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Officials of the Lagos State Environmental Sanitation Corps Agency (LASECORPS) have arrested six motorists at the Ikeja Along end of the Lagos-Abeokuta Expressway for allegedly buying goods in the traffic. The offenders’ vehicles, a Honda Accent, Hiace, Toyota Hilux, Toyota Sienna, taxi cab and commercial bus, were also impounded by the agency. We learnt that four passengers and nine hawkers …

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on Monday recovered €547,730 and £21,090 as well as N5,648,500 from a Bureau de Change operator in Balogun Market, Lagos. The figure, it was learnt, sums up to N250,558,670 when converted to naira, according to the EFCC. The recovery comes less than four days after the commission recovered over N480m from an abandoned shop …

Kaduna State Governor, Nasir el-Rufai, on Monday, accepted the challenge of the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Mr. Yabubu Dogara, by releasing details of his security vote, salary and allowances. The governor also released the disbursements to the 23 Local Government Areas in the state. El-Rufai, while releasing the details, again challenged the National Assembly members to do likewise. …

A private electricity generating company, Paras Energy & Natural Resources Development Limited, plans to sell some megawatts of electricity outside Nigeria. This was disclosed in a communiqué issued at the end of the 14th monthly meeting of the Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Mr. Babatunde Fashola, with operators of the power sector, on Monday at the National Control Centre, …

Germany and Italy stressed Tuesday the need for a political solution in Syria, where the U.S. has intervened with missile strikes in response to a chemical weapons attack on civilians. Foreign ministers from the Group of Seven (G7), which comprises the U.S., Britain, Germany, France, Italy, Japan and Canada, discussed the crisis with representatives from the European Union and several …

The United State is said to be ready to sell high-tech aircraft to Nigeria for its campaign against Boko Haram Islamic extremists. The Congress according to thewillnigeria.com is expected to receive formal notification setting in motion a deal with Nigeria which the Obama administration had planned to approve at the very end of Barack Obama’s presidency. The arrangement will call …

President Muhammadu Buhari is not satisfied with the way some corruption-related cases are being handled by relevant government agencies since the inception of his administration. The President, it was further learnt, had therefore directed the heads of the agencies to put their houses in order so that the ongoing anti-corruption war can be won by the Federal Government. A top …

Emir of Kano, Muhammadu Sanusi’s recent criticism of northern leaders is the root of a heated controversy over the region’s economic challenges; report Associate Editor, Sam Egburonu, Abdulgafar Alabelewe, Kaduna and Kolade Adeyemi, Kano It was designed to be a sober economic summit, Wednesday, April 5, 2017, in Kaduna State. But by the time the Emir of Kano, Muhammadu Sanusi …

The Joint Admissions and MatriculationS Board yesterday announced extension of registration for the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) by two weeks. The extension covers April 19 – 5th May. The examination body also announced suspension of the conduct of its mock examination scheduled to hold yesterday in some selected centres across the country indefinitely. JAMB registrar, Prof. Is-haq Oloyede, told …

Dr Ghaji Bello, Director General of the National Population Commission says the National Population Census will hold in 2018 if necessary logistics are provided. Bello, in an interview with News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in New York on Sunday, said that the exercise should have been conducted in 2016 in line with international practice. “If we are given all the …