“I thank God for such a special day. Getting married is a milestone in the life of a man; to get married to a woman who you love and who loves you makes it even more special,” Onazi said in the New Year.

“Mikel played very well. He is the ideal player to bring balance to the team. He knows the game very well and how to cope. To watch a player defend so elegantly is a beautiful thing,” said Hiddink of the Nigerian midfielder.

He pointed out that 900,000 litres divided by 5,000 litres comes down to about 180 and should this be multipled by N600 million, it comes down to N108,000,000,000.00. A large chunk of this amount is lost daily through smuggling of the product, he said. This is outside the revenue that should have been collected by the various government agencies like the NPA, NIMASA, NCS etc should these ships had berthed at the nation’s ports.

LAGOS—Two suspected pipeline vandals, who were arrested weekend in Isolo area of Lagos by operatives of the Inspector General of Police Anti Pipeline Vandalisation Unit, have alleged that soldiers aided them to load their truck in a creek at Ijedodo area.

Abuja — The Nigerian Meteorological Agency (NiMet) has predicted dusty weather conditions over the central states of the country, today.

The Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority, NCAA, has lifted the sanction it imposed on Lubcon from supplying aviation fuel to domestic and foreign airlines at airports in Nigeria with immediate effect.

BEFORE 2003, there was progression in the incidence of HIV/AIDS in Nigeria. Records show that from 1991 – 1999 the HIV prevalence increased from 1.8 percent to 5.4 percent. It dropped to 4.1 percent in 2011 and further dropped to 3.8 percent in 2013.

AS the world moves from the Millennium Development Goals, MDGs, to the Sustainable Development Goals, SDGs, from January 1, 2016, an Uyo- based non-governmental organisation, Policy Alert, has urged Akwa Ibom State Government to develop strategies aimed at ensuring timely and successful implementation of the new initiative at the community level.

ABUJA— The Minister of Communications, Mr Abdur-Raheem Shittu, has assured that no Nigerian telecom subscriber would be shortchanged by any service provider under his watch in view of the increasing complaints of poor quality of service and regulatory deficiencies.

ABUJA — The Petroleum Products Pricing Regulatory Agency, PPPRA, weekend, stated that from its monitoring activities in Abuja and across the country, the level of compliance by petrol stations to the new fuel price was satisfactory.