The Apapa Port Command of Nigeria Customs Service has achieved a revenue collection of N2.01tr as at November 19, 2024 Customs Area Controller(CAC) of the command, Comptroller Babatunde Olomu, fsi who disclosed this while addressing officers and men on a parade on Wednesday November 20, 2024 said the command aims at achieving its N2.2tr target…
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) on Tuesday advised the Nigerian public to be wary of SWIFT MT103, SWIFT and Ack copy, etc, requests in form of messages believed to have originated from foreign bodies to beneficiaries in Nigeria through their Nigerian banks. The CBN described such messages as fake. CBN said in recent time…
No fewer than 25 persons have been confirmed dead as a result of a Gastroenteritis outbreak, otherwise known as Cholera, in three Local Government Areas of the state out of a total of 1,160 cases recorded in the state. The state Commissioner of Health, Asabe Balarabe, disclosed this on Monday while speaking to newsmen. The…
In a statement Monday night, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) alerted the public to the activities of fraudsters purporting to be in receipt of award letters of contracts related to construction works and special financial interventions on behalf of the Bank. The apex bank said it wish to clarify that this is false. In…
A man in Tanzania’s biggest city, Dar es Salaam, has told the BBC he is waiting to hear news of his mother, who remains trapped two days after a building collapsed. Rescuers have so far pulled 86 people from the rubble alive but 16 are known to have died, Prime Minister Kassim Majaliwa said. Emmanuel…
In a move to strengthen bilateral relations, the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), on 16 November 2023, signed a Customs Mutual Administrative Agreement (CMAA) with its Indian counterpart. The Comptroller-General of Customs, Adewale Adeniyi, represented the NCS during the signing ceremony, held at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Abuja. This agreement formed part of the…
Nigerian President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday discussed enhancing cooperation in counter-terrorism, maritime security, and intelligence sharing. Both leaders emphasized joint actions to secure maritime trade routes, combat piracy in Gulf of Guinea, Indian Ocean Amid rising threats in the Gulf of Guinea and the Indian Ocean, they stressed…
Troops of the 6 Division, Nigerian Army in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital, have arrested 28 suspected oil thieves and destroyed 46 illegal refineries in the Niger Delta region. According to the Army in a statement, the arrest was recorded during an operation, which ran between November 11 and 17, 2024, in conjunction with…
Ondo State Governor, Mr Lucky Ayedatiwa, has been declared the winner of Saturday’s governorship election in the state. He was returned elected by the Independent National Electoral Commission after winning the governorship poll in all 18 Local Government Areas of the state. The State Returning Officer, Prof Olayemi Akinwumi, who presented the final results of…
President Bola Tinubu has welcomed the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi for a State Visit at the Presidential Villa in Abuja on Sunday. Prime Minister Modi arrived Nigeria on Saturday, according to a statement by the Special Adviser to the President, Information & Strategy, Bayo Onanuga. The statement read, “His visit to Nigeria will be…
