I’ve never seen a set of people who crave imported goods more than Nigerians; so much so that somebody once said if excreta is packaged and imported from abroad, they will buy,” stated Emmanuel this Friday morning in the Apapa-bound bus.

MEMBER of the Golden Eaglets class of 1985 that won the inaugural Fifa Under 16 World Cup are all smiles after the Federal Government kept its promise of paying the players their cash rewards.

THE Nigerian Riverine Security (Coast Guard of the Federation), Warri, Delta State and the Oodua Peoples Congress, OPC, based in the South-West region, have teamed up to check the activities of pipeline vandals, sea pirates and oil thieves in the coastal areas of the country.

Akure—It was a mix of political and economic ideologies at the Ondo State 40th Anniversary Symposium in Akure yesterday, as former Secretary General of the Commonwealth, Emeka Anyaoku, threw his weight behind President Muhammadu Buhari on his stand not to devalue the nation’s currency.

ABUJA— THE Senate, yesterday, passed resolutions asking the Federal Government to urgently terminate the 2013 contract between the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, and SystemSpecs.

The Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, yesterday in Anambra State, embarked on spiritual warfare in its agitation for the release of their incarcerated leader and Director of Radio Biafra, Mr. Nnamdi Kanu, with a prayer session and fasting in some parts of the state.

ABUJA — THE House of Representatives, yesterday, directed its Committee on Petroleum Upstream, and Public Procurement to probe an alleged $260 million “illegal” contract by National Petroleum Investment Management Services, NAPIMS, a subsidiary of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC.

CALL it a game of cat and mouse you will not be wrong. But it is a game where the mouse surprisingly appears to be having the upper hand, using a combination of guile and subterfuge to outsmart the bewildered cat. This is the story playing out between the Department of Petroleum Resources, DPR, and petroleum products marketing companies in Nigeria.

LAST week’s call by Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, on President Muhammadu Buhari to summon a conference of eggheads to help him chart ways out of our current economic woes was more loaded than met the ordinary eyes. It was a message garbed with uncaccustomed subtlety from Soyinka, who is usually finger-in-your-eye with words when addressing what he perceives as lapses in a regime he does not fancy.

ABUJA — The Nigerian Army said, Tuesday night, that troops of 7 Division of Nigerian Army and Cameroonian forces killed 20 Boko Haram terrorists and destroyed four AK-47 rifles.

SINCE the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, fixed March 5, 2016 as the date for the rerun of the Anambra Central senatorial election, it would appear that 11 of the 12 candidates qualified to participate in the re-run after the disqualification of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and its candidate, are not taking the exercise serious.

ABUJA— MTN has withdrawn its suit against the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) and paid N50 billion ($250 million) towards an amicable resolution of the fine imposed on the telecoms giant.

The Supreme Court, yesterday, refused application by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, seeking a review of the judgment it delivered on January 29, which resolved the protracted leadership crisis that rocked the Anambra State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.

Super Eagles coach, Sunday Oliseh will not be meeting with Nigeria Football Federation technical committee, to defend his plans for the Africa Cup of Nations qualifiers against Egypt billed for March 25.

There was heavy shooting around New GRA, Port Harcourt, Rivers State, yesterday, a day after military personnel clashed with militants in Bori, Khana Local Government Area of the state, in which about nine persons were feared killed.