THE Nigerian Export Promotion Council, NEPC, yesterday accused the Nigeria Customs Service of frustrating export business at the nation’s seaports.

South West President of Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, Archbishop Magnus Atilade, has urged Christians to unite against plans to ensure Christianity was eradicated in Nigeria and Islam accepted as an official religion.

ABUJA—The Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, yesterday lamented the growing incidence of pipeline vandalism in the Niger Delta, noting that N51.28 billion was lost in the process. According to NNPC, over 643 million litres of petrol was lost in 3,000 incidences of vandalism in 2015 alone.

PORT HARCOURT— Protest has continued to trail moves by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to announce the result for the March 19 re-run election in Tai Local Government Area, Rivers State, despite an order of a Federal High Court, restraining the party from doing same.

South Africa’s retired archbishop Desmond Tutu was on Wednesday hospitalised for a nagging infection, one of his daughters said.

Mr. John Kerry, the American Secretary of State, President Barack Obama’s confidante and Mrs. Hilary Clinton’s successor in office, came to Nigeria the other day.

After her unimpressive outing at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games, Nigerian athlete Blessing Okagbare will be competing in the long jump event at the IAAF Diamond League.

Exinternational, Heny Nwosu says Super Eagles midfielder, John Mikel Obi can truly achieve his potentials if he plays from the attacking line rather than playing as a defensive player.

Former Chairman, Senate Committee on Water Resources, Senator Joseph Waku, has asked President Muhammadu Buhari to either probe former President Olusegun Obasanjo or forget about his current war against corruption in the country.

Two suspected armed bandits were on Wednesday arrested while one was killed during a gun duel with operatives of the Enugu State Police Command, police spokesperson, Mr Ebere Amaraizu, has said.

Gov. Abdulaziz Yari of Zamfara on Wednesday vowed that all those implicated in the killing of eight persons in Talata Mafara, Zamfara, would be exposed and prosecuted. The governor made the vow on Wednesday in Abuja while fielding questions from State House correspondents after a closed door meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari.

The Kano State House of Assembly on Wednesday ordered the immediate removal of all Kwankwasiyya inscriptions from public buildings in Kano metropolis and other local government areas of the state.

The wrangling within the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Bauchi state assumed a worrisome dimension on Wednesday when two groups clashed at its National Secretariat, Abuja.

THE Emir of Kano, Alhaji Muhammad Sanusi, Wednesday, urged the Federal Government to emulate Lagos State that had shown how the economy can develop without relying on a commodity to avoid the pitfalls of last administration.

Niger state government has allocated about 30,000 hectares of land in Bobi community, Mariga Local Government Area as grazing reserve for herders.