INTERNATIONAL oil companies operating in Nigeria owe the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) more than $4bn in unpaid royalties according to the minister of Niger Delta Affairs senator Godswill Akpabio.

DEPUTY police commissioner Abba Kyari is facing the prospect of extradition to the US to face corruption charges after he lost a high court case today in which his lawyers sought to restrain the security agencies from arresting and extraditing him.

SEVERAL Indigenous People of Biafra (Ipob) members are up in arms with the leadership of the organisation over their recent decision to suspend the weekly sit-at-home protests called to express their anger at the abduction and trial of their founder Nnamdi Kanu.

FORMER Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) governor Professor Charles Soludo has suffered a major setback in his quest to become the next Anambra State governor after an Owerri high court ruled that his opponent Chukwuma Umeoji was the authentic candidate of his party.

ENGLISH Premier League giants Everton are said to be planning to sell Super Eagles playmaker before the closure of the August transfer window to generate funds to purchase other players as part of a team strengthening programme.

Ayo Akinfe

[1] Do you know that the US invested $9.4m in Afghanistan to establish a Kabul carpet export center? With the Taliban seizing power, that project will obviously end. President Buhari should look to cash in on it

[2] For starters, President Buhari should offer political asylum to all those Afghan technocrats trained in modern carper-making techniques

LOCAL residents in Bassa Local Government Area of Plateau State are asking security forces how armed hoodlums thought to be Fulani cattle herdsmen managed to attack the village of Tafi-Gana despite a curfew being in place.

MEMBERS of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Nasarawa State have vowed to resist any attempt by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to arrest their former governor Senator Umaru Al-Makura saying the petition against him was baseless.

CENTRAL Bank of Nigeria (CBN) officials have invited the nation's security forces to help it enforce the ban on the spraying of naira which it has declared as illegal saying it an unpatriotic act of showing disrespect for country's legal tender.

NIGERIA'S high commission to the UK is to re-open on Monday August 23 following a 10-day shutdown after two if its staff tested positive for coronavirus during a mass testing of all employees who work in the building last week.