ABUJA — THE Nigerian Ports Authority, NPA, said yesterday, that the country lost $248,238,305 and N3.558 billion between 2009 and 2015 to indiscriminate waivers.

Governor Udom Emmanuel of Akwa Ibom State has tasked the state Technical Committee for the Realization of Ibom Deep Sea Port, TC-IDSP, and the consultants involved in the project to ensure completion of the project by 2018.

President Muhammadu Buhari last week presented to the National Assembly the Federal Government’s proposal to spend N500 billion on the youth and other vulnerable groups in 2016. The proposal is contained in the 2016-2018 Medium Term Expenditure Framework and Fiscal Strategy Paper.

LAGOS—Two suspected car snatchers, arrested by operatives of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad, SARS, attached to the Lagos State Police Command, have revealed how they graduated from snatching phones to car robbery.

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Bauchi — The Assistant Inspector General of Police, Zone 12 in charge of Bauchi, Yobe and Borno states, Mr Tunde Ogunsakin, has reiterated the commitment of the police to stamp out insurgency by the December deadline given by President Muhammadu Buhari.

Brig-General E. A. Ransome-Kuti has petitioned the Minister of Defence, alleging that other alleged subordinate officers in the Multi-National Joint Task Force, MNJTF, charged and tried alongside with him for the same offences were discharged and acquitted, whereas he was unreasonably convicted by the Special Court-Martial.

A chieftain of All Progressives Congress, APC, in Delta State, Pastor Power Aginighan, has condemned the manner the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, forcefully re-arrested the immediate past Director General, Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency, NIMASA, Dr Ziakede Akpobolokemi, at the premises of the Federal High Court in Lagos.

ON May 13, 2015, President Goodluck Jonathan signed the Administration of Criminal Justice Bill into law. Both chambers of the National Assembly had passed the bill to modernise our criminal justice system. In particular, the law has abolished stay of proceedings and interlocutory appeals by merging all preliminary objections with the substantive case in any criminal case instituted in a federal court in the country.

IF all goes according to plan for Airtel Nigeria, it would have made millionaires out of sixty Nigerians, and offered 240 more an all expense paid trip to Dubai at the end of this year’s new launched Red Hot promo.

Lagos—A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos, yesterday, heard a contempt charge filed against Ecobank Nigeria Limited by Honeywell Flour Mills Plc, Anchorage Leisures Limited and Siloam Global Services Limited. It also adjourned till January 15, 2016 to rule on the suit.

Lagos—The Minister of Transport, Mr. Rotimi Amaechi yesterday commended the aviation agencies, namely Nigeria Civil Aviation Authority, NCAA and Nigeria Airspace Management Authority, NAMA, for introducing electronic clearance system for flights at the airports.

Lagos—Justice Ibrahim Buba of a Federal High Court sitting in Lagos, yesterday, sentenced nine foreign citizens to five years imprisonment each after convicting them for stealing 3,423,097 metric tons of crude oil from Nigeria.

Twenty one players have so far reported to the Super Eagles training camp in Abuja ahead of next month’s CHAN in Rwanda, officials have said. And the players have started training, under the supervision of assistant coach, Salisu Yusuf and goalkeeper trainer, Alloy Agu.

Lagos—Governor Akinwunmi Ambode of Lagos State yesterday assured Lagosians of his determination to judiciously utilize the resources garnered from the people for the overall well-being of the State Ambode restated his commitment at the ninth Town Hall Meeting on Security put together by the Lagos State Security Trust Fund, LSSTF, with the theme: “Refreshing Our Security Model”.