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The prices of tomatoes have gone up by 1,000 per cent in Jos and environs in Plateau, a market survey by NAN has shown. Our correspondents, who visited some of the markets and other selling points on Thursday, found out that the commodity had gone beyond the reach of the average Nigerian. At the Terminus Market in Jos, a small basket of the commodity, which used to be N350, was selling for N3,500. NAN also found that a big basket of the commodity, which sold for N1,000 about two months ago, now costs N10,000. The story was the same at the Tudun Wada Market in Jos North Local Government, where a medium basket of the commodity, which sold for N550 in March, was sold for N5,600. NAN reports that prospective small buyers seeking N150 worth of the commodity, were turned back by the retailers, who said that they did not have any quantity for that little amount. Speaking to NAN, one of the retailers of the commodity, Mrs. Nanret Abimu, said, “Honestly, I do not know one spec...

The Federal Government has unveiled a social investment package designed to impact on the lives of over eight million Nigerians. This was disclosed on Sunday by Dr. Laolu Akande, Senior Special Assistant (Media and Publicity) to the President, during an interactive session with journalists in Abuja. Akande explained that some parts of this package would become operational in the coming weeks.   One of the highlights of the package, said Akande, is the feeding of 5.5 million school children, who are  to be fed for 200 school days in the first phase of homegrown school feeding programme for which N93.1billion was budgeted. Another element of the package is the proposed provision of soft loans to over 1.76 million traders, market women, men,  artisans and those involved in agriculture.  The loans, he explained, will not require to be conventionally  collateralized.  Some traders, he said, may get about N60,000. A total sum of N140.3billion ...

FROM LEFT: Gov. Abdulaziz Yari of Zamfara State; Minister of Budget and National Planning, Sen. Udoma Udo Udoma; Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo and President Muhammadu Buhari, at the National Economic Council Retreat in Abuja   At a time Nigeria is facing severe economic crunch, a comprehensive oil report presented to the National Economic Council (NEC) has been found to be silent on a whopping N323.58 billion earned as crude oil revenue under the President Goodluck Jonathan government. The report, submitted to NEC by Mohammed Dikwa, the then Director of Funds, Office of the Accountant General of the Federation (OAGF), revealed a startling discrepancy of about ₦323.58 billion, which his analysis failed to explain. President Muhamadu Buhari later appointed Mr. Dikwa Acting Accountant-General of the Federation before Ahmed Idris emerged as the Accountant General. The oil report, exclusively obtained by PREMIUM TIM...

One year old David Ekpedeme Robinson who was kidnapped by his nanny in Calabar, Cross Rivers state two days ago has been found. He was found today with his nanny at Trailerpark in Onne, Rivers state, where she was trying to sell him. He is back to his parents.Thank God!

Surgeons in Massachusetts General Hospital have performed the first U.S. penis transplant on 64 year old Thomas Manning who had his penis amputated after he was diagnosed with penile cancer in 2012. The procedure performed on May 8 and May 9, described by the doctors as a "surgical milestone," is called a gentitourinary vascularized composite allograft, or GUVCA and involves 'surgically grafting the complex microscopic vascular and neural structures of a donor organ onto the comparable structures of the recipient. According to the hospital surgeons connected the intricate vascular and nerve structures of a donor penis with those of the 64-year-old transplant recipient. The surgeons said their goals were to reconstruct the genitalia giving it a natural appearance and to re-establish urinary and possibly sexual function. Doctors said there are no signs of bleeding, rejection or infection and are cautiously optimistic that he will regain functio...