Nigeria is receiving more positive global attention. Beginning from the immediate past regime, one sector stood out in global reckoning about Nigeria: that is agriculture. In the June 20, 2015 edition of the Economist magazine, an article on Nigeria was titled ‘After Oil’. The article stated amongst other things that falling oil prices have left a deep hole in the government’s finances, but the economy is beginning to diversify.

Customs agents in connivance with officials of the Nigeria Customs Service are circumventing the fast track cargo clearing process at the nation’s sea ports. Vanguard gathered that the issue of flying containers without recourse to paying accruable duties is being perpetrated mainly by some Customs officials at the Customs Investigations Unit CIU and select staff of some terminal operators at the main gate said to be responsible for signing the Terminal Delivery Order TDO for these agents.

Corporal Victor Edet, a policeman attached to Anambra State headquarters of Special Anti-Robbery Squad, SARS, Awkuzu as at 2009, yesterday, at an Onitsha High Court, displayed the weapons of mass destruction used by a gang of armed robbers/kidnappers who abducted the chairman of GUO Motors Limited, Chief Godwin Ubaka Okeke, on Sunday, August 23, 2009.

A CHIEFTAIN of All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, in Abia State, Chief David Bourdex Onuoha, has called on the management of National Assembly to place lawmakers with cases at tribunals on half pay, pending the resolution of their cases.

SENATE President, Bukola Saraki, yesterday, announced Senator Ali Ndume, representing Borno North Senatorial District on the platform of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, as the Senate Majority Leader.