THE Senate said, yesterday, that the 1958 law under which the Nigeria Customs Service had operated was no longer acceptable.

THE Maritime Workers Union of Nigeria, MWUN, has handed Chevron Nigeria Limited, CNL, and its contractors a 14-day ultimatum to address the union’s demand for the unionization of the seafarers in the company’s operations.

THE House of Representatives, yesterday, resolved to investigate the allegations of financial misappropriation, mismanagement and executive lawlessness in the Lake Chad Basin Commission, LCBC.

Eminent lawyer and elder statesman, Aare Afe Babalola, SAN, said he was happy that Trump won while many others felt disappointed. ‘’I was happy because not a single person in my household or any of my friends gave him a chance. The Nigerian media and many Nigerians, including Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, who threatened to tear his green card if Trump won, did not give him a chance.”

Governor Ayo Fayose of Ekiti State described Trump’s victory as “the beginning of a real change in Nigeria because those who imposed the present All Progressives Congress, APC, government on Nigerians just lost out.”

The Head of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) yesterday said the United States continued to hold a pivotal role in global commerce. WTO Director-General, Roberto Azevedo, said he would support the administration of Donald Trump in ensuring trade was a positive force for job creation.

Niger Delta Avengers, NDA, Tuesday night, attacked the Forcados Export Pipeline in Delta State, the third onslaught on the facility by militants since Niger Delta leaders met with President Muhammadu Buhari on November 1, in Abuja.

Super Eagles manager, Gernot Rohr said his team was targeting a win against visiting Algerian Fennec Foxes in Saturday’s World Cup qualifiers billed for Uyo.

THE Director General of Security and Exchange Commission, SEC, Mr Munir Gwarzo, yesterday attributed the plummeting revenue base of the commission to the turbulence being experienced in the nation’s capital market.

Zamfara State government has directed security agencies to investigate the killings of local miners at Gidan Ardo village of Bindin district in Maru Local Government Area of the state.

THE Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, and Director-General, Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency, NIMASA, Dr Dakuku Peterside, have absolved themselves of any complicity in the alleged illegal printing of some election materials in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, ahead of the December 10 re-run elections in the state.

Some Nigerians say the current economic meltdown has inculcated in them, a sense of ‘financial discipline’ in their spending.

The Minister of State for Petroleum, Dr. Emmanuel Ibe Kachikwu, has written three key books on the Nigerian oil industry set for launch on Monday.

we have decided to shift the focus to female teachers in Nigeria to celebrate and recognize them in their contribution to Nation Building

The internally-displaced persons, IDPs, in Taraba State have raised alarm that they are living and sleeping with dangerous snakes, rats and other animals in the camp located at Mutum-Biu, headquarters of Gasol Local Government Area of the state.