No fewer than 17 shops were razed after a petroleum tanker loaded with 33,000 litres of fuel, yesterday crashed into Nkwo Ogidi Market in Idemili North Local Government Area and burst into flames.

The inferno destroyed goods worth millions of naira.

An eyewitness, Chukwudi Arinze told newsmen that the vehicle, at about 11:00am was climbing the steeply section of the Chinua Achebe Bye Pass, from the expressway through the International Building Materials Market, but couldn’t get to Ugwunwasike Roundabout before the vehicle started rolling backwards.

The documents received by the Administrative Panel of Inquiry (API) have reinforced the claim that the suspended Director-General, Securities and Exchange Committee (SEC), Mounir Gwarzo, was a director in two private companies.

The 18 page documents obtained by our correspondent showed that Gwarzo was indeed a director and shareholder at Medusa Investments Limited and Outbound Investment Limited.

According to the panel chaired by the Permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry of Finance, Mr Mahmoud Isa-Dutse, the documents formed the bases of their conclusion that Gwarzo should be sacked.

The United Nations Refugees Agency has criticised Nigeria for breaching international treaties after forcefully deporting a Cameroonian Anglophone separatist and his supporters.

UNHCR said that most of those handed over to Yaoundé authorities had applied for asylum in Nigeria.

Julius Ayuk Tabe and 46 others were extradited at Cameroon’s request on January 26.

Cameroon's minister of communications says 47 suspected separatists and leaders of a group that declared the independence of English-speaking regions have been extradited from Nigeria.

Issa Tchiroma Bakary said those extradited arrived in Cameroon on Monday. He said among them were Julius Ayuk Tabe, who in October proclaimed himself the president of Ambazonia. Tabe and nine others were arrested in Abuja, Nigeria, in January.

The Kaduna state Police command has declared a massive clampdown on all users of unapproved tinted glass vehicles cars on the roads.

The state commissioner of Police, Austin Iwar, who gave the hint on Wednesday when he paraded 38 armed robberies and kidnap suspects, said the move has become important following series of security breaches which included kidnapping and armed robbery in some parts of the state.

According to the Police Commissioner, the suspects who were part of the gangs that have been terrorising motorists along Kaduna-Abuja highway and Zaria were arrested after a fierce gun battle with operatives of the Special Anti-Robbery Safer Highway Squad.

Coalition of Civil Society Organizations for Justice and Equity (Coalition-JE), has written a petitioned to the House of Representatives against the IG of Police, Ibrahim Idris.

The group petitioned the House over what it described as “total disregard of court judgments” by the Inspector-General of Police.

Hon. Rita Orji, member representing Ajeromi/Ifelodun federal constituency of Lagos State, read the petition signed by Comrade Olayemi Success on behalf of the coalition.

The petitioners said that the IGP has fragrantly disregarded various court judgments against him and the Police and in favour of the of the Trustees of Peace Corps of Nigeria (PCN) and its National Commandant, Amb. Dickson Akoh.