Nigerian officials say at least eight people have been killed after five suicide bombers attacked the northeastern city of Maiduguri. National Emergency Management Agency says the Wednesday morning blasts were detonated at various points along the Maiduguri-Gamboru highway. They included a camp for displaced people where two civilians were killed. The emergency management agency says all five of the bombers were killed. Another 20 people were injured. Maiduguri is the birthplace of the Boko Haram extremist group and the base for Nigerian military efforts to counter it. The city is the frequent target of suicide bombers. Boko Haram recently has…

Activities have been grounded at the University of Ibadan due to the strike embarked on by the three non-academic staff unions of the institution. They are Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU), Non-Academic Staff Union (NASU) and National Association of Academic Technicians (NAAT). The unions began indefinite strike on March 10 to protest against shortfalls in payment of salaries and illegal deduction in pension since December 2016. The three gates leading into the university were locked. Some of the students who reside on the campus told NAN that staying was becoming unbearable due to their inability to access water…

Comptroller-General of Customs, retired Col. Hameed Ali, on Tuesday announced a code number for efficient and effective vehicle duty clearance verification. Ali disclosed this at a media stakeholders meeting in Abuja. He said that the essence of the meeting was to have a roundtable with stakeholders to come up with solution to avoid causing hardship to Nigerians in regards to duty payment on old vehicles and verification. He said that the organisation had taken further step to ensure that Nigerians, who wanted to verify the authenticity of their customs duty clearance, could do so at the comfort of their homes…

A total of N429.127 billion has been distributed as federal allocation for the month of February 2017 to federal government, state governments and local government councils. A communiqué issued by the Technical sub-Committee of Federation Accounts Allocation Committee (FAAC) at the end of the meeting held on Tuesday in Abuja, indicated that the gross statutory revenue received for the month is N290.163 billion, which is lower than the N324.990 billion received in the previous month. The shared amount comprised the month’s statutory distributable revenue of N258.692 billion, Value Added Tax of N69.207 billion, Exchange gain of N40.329 billion and Excess…