The Nigerian Senate Committee on Petroleum Resources (Downstream) has summoned the Minister of State for Petroleum, Ibe Kachikwu, and Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, Maikanti Baru, over the ongoing fuel crisis. The Chairman of the Committee, Kabiru Marafa, on Thursday announced that the two and other stakeholders in the petroleum sector have been invited to a crucial meeting on January 4, 2018.

Benue State governor, Samuel Ortom has ordered the confiscation of over 50 cows and arrest of three herdsmen.

The suspects were arrested for violating the law banning open grazing in the state and for obstructing the governors’ convey while returning to Makurdi from Tarka local council.

The United States has formally agreed to sell 12 Super Tucano A-29 planes and weapons to Nigeria, the West African country’s air force said, confirming the resurrection of a deal frozen by the Obama administration over rights concerns, Reuters reports. Former U.S. President Barack Obama delayed the sale in one of his last decisions in office after the Nigerian Air Force bombed a refugee camp in January.

President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday met the suspended House of Representatives member, Hon. Abdulmumin Jibril behind close door at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. Hon. Jibril who represented Kiri/Bebeji Federal Constituency of Kano state before his suspension also served as the Chairman House Committee on Appropriation.

AS 2019 general elections draw closer, the National Broadcasting Commission, NBC, has warned broadcasting stations in the country against airing or broadcasting hate speeches, warning that stiff penalties await any radio or television station that indulges in such act.

NBC Managing Director, Mallam Modibbo Ishaq Kawu, said this, Wednesday, in Ilorin while featuring on “Media Parliament” organised by the Kwara State Council of the Nigeria Union of journalists, NUJ with the theme “Digitisation of Broadcast: The Place of Nigeria.”

Kawu said that the agency will not hesitate to clamp down on any broadcasting station that violates the ethics of broadcasting.

The NBC boss condemned the rampant cases of hate speeches and campaigns by some media organisations, adding that, “NBC is committed to engendering national peace and unity through broadcasting.”

President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday felicitated with Dr. Christopher Kolade, a veteran broadcaster who clocks 85 on December 28, 2017.  The President in a statement signed by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Femi Adeshina described Kolade as a major stakeholder in the development of the country.