their latest challenge to President Olusegun Obasanjo’s economic reforms.

Brent crude oil prices fell sharply in the London midmorning trade.

NIGERIAN unions prepared last night to call off a crippling general strike that had paralysed the world’s eighth-biggest oil exporter after reaching a deal with the government on a compromise price for petrol.