THE Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has confirmed the suspension of the 4% Free-on-Board (FOB) charge on imported goods following a directive from the Federal Ministry of Finance. In a statement issued on Tuesday, September 16, 2025, by the Service’s National Public Relations Officer, Abdullahi Maiwada, the NCS said it had commenced consultations with its supervisory […]
BY STEPHEN CHUKS THE National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), Port Harcourt Operations Office, has trained members of the NYSC Emergency Management Vanguards (EMVs) in Obio/Akpor Local Government Area, Rivers State, on disaster preparedness and response. The training, held on Tuesday, September 16, 2025, at the council secretariat, was designed to equip corps members under the […]
THE Maiduguri Zonal Directorate of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has arraigned one Mustapha Ibn Mustapha before Justice Aisha Kumaliya of the Borno State High Court over alleged N5.5 million land fraud. He was docked on Tuesday, September 16, 2025, on a three-count charge bordering on obtaining money by false pretence and criminal […]
By MELVIN KOFFA NIGERIA’S vast natural gas reserves will play a central role in powering the country’s ambitious 4,000km high-speed rail project, capable of reaching speeds up to 350 km/h, the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources (Gas), Dr. Ekperikpe Ekpo, has said. Speaking at the International Railway Conference 2025 in Abuja, Ekpo described the […]
By TINA TOLUTOPE THE Federal Government says over 126 million Nigerians have now secured their National Identification Number (NIN), with the national identity database expanded to accommodate 250 million records. President Bola Tinubu, represented by Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Senator George Akume, announced this on Tuesday at the 2025 National Day of […]
By PAULINA NZERUBE THE National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) has rescued eight children, suspected to have been stolen from Kano State between 2017 and 2022, from an orphanage in Asaba, Delta State. The operation, carried out in collaboration with the Department of State Services (DSS), the Nigeria Police Force, the […]
By Pearl Osibu CONVERSATIONS about racism in America often stumble on a familiar refrain: “He was racist, but…” That qualifier erases the depth of systemic injustice. Racism is not abstract—it fractures families through over-policing, mass incarceration, and the erasure of dignity. Black men are disproportionately jailed, their children growing up fatherless, caught in cycles of […]
By PAULINA NZERUBE AT the Radisson Blu Hotel in Lagos, policymakers, financiers, farmers, and agribusiness leaders gathered for one of Nigeria’s most pressing conversations: Can smallholder farmers truly be financeable? The event—the 2025 Agribusiness Dialogue Session hosted by the BATN Foundation—took aim at the enduring myth that smallholder farming is too risky, too small, or […]
By TINA TOLUTOPE NIGERIA’S debt profile, inflation rate, and economic strategy have once again come under public scrutiny, but the Presidency insists the outlook is far more positive than many believe. Dr. Tope Fasua, Special Assistant to the President on Economy, while appearing on Channels Television’s The Morning Brief, argued that Nigeria is “under-borrowing” relative […]
By FIDELUS ZWANSON THE political atmosphere grew tense on Monday as New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) chieftain, Buba Galadima, issued a stark warning to President Bola Tinubu’s administration over alleged plans to appoint a retired Court of Appeal judge as the next chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). Speaking during an interview on […]