MEN of the Lagos State Police Command have smashed a military camp belonging to the outlawed merchant navy in the Ogudu area of the state and arrested 107 trainees being trained to become military personnel.

NIGERIA'S labour minister Dr Chris Ngige has proposed that medical doctors be asked to sign a nine year bond committing them to remaining in the country for nearly a decade after they complete their training as a means of addressing the current brain drain crisis.

GOVERNORS of Nigeria's ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) have begun lobbying President Muhammadu Buhari not to sign the new bill calling for direct primaries as a means of selecting party candidates unto law.

NIGERIA'S senate has approved President Muhammadu Buhari's request for an additional $16bn loan and an extra €1bn worth of borrowing to help the government fund its budgets under the 2018-2020 External Borrowing Plan.

YOUNG Progressive Party (YPP) candidate in the recent Anambra State governorship election Senator Ifeanyi Ubah has conceded defeat and congratulated the declared winner Professor Charles Soludo of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (Apga).

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[1] Nigeria needs French automobile companies Citroen and Renault to come and open manufacturing and assembly plants in Nigeria immediately as Peugeot did. We need them to make Nigeria the centre of electric car manufacturing

[2] Pharmaceutical giant Sanofi should come and open a facility in Nigeria to manufacture a coronavirus vaccine. The French government should offer them a massive tax rebate for doing so

NIGERIAN senators are courting fresh controversy in the petroleum industry after the amendment of a bill to include several non-oil producing states to the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) scaled its second reading today.

WASHINGTON has recognised the victory of former Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) governor Professor Charles Soludo in the recently-concluded Anambra State elections calling his election credible.

NIGERIA'S finance minister Zainab Ahmed has asked for significant financial sector reforms that will enable the growth of Islamic finance in the economy as part of the search for investment capital required to develop infrastructure and boost manufacturing.

INDIGENOUS People of Biafra (Ipob) leader Nnamdi Kanu has had his case postponed to January 19 next year after his lawyers boycotted today's hearing in protest over the fact that one of their foreign colleagues was not allowed into court.