Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC, has threatened to sanction telecommunication service providers in the country over poor quality of service, drop calls and unsolicited text messages sent to subscribers.

THE Federal Government said it is ready to produce 2.6 million metric tons of paddy rice in 2013 dry season farming following the success it recorded in the wet season rice cultivation and production.

Stakeholders in the maritime industry have kicked against the recent introduction of 75 percent levy on imported fairly used vehicles, popularly called “Tokunbo,” warning that the new policy would have adverse effect on the nation’s economy.

GOVERNOR Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State has appealed to the Head of Service of the Federation to prevail on some federal parastatals and agencies in the state to defray the outstanding N2 billion tax liabilities to the state government.

FORMER Federal Commissioner for Information and South-South Leader, Chief Edwin Clark, has called on striking Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, to have a rethink over the protracted strike, pleading that the action has been carried too far.

Mama Obi, as she is fondly called, recounted how she was forced to relocate to Lagos in July this year, in search of medical assistance and succour. Unfortunately, she became stranded, and has since pitched tent under the bridge at Ojuelegba.

Kebbi Government, yesterday, issued an indefinite restriction order on the movement of private and commercial motorcycles between 7 p.m. and 6 a.m.

Delta State House of Assembly, yesterday, in Asaba, passed the state’s 2013 Appropriation Amendment Bill authorizing the spending of re-ordered N58.2 billion.

Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC, has threatened to sanction telecommunication service providers in the country over poor quality of service, drop calls and unsolicited text messages sent to subscribers.

Kano State Government yesterday dismissed speculations making the rounds that it had become bankrupt.

Over 1,000 Nigerians are said to be on death row in various prisons across the country just as only four executions of condemned prison inmates had been carried out in the country in the last one year.

Convoys as agents of death, torture and oppression

A daring Boko Haram raid in the north Nigerian city of Maiduguri was an embarrassing setback for the security forces, further eroding claims the Islamists have been significantly weakened, analysts said on Tuesday.

The Plateau Police Command, yesterday, said it would henceforth regard cattle rustlers as armed robbers.

A Professor of Law in the University of Ilorin, Wahab Egbewole has faulted the present composition of Nigerian Judicial Commission, NJC, saying that it cannot guarantee a corrupt- free judiciary in the country.