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The Federal Government has restated its readiness to shut down the land border between Nigeria and a neighbouring country in a few days to avoid smuggling of foreign rice into the country. Speaking with youths in a leadership clinic under the auspices of Guardians of the Nation International, GOTNI, Chief Audu Ogbeh, Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, stated this Monday but did not mention the particular country and border. Ogbeh said that shutting the borders had become necessary to encourage local production and sustain the economy of the country. The minister said that a neighbouring country was bent on…

The $370 Abacha loot earlier negotiated with the Swiss authorities is in the kitty of Central Bank of Nigeria, Federal Government has confirmed. Abubakar Malami, the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, who stated this did not say how much was involved in the new round of discussion. Meanwhile, top officials of Federal Government, United Kingdom, United States of America and Jersey met Monday to work out the final modalities for return of $500 million Abacha loot frozen by the American government. The meeting, which was held at the Nigerian High Commission in London, was attended by…

In this interview, Mr. Unyime Idem, managing director, Idems Ultimate Limited and Chairman, Standford Microfinance Bank limited, speaks about his educational background, business indulgence, visions in life, challenges and achievements as the biggest telecom partner in the country.

Amidst wailing by relations and colleagues, a 23-year-old medical student of the University of Port Harcourt (UNIPORT), Rivers State who died at a football pitch was, Monday, buried in Uyo, Akwa Ibom capital. Christian Edet Bassey who was a part-two student of the Department of Physiology in the Faculty of Medical, Pharmaceutical and Health Sciences of the university was alleged to have slumped and died while he was playing football at the UNIPORT sports ground Thursday last week at 5 p.m. An indigene of Ikot Akpan Ike in Nsit Atai local government area of Akwa Ibom State, he was…

Chief John Oyegun, the outgoing National Chairman of All Progressives Congress, APC, is in the eye of the storm again as he is accused of destroying internal democracy, guidelines and constitution of the party in the conduct of the last congresses in the state. At a press conference in Abakaliki, Senator Julius Ucha, the Governorship candidate in the 2015 general election, Ebonyi state, alleged that the last congresses which took place in the state did not represent the true wishes of APC supporters, pointing out that the implication of the development might lead to the nullification of the congresses whenever…

Against accusation in some quarters that Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has started sale of forms, Colonel Austin Akobundu, retd, PDP National Organizing Secretary has dismissed the claim that the party has issued guidelines for the conduct of its Presidential primaries and settled for N12 million as cost of its Expression of Interest and Presidential Nomination Form as baseless. In a statement signed by Akobundu, the party said it was not done yet with the guidelines, let alone settling for the the cost of nomination forms. “We wish to state categorically that the party is still in the process…

More than 2,000 residents of Gudunbali in Guzamalla local government area of Borno State who ran away from their homes, in the wake of Bok Haram terrorists, have returned to their ancestral homes six years after. The development followed the successful clearance of the terrorists in the area by troops of Operation Lafiya Dole, battling the insurgents in the state. Texas Chukwu, Army spokesperson, a Brigadier General, in a statement, who stated this Sunday, also said the feat coincided with the flag off of Operation Last Hold, Army special Operation intended to finally flush out the remnants of the…

The rupture of a major Nigerian Gas Company, NGC, pipeline has caused power generation drop by 1,087 megawatts and scuttled the delivery of gas to six power plants. Confirming the development, the Transmission Company of Nigeria, TCN, stated that the incident which occurred on the June 15, 2018, as well as technical issues at the Shell gas wells on the 16th of June have compelled the company to embark on load shedding. TCN stated that the load-shedding was adopted in order to maintain stability of the national grid, thus avoiding total power system collapse, as there has been…

                                                 Street Interview “If my wife was not on duty on Thursday, June 14, 2018, certainly she would have been home, as a football fan, watching the opening ceremony of the World Cup, and, probably she would have been affected by the thunder that struck my house. If my househelp was not in the kitchen behind the main building, cooking with firewood- if she was cooking with gas in the main building kitchen, she would probably have died too of shock or the shrapnels from the blast that shook the sitting room.” Stunned Okon Nnaetuk sends this sad story to…

A major upset occurred in the ongoing FIFA World Cup in Russia Sunday as Germany, the reigning World Cup champions bowed to the fireworks of Mexico by 0-1. “I don’t know if it’s the biggest win in (Mexico’s) history but doubtless it is one of the biggest for sure,” Lozano said. Toni Kroos crashed a shot against the crossbar for Germany but they were never able to get back in the match at the Luzhniki Stadium in Moscow as they slid to their first defeat in their opening game of a World Cup since 1982. The loss leaves the Germans…