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.
Subsidy: Govs protest heavy deductions
Fresh trouble is brewing between governors of the 36 states and the Federal Government over heavy deductions from the Federation Account in the name of fuel subsidy.
Fresh Bomb Attacks: We ‘re at war with Boko Haram – Army Chief
Following several bomb blasts that killed scores of people and marred the Easter celebrations in some parts of the North, Chief of Army Staff, Lieutenant General Azubuike Ihejirika, yesterday, told soldiers to consider themselves at war with the Boko Haram Islamic sect.
More deaths on Black Easter: 6 die in fresh attack; bank, hotel torched
Six persons including a Police Inspector and a former council chairman were killed yesterday in a clash between gunmen and members of the Joint Task Force, JTF, in Dikwa council area of Borno State. This came as commercial motorcycle riders claimed to have lost over 100 of their members in Sunday’s bomb blast in Kaduna as more of the bomb victims recounted their experiences.
EASTER TRAGEDIES: 58 die in bomb blast, church collapse
The ceaseless bloodletting that has been the lot of some Northern parts of the country coloured the Easter celebrations, yesterday, throwing several families in Kaduna and Makurdi into mourning. 58 persons died when a suicide bomber killed 36 persons in Kaduna even as 22 others lost their lives in Makurdi as a church building collapsed on worshippers during Easter vigil mass.
IGP orders red alert, deploys 1,000 Policemen to Suleja
Security agencies in Northern Nigeria have stepped up security following alerts by the United States and United Kingdom embassies that the country may witness terrorist attacks this Easter.
Planned Easter Attack : 60 explosives discovered in Gombe
What could have led to one of the bloodiest Easter celebrations in recent times in Gombe State was averted, yesterday, as operatives of the State Security Service(SSS) discovered 60 Improvised Explosive Devices planted in different locations at the British Cotton Ginnery Area (BCGA) of the metropolis.
AIDING AND ABETTING: Anti-kidnap task force boss, others arrested
THE Officer-in-Charge, OC, Anti-Kidnapping Task Force in Delta State, a Chief Superintendent of Police, CSP, (names withheld) and six members of the squad, have been disarmed, arrested and flown to Abuja on the orders of the Acting Inspector General of Police, Mohammed Abubakar, for allegedly aiding and abetting kidnappers in the state.
Obasanjo resigns as PDP BoT chairman
FORMER President Olusegun Obasanjo yesterday resigned his position as chairman of the Board of Trustees, BoT, of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, saying the move would enable him fulfill his duties as a statesman locally and internationally.
LUXURY BUS ATTACK: How I escaped rape by robbers
Emotion ran high yesterday at the Ajao Estate Lagos, abode of one of the female victims of last Saturday’s robbery attack on a Luxury bus belonging to Ekene Dilli Chukwu Nigeria Limited and reported rape, along Ijebu/Ode/Ore expressway, Ogun state, following the 16-year-old’s account of how she escaped from being gang- raped.
Robbers attack luxury bus, rape students
A luxuRY bus belonging to Ekenedilichukwu transport company with 42 female students of a secondary school (name withheld) on board was weekend attacked by a 12-man robbery gang at Oke-Odo, along Ore-Shagamu Expressway, Ogun State. Some of the female students were reportedly raped by the hoodlums.
