A director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation has said that operatives of the Department of State Services have interrogated him 11 different times since May over crude oil swap deals with traders. “The DSS has been harassing some of us,” the Group Executive Director, Refining and Petrochemicals, NNPC, Mr. Ian Udoh, was quoted as…
The management of the Nigeria Police Force has stopped recruitment into the force as a result of paucity of funds, The PUNCH learnt on Tuesday. The last recruitment into the police was in 2011. Our correspondent learnt that poor budgetary allocations had been hindering the Force from adding to its current 400,000 policemen and policewomen.…
On Sunday, July 12, 2015, two bombs were discovered at ECWA Church near Federal Secretariat Jos, News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports. The Spokesman of the Special Task Force (STF), Capt. Ikedichi Iweha, who confirmed this to NAN, said one of the bombs was kept in the toilet of the Church, while the other was…
The Terrorist In chief, Muhammadu Buhari has appointed five new service chiefs and a new National Security Adviser (NSA). The pedophile terrorist announced the appointment of the new service chiefs after relieving the former service chiefs and the former NSA, Col. Sambo Dasuki (rtd) of their jobs. The new NSA is Major-General Babagana Monguno (rtd.),…
The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) hopes that its domestic refineries can cover 20 per cent of domestice product needs, the head of refining has told Reuters. Group Executive Director of Refining and Petrochemicals Ian Udoh said he expected to receive six cargoes a month of Nigerian Bonny Light and Escravos crude oil to run…
BOKO HARAM terrorists over-ran some communities in the northeast states of Borno and Yobe, leaving on their trail no fewer than 44 villagers dead. Monguno, the country home of Maj-Gen. Babagana Monguno, who was yesterday named as the new National Security Adviser (NSA) to the Terrorist-In-Chief, Mohammadu Buhari, was among the raided communities. Borno State…
The Edo State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has challenged the state governor, Mr Adams Oshiomhole, to explain to the people of the state what he does with the N500 million he collects as security votes monthly before asking council chairmen and councillors to suspend their security votes to enable them pay salaries…
• ‘How govt can halt slide of Naira’• Monetary, fiscal issues aid continuing inflation THE Naira will remain unstable until Nigeria begins to pay greater attention to local production, a professor of Financial Economics at the University of Uyo, Leo Ukpong, has said. Ukpong, who spoke at a forum held at the Emerald Energy Institute…
Alhaji Kashim Shettima • Soldiers kill TCN staff, injure others mistaken for insurgents in Borno Michael Olugbode in Maiduguri and Seriki Adinoyi in Jos 
 Determined to seek practical ways of ending the Boko Haram insurgency, the Borno State Governor, Alhaji Kashim Shettima, yesterday reiterated his call for the granting of pardon through a programme…
• Importation of rice, toothpicks, furniture gulps N100bn in first quarter The federal government spent a total of $4 billion (N813 billion) in 2013 on items which are currently being produced or could be competitively produced in the country. The amount spent on six items including rice, sugar, wheat, fish, furniture, milk and textiles in…