How we kidnapped Okonjo-Iweala’s mother – Suspects

When in the afternoon of Sunday, December 11, 2013, kidnappers struck in the ancient town of Ogwashi-Uku, the headquarters of Aniocha South Local Government area of Delta State, taking away Prof. Kamnene Okonjo, wife of the monarch of the Kingdom, Obi (Prof.) Chukwuka...

What is SON doing on substandard goods in our markets?

I would be grateful if the Independent Advocate could please prevail once more on the Standard Organizations of Nigeria (SON) on why it has kept mum all these while thereby enabling many sub-standard goods to flock into the country freely without the fear of the...

Towards tackling pipeline vandalism

By Blessing Adewole/Abuja Since the discovery in commercial quantity in 1956, petroleum products have played vital role in Nigeria’s economy, supplying up to 90 per cent of the country’s gross earnings. Incidentally, as one of the leading oil-producing countries in Africa, Nigeria loses billions of...

Sustaining Customs anti-smuggling agenda

 By Andrew Utulu, CORREPONDENT, Lagos Not much had been heard lately on the activities at the Tincan Island Port of the Nigeria Customs Service since Comptroller Tunji Aremu took over as the area controller of the busy port after serving as controller of Ports and Terminal...

SFU: Enhancing war against fraud

By Andrew Utulu, Correspondent, Lagos The Police Special Fraud Unit, located at Sunday Adewusi House, Milverton Street, Ikoyi, Lagos has been known to be full of activities. This has been the case right from the time retired Commissioner of Police, Yinka Balogun was in charge of...

Employment scammers on the prowl

By Wisdom Patrick, Senior Correspondent, Lagos Cashing in on the crippling unemployment in the land, job scammers have been on the prowl, making job offers to desperate applicants at varying sums. Sadly, the jobs hardly exist. In fleecing their victims, employment conmen essentially feed on their...

Day of reckoning for Black Sunday Lagos robbers

It was celebration galore for officers and men of the Lagos State Police Command made a major breakthrough with the arrest of three member s of the armed gang which not only held Lagos metropolis and environs to ransom about three Sundays ago, killing three...

Boki communities: Nigeria’s tourist haven devoured by mudslide

The people of Boki Local Government Area of Cross River State are believed to inhabit a landmass whose topography could aptly be described as the most difficult in country.