NIGERIA'S three major sugar companies are involved in a major trade spat with Dangote Group and Flour Mills Nigeria asking the federal government to check the activities of the BUA Group as it was undermining the national sugar master plan (NSMP).

NIGERIA has enjoyed a slight growth in her foreign reserves which rise to $34.85bn as of April 1 from the $34.41bn which they were on March 11 as a result of a combination of the Central Bank of Nigeria's (CBN) naira-for-dollar policy and rising oil prices.

START-UP international airline Green Africa Airways is set to commence flight operations as from December next year with a fleet of ATR 72-600 planes that it has just recently purchased in a move expected to radically shake up the aviation industry.

FORMER presidential candidate Chief Charles Udeogaranya has expressed confidence that the ongoing agitation for the balkanisation of Nigeria will abate come 2023 if the country elects a president of Igbo extraction.

NIGERIAN National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) officials plan to resume active oil exploration in the Sokoto Basin as part of a continued programme to perpetuate the country's dependence on crude oil as its main foreign exchange earner.

Ayo Akinfe 

(1) As from October 1 2021, every state government and the FCT authority is compelled to construct a minimum of 10,000 housing units a year 

(2) Every one of our 774 local government areas is compelled to construct at least 1,000 housing units a year 

(3) All government ministries, agencies, departments and parastatals are compelled to offer mortgages to any employee who has spent up to three years in service 

THERE are now has as many as 6m illegal weapons in Nigeria spurring the incessant cycle of violence sweeping across the country according to former military head of state General Abdusalami Abubakar.

NIGERIA enjoyed a little success in attempts to diversify her economy last year after it emerged that the country generated a total of $150m from the export of coconut oil and its derivatives during the course of 2020.

INDIA has donated 100,000 does of its Covishield coronavirus vaccine to Nigeria through the National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA) as part of a programme to enable the country carry through its vaccination programme.

LONDON'S Horniman Museum is considering returning several Nigerian artefacts including bronze statues obtained using colonial violence during the 1897 Massacre of Benin in response to the growing clamour for correcting British wrongs against its former colonies.