Fuel scarcity No end in sight as marketers deny receiving N156bn from FG

Oil marketers in Nigeria have denied receiving a subsidy payment of N156 billion from the Federal Government in order to end the current fuel scarcity plaguing the country.

The FG stated on Thursday, April 30, 2015, that the sum had been paid to the marketers to ensure adequate fuel supply in the country.

Foreign Affairs Ministry Meets Indonesian Ambassador

The Under-secretary Economy and Consular Affairs in the Foreign Ministry, Ambassador Ibukun Onemola, at the meeting conveyed the request of the Nigerian government for a prisoner exchange program with Indonesia.

Despite Death Sentence, 19 Nigerians Attempt Shipping Drugs To Asia – NDLEA

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency has said it saved
20 people from the death penalty in Asia by preventing them from smuggling
drugs out of Nigeria.

In a statement Thursday, the agency said since January 2014,
19 Nigerians and a Ghanaian have been arrested in Nigerian airports attempting
to smuggle 106,914 kilogrammes of narcotics.

NAFDAC raids Aba market, arrests two, seals two shops over fake product

By Eric Ugbor

ABA—IN  its continued efforts to rid the nation’s markets of fake and unwholesome products, officials of National Agency for Food, Drug Administration and Control, NAFDAC,  Tuesday, raided the Eziukwu Market in Aba, Abia State.

Lagos generates N2.433trn in eight years, spends N2.7trn

Lagos—The administration of Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State generated total revenue of N2.433 trillion through Federal allocation, Internally Generated Revenue, IGR and others in the last eight years.

Blame African leaders for xenophobia in South Africa

Xenophobia or Afrophobia in South Africa, what a shame! This is an evidence of a failed Continent. African Leaders have failed their people. Why would Africans leave their Country of origin for uncertainty in another Country either in Africa or elsewhere? African immigrants are perishing in the Mediterranean Sea in an attempt to escape from Africa; now they are dying in the hands of their fellow Africans in South Africa.