The Coordinating Minister for the Economy and Minister of Finance, Dr. Ngozi okonjo-Iweal, disclosed, Tuesday, that the task of managing the nation’s economy has given her, the Minister of State, Amb. Bashir Yuguda , the Permanent Secretary of the ministry, Mrs Anastasia Daniel-Nwaobia and about 70 per cent of the ministry’s staff High Blood Pressure.

Troops killed 28 suspected militants during a weekend operation in central Nigeria launched in response to an attack last month which saw six soldiers gruesomely murdered, the military said Monday.

Schools and local government secretariats in Plateau were sealed up by labour leaders on Tuesday following the commencement of strike by workers over non-payment of salaries by the state government

UKWO—THE people of Ukwo and Etebi communities in Esit Eket Local Government Area, Akwa-Ibom State, have praised the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, for constructing the long- abandoned access road to the communities. Group youth leader of Ukwo-Etebi, Mr. Prince Bassey, who spoke with the Niger Delta Voice during a visit to the area, noted that the communities were among the predominantly endowed towns in the state contributing to the national economy, but had been neglected for a long time.

Agriculture and rural development minister, Akinwumi AdesinaTuesday said the alleged rice import duty scam that was widely reported to be N21billion was actually N36billion that needed to be paid into federal coffers.

“I am the initiator for better life for oil communities in the state, the founding father of HOSTCOM and former chairman of DESOPADEC, I can tell you with all due respects that the governor is doing the right thing. What he is doing now is what we initially planned, DESOPADEC is a temporal arrangement and the bill should be passed.”

My elder brother is 34 and lives at home with my parents, who have pampered him all his whole life. This has always made my blood boil, especially now that one of his casual girlfriends has a child by him. My parents have no financial help from him and watch his son while he sleeps off hangovers. It’s doubtful if he makes anything from the contracts he lies he’s after.

Five thousand people have fled islands in Lake Chad in southeastern Niger over fears of new Boko Haram attacks after a bloody April assault, several sources told AFP on Monday

WARRI—FOR Warri billionaire and symbol of Itsekiri youth leadership, Chief Ayirimi Emami, no amount of wealth and fame can make him forfeit the street sense and life he had embraced from childhood, especially in the tough neighborhood of Okere community where he was born and bred. For this reason as he turned 40, penultimate Sunday, he did not choose his palatial Ubeji home or some five -star hotel in town as the spot to draw together his family and friends to share the bliss of the anniversary.

In the period before South African independence from the Apartheid regime in 1994, the all-white dominated government in that country had instigated black-on-black violence (pitting the Zulus under Chief Buthelezi against other tribes)in order to weaken the liberation efforts of the African National Congress (ANC) led by Nelson Mandela, who was in prison then