Why grains importation won’t happen soon – Stakeholders
There may be delay in implementation of the zero-tariff grains importation policy of the federal government as Financial Vanguard reliably learnt at the weekend that the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) is yet to receive a comprehensive list of the firms to select for participation in the intervention programme.
We won’t sack civil servants, says FG
Following the heat generated by the call of the Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Mallam Lamido Sanusi on the Federal Government to sack half of its workforce, the Minister of Labour and Productivity, Chief Chukwuemeka Wogu, yesterday, assured that no worker would lose his job as the government was even desirous of creating more jobs for Nigerians.
INSECURITY: National Assembly no longer safe – REPS
Following the brazen manner with which gunmen attacked both military and police facilities in Abuja and Jaji few days ago, killing soldiers, policemen and civilians alike, members of the House of Representatives, yesterday, declared the National Assembly complex unsafe.
Auchi under siege….Robbers kill 3 soldiers, 15 civilians
Soldiers, last night, seized Auchi inEdoState where robbers, Monday night, used dynamites to blast four banks.
SARS attack: No suspected terrorist escaped – police
Gunmen, yesterday, launched an attack on the headquarters of the Special Anti Robbery Squad, SARS, Abuja believed to be holding suspected Islamist extremists, killing two officers and leading to the escape of 30 detainees.
Many killed as suicide bombers hit military church in Jaji
Over 11 persons were feared dead, yesterday and several others seriously injured when a suicide bomber rammed into theSaint AndrewsProtestantChurch, inside the Army Cantonment, Jaji, inKaduna.
