THE National Council of Managing Directors of Licensed Customs Agents, (NCMDLCA) has faulted the current cargo inspection processes, which it believed caused a rise in influx of offensive imports like arms and ammunitions.

THE manner of Arsenal’s defeat to Bayern Munich showed the Gunners players have no faith left in manager Arsene Wenger, according to Oliver Kahn.

One of the most frequently asked questions this week is, which Andrew? There was once an Andrew in the first coming of President Muhammadu Buhari who popularised that name.

It was wailing and cursing yesterday morning at Iju, a suburb of Lagos, when an unidentified young girl, who had gone to buy petrol, was crushed to death by a moving train at Fagba rail-crossing.

The Governing board of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) has promised to resuscitate the dilapidated Nigerian Maritime Resource and Development Centre (NMRDC) and ensure that its up and functional, Chairman Governing board of NIMASA, Major General Garba Jonathan (rtd), stated this in Lagos yesterday after taking a tour of the Centre, at Kirikiri, Lagos.

Residents of Umuode community, Osisoma Ngwa council area, Abia State have protested the poor electricity supply and high bills being issued to them by the Enugu Electricity Distribution Company, EEDC.

—THE Edo State Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB) has commenced a state wide monitoring of schools across the three senatorial districts of the state.

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, yesterday, arraigned one Bashir Ishaq Bashir alongside his companies, Leda Greenpower Consortium, Leda Greenpower Nigeria Limited and Leda Consortium Limited before Justice S.E. Aladetoyinbo of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT High Court, Maitama, on a three-count charge of obtaining by false pretence and cheating to the tune of $1 million.

The Esama of Ukepedi Kingdom in Ughelli, Delta State, Olorogun Okiemute Okwagbe, has given his support to the January 2, 2017, election, held at Uvwiamuge, Ughelli North Local Government Area, that produced Olorogun Moses Taiga as the newly elected President-General of Urhobo Progress Union, UPU.

The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and Association of Local Governments of Nigeria, ALGON, have congratulated Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of Enugu State on the Appeal Court judgment in Abuja which affirmed his emergence as the governorship candidate of the PDP duly elected at the December 4, 2014 primary election for the 2015 general elections.

For years they wallowed in privation and suffering simply because they are indigent, a situation made worse by the fact that many of them are disabled and could barely fend for themselves. Even the hand outs they receive infrequently from kind-hearted individuals could only but meet their survival needs and no more.

Hon Suraj Adekunbi has been the Speaker of Ogun House of Assembly spanning the 7th and current 8th Assemblies. Since 2011 when he became Speaker the Assembly seemed to have run on auto-pilot. He got re-elected after the 2015 election, returning as the Speaker of the Assembly to continue to paddle the canoe of the legislative arm.

By Victoria Ojeme, with agency report New York—The UN Security Council will be visiting Nigeria within the next few weeks to discuss strategies for combating the destructive Boko Haram insurgents and  assess the level of humanitarian crisis caused by the terrorist group. The UN also said in Abuja, yesterday, that it was working towards ending […]

KOKODI-AGBENE community of Gbaramatu in Warri South-West Local Government Area, Delta State is warming up to occupy Chevron Nigeria Limited, CNL, facility in the area as the 14-day ultimatum expires today.

FLORENCE Onyebuchi Emecheta, one of Nigeria’s most skilled novelists, passed away last month (January 25), aged 72, and was buried in London this week.