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ACTING inspector-general of police Mohammed Adamu has confessed to senators that he is powerless to end the ongoing breakdown in security across the country because his force is badly under-funded and ill-equipped to combat the menace.

NIGERIAN Football Federation (NFF) president Amaju Pinnick and four other officials have been charged with the misappropriation of $8,400 paid as a subvention by global footballing body Fifa.

NIGERIA'S permanent representative of Nigeria to the United Nations Professor Tijjani Mohammad Bande has been appointed the next president of the United Nations General Assembly when the tenure of the current incumbent expires in September.

PRESIDENCY officials have denied reports that the government has offered the Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria (Macban) N100bn ($276m) to get Fulani herdsmen to end their orgy of violence saying all that is taking place is a dialogue.

By Ayo Akinfe

Nigeria is estimated (we do not even have exact figures) to earn about $37bn a year from the sale of petroleum products. I for one have no doubt in my mind whatsoever that if we turned off the oil taps today, agriculture alone could generate that figure.

PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari has been asked by the Nigeria Union of Pensioners (NUP) to call labour minister Dr Chris Ngige to order after he is alleged to have sought to divide the body using nepotistic and ethnic divisive tactics.

ABOUT 2,000 Ebonyians have been driven out of neighbouring Cross River State after a community spat blew up into a full blown dispute that saw armed youths attack shops and partake in an act of ethnic cleansing.

BRITAIN'S National Health Service (NHS) plans to embark on an ambitious international recruitment drive in a desperate bid to get foreign nurses over the next five years as manpower shortages are straining the system.

OSUN West lawmaker Senator Ademola Adeleke has been granted bail to enable him visit the US for a medical check-up after he appeared before a Federal Capital Territory high court this morning where he is facing certificate forgery charges.

VICE president Professor Yemi Osinbajo was forced to come out of his car and address irate protesters near Abuja this morning after they blocked his motorcade to protest the recent taking over of their land by the Nigerian military.