The investigative panel set up by the Inspector General of Police to investigate the violence and other offences perpetrated during the Rivers state re run election has indicted the state governor Barrister Nyesom Wike of complicity. The News Agency of Nigeria, NAN, reports that a police panel said that it recovered N111 million from 23…
AGENCY REPORT Rice is a big deal in Nigeria. People love eating it. So the BBC’s Ijeoma Ndukwe asks: why don’t they grow more of it instead of importing so much? A long line of customers queue along a glass divide separating them from a rice food station at an eatery in Lagos, Nigeria’s commercial…
Sola Jonathan in Lagos The National President of the Association of Nigerian Licensed Customs Agents (ANLCA), Prince Olayiwola Shittu has reiterated the fact that it is an aberration for the Comptroller General (CG) of the Nigerian Customs Service (NCS), Colonel Hameed Ali (rtd) to be the Chairman of the Board of the Service.. Shittu disclosed…
Two teenage girls, both armed with explosives vests around their bodies, were intercepted by security personnel near a mega fuel filling in Maiduguri, Borno State, while attempting to carry out an attack on the city, police said. Police spokesman, Victor Isuku, a deputy superintendent of Police who confirmed the incident, said one of the girls…
The Speaker of the Nigeria’s House of Representatives Yakubu Dogara said that successive administrations from 1999 to 2015 spent nearly N3 trillion on the power sector without recording much success. Mr. Dogara noted that within the stated period, when the Peoples Democratic Party controlled Nigeria at the centre, it was as if the more money…
