General Manager, Public Relations, NCAA, Sam Adurogboye, who made the disclosure Sunday in Lagos, said that those sanctioned included both scheduled and non-scheduled operators. He, however, did not name the operators.

Adurogboye said three of the affected operators were to pay a fine ranging from N1.5 million to N2 million, while the fourth operator had its Air Operator Certificate (AOC) suspended for 180 days.

The Joint Tax Board (JTB), says Nigeria’s database of taxpayers has expanded from 20 million to 35 million.

The Executive Secretary of the Board, Oseni Elamah disclosed this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), Sunday in Abuja.

Elamah explained that this was achieved as a result of the ongoing database consolidation of JTB, an initiative being executed in collaboration with the Nigeria Inter Bank Settlement System (NIBSS).

President Muhammadu Buhari, while paying a condolence visit to the Shagari family said, a suitable memorial will be instituted to immortalise the country’s first Executive President, Shehu Shagari, who passed away Friday, December 28, 2018, aged 93.

In a letter to the Sokoto governor, Aminu Tambuwal, read by the governor at the event, the president stated:

“I received the very sad news of the passing away of Alhaji Shehu Usman Aliyu Shagari, former President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria…The Federal Government will in due course institute a suitable memorial to the late former President.”

The Presidential Candidate of the Allied Congress Party of Nigeria (ACPN), Oby Ezekwesili has promised that if elected, the ACPN would ensure that 50 percent of appointments into the cabinet will be made up of women and young people.

Ezekwesili made the promise in an interview with newsmen shortly after canvassing for votes from market women at Afor-Ukpor market, Ukpor in Nnewi South Local Government Area, Anambra on Sunday.

The Nigerian Air Force (NAF) said the Air Task Force (ATF) of Operation DIRAN MIKIYA successfully neutralised an armed bandits hideout at a compound West of Tsamari in Birnin Magaji Local Government Area, Zamfara.

Air Commodore Ibikunle Daramola, NAF Director of Public Relations and Information, disclosed this in a statement Sunday in Abuja.

He explained that the attack was conducted at dawn on December 28, following intelligence reports indicating that the compound was being used by the armed bandits as a camp from where they launch attacks on innocent civilians.