Protesting truck drivers have blocked the Abuja-Lokoja-Okene highways since the early hours of Monday. The drivers are protesting the N10,000 daily tax imposed by the Kogi State revenue Service. The state government, police and the Federal Road Safety Corps were, however, taking measure to ensure free flow of traffic. No official reaction yet from the state government but the state police Commissioner, Badulahi Chafe, is currently in a meeting with the leadership of the truck drivers to end the blockade. One of the motorists trapped in the gridlock, Mr Isaac Ighure, said he had remained on the same spot on…

Police say two girl suicide bombers blew themselves up at a checkpoint outside Nigeria's northeastern city of Maiduguri and wounded three civilians. Police spokesman Victor Isuku says the teenagers detonated their explosives when they were stopped for a search Sunday night about 12 kilometers (eight miles) east of the city center, near Muna bus station. That area has suffered several suicide bombings in recent weeks. Isuku blames Boko Haram, the Islamic extremist group that has used scores of women and girls in suicide bombings. Some observers suspect that the women and girls are among the thousands Boko Haram has kidnapped…

Strong indications have emerged that President Muhammadu Buhari may drop no fewer than 10 cabinet ministers, while some would be asked to swap portfolios at the turn of the new year. The decision to reshuffle the cabinet is coming on the heels of indication that the Presidency has tapped leaders of the Senate to secure prompt and less rancorous screening process. Already, two vacancies are existing in the ministerial portfolio, following the death of Barrister James Ocholi, the late Minister of State for Labour and Employment in March and the exit last week of the Minister of Environment, Amina Mohammed.…

Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) is to spend a total sum of N586 million on refreshment and meals and N750 million for fuelling of generators in the 2016 fiscal year. These details were gleaned from FIRS’ N143.722 billion budget approved by the House of Representatives last week. Among the miscellaneous expenses proposed by the revenue agency, hiring of hall, accommodation and events is to gulp N350 million, honorarium and sitting allowance payments, N150 million; publicity, adverts and taxpayers’ education, N2 billion; medical expenditure, N700 million; postage and courier services, N244 million; welfare packages, N681 million; corporate outfit grant, N2.5 billion;…