NIGERIA'S senate has amended the country's Firearms Act 2004 increasing the dine for being in possession of an unregistered weapon to N1m ($2,430) from N1,000 as part of new measures to arrest the growing spate of violence and lawlessness across the nation.

SECESSIONIST group the Indigenous People of Biafra (Ipob) has confirmed that its leader Nnamdi Kanu was arrested during a recent visit to Kenya and was then and handed over to the Nigerian authorities who then flew him into the country.

INDEPENDENT National Electoral Commission (Inec) officer of Ibrahim Umar has been sentenced to seven years in prison by the Nigerian Court of Appeal sitting in Yola after being found guilty of receiving a bribe from ex-petroleum minister Diezani Alison-Madueke.

NIGERIA Diaspora Commission (Nidcom) chairperson Hon Abike Dabiri-Erewa has asked the UK government to thoroughly investigate the recent shooting of Nigerian footballer Kelvin Igweani by the British police in Milton Keynes.

Ayo Akinfe

[1] I would recreate the economic reconstruction agency Projects Development Institute (Proda) founded by Ukpabi Asika in 1971 and ask Nnamdi Kanu to head it

[2] Ipob will change its name to Industrial and Productive Organisation of Brothers

[3] I would them give Nnamdi Kanu the task of creating 5m automobile related jobs at Nnewi

[4] He would also be tasked with creating 3m textile, clothing and fashion related jibs in Aba

NIGERIA lost a total of about $30bn annually between 2005 and 2019 to revenue leakages according to a recent report by the Joint House of Representatives Committee on Finance Banking and Currency.

SENATE president Senator Ahmad Lawan has revealed that Nigeria has no option than to keep borrowing money to fund infrastructural projects because the country is poor and does not generate enough wealth internally.

AFRICA'S richest man Alhaji Aliko Dangote has expressed concern about plans by the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) to purchase a 20% stake in his newly-opened Lekki refinery.

NIGERIAN local government councillors of Igbo extraction in the UK have held a meeting where they drew up demands for the British government in response to the growing violence in their geo-political zone in a bid to pressurise Abuja to address the crisis.

BRITAIN'S high commission to Nigeria has denied claims that Indigenous People of Biafra (Ipob) leader Nnamdi Kanu was arrested in their country following his recent deportation to  face treason charges.