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NIGERIA'S Supreme Court has restrained the federal government and its agencies from ceding 17 oil wells to Imo State after the Rivers State government successfully challenged the handing over of the facilities located in Akri and Mgbede communities.

LAGOS State government is seeking private sector support to boost the revenue it generates from the coconut industry to N350bn ($850.8m) annually from the current N76bn raised primarily through the export of primary produce.

NIGERIA'S mining industry has generated N6.9bn ($16.7m) between 2019 and the first half of this year as the government policy of issuing licences to private prospectors is yielding dividend and raising revenue for the treasury.

SUNDAY Igboho and Professor Banji Akintoye have teamed up with 49 other Yoruba self determination groups to file a 27-page petition against President Muhammadu Buhari before the International Criminal Court (ICC).

SCIENCE and technology minister Dr Ogbonnaya Onu has revealed that Nigeria is working hard to produce a locally made coronavirus vaccine to enable its professionals and scientists to be involved in mass production of a drug.

Ayo Akinfe

[1] An end to the incessant insecurity which has made kidnapping the most lucrative industry in Nigeria today. It only thrives because the government looks the other way. With the arrest of Nnamdi Kanu, we have seen how the government can act when it wants to

[2] An immediate end to the fuelling of ethnic divisions and the promotion of nepotism. Nigerians are more divided along ethnic lines today than ever before in our history

NIGERIA suffered a trade deficit of over $35trn ($85bn) when it came to manufactured goods during the four years between 2017 and 2021 as she spent N40.94trn on imports and only generated N4.22tn from exports during the period.

NIGERIA'S minister of state for petroleum resources Chief Timipre Sylva has revealed that government subsidies in the sector have effectively ended with the passing of the Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB) by the National Assembly.

NIGERIA'S attorney-general Abubakar Malami has welcomed the legal monitoring team set up by the Igbo socio-cultural group Ohaneze Ndigbo to monitor the trial of Indigenous People of Biafra (Ipob) leader Nnamdi Kanu.

PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari's controversial spokeswoman Lauretta Onochie has had her bid to be appointed as an electoral commissioner rejected after the senate refused to endorse her for the position.