Tomato farmers in Plateau State have been counting losses as an unknown disease is destroying most of their crops. The situation, they said, was affecting their expected yields. Some of the farmers said they had applied all the insecticides/pesticides they knew but to no avail. Others said they had sought the assistance of experts to unravel the problem and find solution, but their efforts did not yield any meaningful result. One of the farmers narrated that as the tomatoes begin to germinate and bear fruits, some aspects of the leaves will begin to dry up, the tomatoes itself will begin…

Federal government has again extended the ongoing national identification number (NIN) and subscriber identity module (SIM) integration exercise till December 31, 2021. The deadline was shifted from the previous date of October 31. Isa Pantami, minister of communications and digital economy, conveyed the approval of the federal government to extend the deadline in a statement issued on Saturday. The statement was jointly signed by Ikechukwu Adinde, director of public affairs at the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), and Kayode Adegoke, head of corporate communications at the National Identity Management Commission (NIMC). “Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Isa Pantami, has conveyed…

Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, has said the court processes leading to the security operatives’ invasion of the Abuja residence of a Justice of the Supreme Court, Mary Odili, on Friday, has criminal overtones. Malami said this in a statement issued by his spokesperson, Umar Gwandu, on Saturday to deny his involvement in the raid. Gwandu, had earlier denied the minister’s involvement in the raid in an interview with PREMIUM TIMES, citing irregularities in the documents filed before a magistrate’s court in Abuja to obtain a search warrant which the invading security operatives tried to…

Security operatives, on Friday, conducted a search on the home of Mary Odili, a justice of the supreme court, in Abuja. The supreme court justice is the wife of Peter Odili, a former governor of Rivers state, who is currently on the watchlist of Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). The security operatives, who were made up of soldiers and officers of the Nigeria Police Force (NPF), identified themselves as members of a joint task force. The security operatives, who came with a search warrant, said they received information on “illegal activities” going on in the house. Our correspondent visited…