Trump’s presidency will not disrupt Nigeria, U.S. relations, says Foreign Affairs Ministry

The statistician who doubled Nigeria’s economy overnight under Jonathan

Late afternoon finds the windowless fifth-floor reception of the office of Nigeria’s top statistician in darkness. There has been no light since morning and “there’s no diesel for the generator”, explains a passing civil servant. There are things that Yemi Kale, the statistician general, can control and things he cannot. “After five years, you get used to this,” the 41-year-old economist says of the unreliability of the power supply in the headquarters of the National Bureau of Statistics of Nigeria, reports The Financial Times.

Breaking: Obasanjo ‘remains the grandfather of corruption in Nigeria’, says Reps

ABUJA-BARELY 24hours after former President Olusegun Obasanjo lampooned the President Muhammadu Buhari All Progressives Congress, APC led government,Spokesman of the House of Representatives, Abdulrazaq Namdas on Thursday took a swipe at the former president describing him as the grand father of corruption in Nigeria. He also alleged at a press briefing held at the NASS complex that Obasanjo has the intention of bringing down

Military court jails Nigerian soldier for stealing bullets

A military general court martial in Maiduguri, Borno State, on Tuesday sentenced a soldier to 18 months in prison for unauthorised possession of live ammunitions outside his assigned duty post.

Police dismisses 9 officers for criminal misconduct

The Nigerian Police Force has said that its has dismissed nine officers for criminal missconduct.

The dismissal according to a statement on Tuesday was a ‘major sting operation to checkmate corruption and professional misconduct within and outside the police’

UPP founder Chekwas urges Buhari to free Kanu, dialogue with pro-Biafra groups

Founder, United Progressives Party, UPP, Chief Chekwas Okorie, yesterday, urged President Muhammadu Buhari to release detained Nnamdi Kanu, Director, Radio Biafra, as