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NIGERIA is drawing up plans to introduce a law that will make it illegal to export solid minerals without adding value to them as part of an ambitious plan to industrialise her economy.

GOVERNORS of Nigeria's 36 states have dragged President Muhammadu Buhari to the Supreme Court challenging a presidential executive order signed in May which places the burden of funding courts on them.

NIGERIA has secured another major victory in its quest to overturn a $10bn judgement awarded against the government for breach of contract filed against it by British company Process and Industrial Developments (P&ID).

FORMER Osun State governor and All Progressives Congress (APC) chairman Chief Bisi Akande has warned all those advocating for the dismemberment of Nigeria that their proposals are fraught with great dangers as it could lead to 100 years of war.

FORMER Super Eagles defender Efe Ambrose has been appointed as a member of the coaching crew at Scottish Premier League side Livingston being named as the assistant coach of the reverse team yesterday.

(1) The NNPC is to be privatised with the government holding a stake of no more than 25%. Foreign partners will hold about a 50% stake, with the company floated on the Lagos, New York, London, Frankfurt and Tokyo stock exchanges

(2) The NNPC will be recalibrated as a diversified conglomerate with a presence in manufacturing, agriculture, steelmaking, food processing, automobile assembly, power generation, shipbuilding, aircraft manufacturing, rail franchise operations, aviation, etc

MEMBERS of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) National Campaign Council for Ondo State governorship elections have challenged Governor Rotimi Akeredolu to account for the sum of over $10m received from foreign donors as cOVID-19 palliatives.

CIVIL society organisation Save Democracy Coalition (SDC) has called on the US and European Union (EU) authorities to extend their visa travel ban on Nigerian politicians who participate in electoral fraud to  unscrupulous judges who commit judicial tape too.

ADAMAWA North Senatorial District's lawmaker Senator Elisha Abbo has been fined N50m ($131,174) by an Abuja high court for assaulting a female member of staff at a sex toy shop in May last year.

IGBO indigenes living in Kano State will not be allowed to celebrate the New Yam Festival this year after a high court issued an ex parte motion stopping all activities until the hearing of a substantive motion before it.