Customs Service reshuffles Comptrollers
N750 million cargo scanner idle in Calabar port
Olam explains forays into rice farming
NB posts N24.6bn profit in six months
A/Ibom doctors shelve planned strike
Amnesty package on course — FG
PDP chieftain, others get chieftaincy titles
Oil bill: NMA makes case for victims of exploration
Drama as 2 suspects excrete 160 wraps of cocaine
Kanu Heart Foundation to help 500 heart patients
N12.50 a day keeps kids off the streets
Between amnesty and justice
Apapa Expressway Again
Kwara ex-Chief Judge booed by staff

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Trailers of wickedness on our roads
The questions that keep coming to me are: First, why are there no training schools for trailer drivers in Nigeria, and if there are none, can’t NARTO put one together? Second, why would an entrepreneur entrust the control and operation of a truck valued over N15.0 million into the hands of a driver who can neither read nor write, does not understand the road signs, who drinks and smokes all sorts? Such trucks are accidents waiting to happen.
Saraki makes case for agricultural devt
In a welcome address, Governor Saraki, who was represenred by the state Commissioner for Agriculture and Natural Resources, Prof. Mohammed Gana Yisa, listed preponderance of illiterate population, lack of management of harvest of proceeds, over reliance on rudimentary technology of hoes and overdependence on rains, untapped underground water for agriculture, the banking sector’s lack of understanding of the peculiarities of agriculture banking processes as challenges facing agriculture in Nigeria.
Creation of Jos North LG conformed with guidelines —IBB
The former president who tendered nine certified documents from the presidential library to support his presentation admitted that The Berom Elders Council wrote twice, first to kick against the creation of Jos North Local Government Area and second, calling for a revisit of the creation after it was created.
Electoral reform and the Niger Delta Technical Committee report
But thank God the day has passed for blind euphemisms. He who lives with untruth lives in spiritual slavery. Freedom is still the bonus we receive for knowing the truth. “Ye shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free.” And I ask what then is the truth? The truth is that, this is the time for Nigerians to tell each other the truth about who and what have brought us to the condition of political and social deprivation against which we struggle today.
Petroleum Bill: Igbini accuses govs of misleading S-South people
In an online statement yesterday, Igbini said,“ wheras, I totally condemn as immoral and unconstitutional the decision of the Federal Executive Council to downgrade and ultimately destroy the Petroleum Training Institute (PTI), Effurun, while upgrading the College of Petroleum Studies in Kaduna, the current proposed Nigerian PIB, if passed into law, will better serve the national interest and more, particularly, the interest and benefits of the exploited and deprived people of the oil producing communities in the South-South.

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