Two British men are believed to have made millions of euros in just over a year by smuggling Chinese garlic from Norway into Sweden, a prosecutor in Gothenburg said Wednesday.

As the National Summit on Security Challenges jointly organised by Vanguard Media and the Nigeria Police entered the second day, some participants at the summit have blamed the incessant violent crises in Nigeria on the leaders of the two major religions in the country.

A fire explosion on board a ship servicing MRS Oil and Gas Tank Farm at the Tin-Can Island Port, Apapa, Lagos occurred on Wednesday, disrupting major operations at the depot.

FORMER State Security Service, SSS chief and security consultant, Barr. Mike Ejiofor, saw the summit as a good development which would help policing in Nigeria because it provided a platform where different people came with different presentations for Nigeria to have a secured country. While urging other security agencies to key into the initiative, Ejiofor hoped that the forum would lead to transformation of the country via police force.

There are no plans by the governors of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) to remove the party’s National Chairman, Alhaji Bamanga Tukur, as speculated in some quarters, an official said. 

Abuja – The Minister of Health, Prof. Onyebuchi Chukwu has said equipment used for verifying the genuineness of drugs by NAFDAC would be distributed to hospitals. The minister made the statement when he paid impromptu visits to National Agency for Food, Administration and Control (NAFDAC) and the National Institute for Pharmaceutical Research and Development (NIPRD) […]

To generate more funds, the University of Ilorin will soon start production of bottled water for public consumption.

Gov. Emmanuel Uduaghan of Delta has promised that the state capital Asaba will adorn a new and befitting look as the best state capital in Nigeria. 

The brawl between the Director-General of the Securities and Exchange Commission, SEC, Ms Arunma Oteh and the National Assembly assumed a new dimension three weeks ago when the later announced zero budget for SEC in 2013, as well as directing that no revenue generated internally by the Commission should be expended for any reason. NKIRUKA NNOROM traces the genesis of the issue and concludes that they are just fanning their egos at the expense of the market.

THE theoretical case for the emergence of a Nigerian president of Igbo extraction has been eloquently established beyond any reasonable doubt. The economic case is persuasive; the legal case, which is a derivate of the constitutional principle of federal character, is incontrovertible; the political case is self-evident and the moral case is utterly compelling.

THE Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, is borrowing from at least 10 banks and using revenue from oil production to help clear a long-overdue $3.5 billion debt owed to foreign fuel traders.

The Peoples Democratic Party has explained that it deferred the election of its chairman of the Board of Trustees in order to align members of the board to ensure that whoever emerged would not only be credible but acceptable to the generality of its members.

Pirates have freed three Italian sailors they abducted from a ship off Nigeria last month, the foreign ministry said in a statement Wednesday

Ghana will try again at the 2013 Africa Cup of Nations to bridge the ever-widening gap since they last lifted the most prized piece of football silverware on the continent.

OYO State Police Command has arrested a soldier, Bada Yusuf in connection with the kidnap of an Indian, Manoj K. Singh-Kumasi last Wednesday.