The Benue Police Commend on Monday confirmed the assassination of the All Progressives Congress (APC) youth leader in Tarka Local Government by suspected Fulani herdsmen.

Police are looking into sexual threats made on Twitter against the one-year-old daughter of Leicester City and England striker Jamie Vardy.

The recently held two-day National Economic Council (NEC) Retreat ended with a number of resolutions. The expectation of most Nigerians is that the meeting will come up with an economic agenda that reflects the change in approach to governance and economic management. The retreat started with a fanfare that looked like some serious economic policy outline was going to come out of it. At the end of the meeting, Nigerians were disappointed with the outcome.

Tomato paste manufacturers across the country have decried the $1billion (N12billion) spent annually by Nigerians on tomato paste importation. Financial Vanguard investigation showed that there is enough local production capacity to meet national demand. However despite local capacity to supply the Nigerian market, importation of the product at dumping price is suppressing local production. As a result of local producers’ inability to cope with the current level of dumping of the commodity via import, over 3,000 jobs have been lost across the industry. Tomato paste is not a prohibited item, but Nigeria manufacturers said, they have the capacity to meet demand.

The National Association of Resident Doctors of Nigeria (NARD) says it has served the Federal Government with a 21-day notice to meet their demands or face an indefinite strike.

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The Minister of State for Agriculture, Senator Heineken Lokpobiri, on Monday, affirmed that no amount of blackmail would distract him from discharging his functions in the cabinet of President Muhammadu Buhari.

Perturbed by the rising wave of of kidnapping and other forms of crime in Kaduna State, the Inspector General of Police, IGP Solomon Arase has directed the Assistant Inspector General of Police in charge Zone 7, AIG Ballah Nasarawa to relocate to Kaduna State.

President Muhammadu Buhari has stressed the urgent need to ensure that the potentials of Nigeria are harnessed and used for the good of the country.

Global accountancy firm KPMG’s South African arm has severed its ties with a company owned by the Guptas, a family of Indian-born businessmen, according to an internal circular.