Customs Area Controller, Seme Command, Comptroller Timi Bomodi fielding questions from newsmen after inspection of the seized items. BY GODWIN OBI In the midst of the worsening food crisis currently ravaging the country, the Seme Border Command of the Nigeria Customs Service has seized a truck load of beans containingContinue Reading
BU GODWIN OBI Respected Political Economist and Professor of Strategy and Development at the Commonwealth Institute of Advanced and Professional Studies, Anthony Kila has thrown his weight behind the importation and subsidy of food as a means of dealing with current food crisis Nigeria. Kila made his position known whileContinue Reading
BY GODWIN OBI The United Nations (UN) on Wednesday strongly condemned the abduction of internally displaced persons (IDPs), many of them women, boys and girls, in Borno State. The insurgents struck three Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) camps in Ngala tow, the headquarters of Gamboru Ngala Local Government Area at theContinue Reading
BY GODWIN OBI Serving and former African Presidents, on Wednesday, took turns to commend the outstanding leadership of the President of the African Development Bank (AfDB), Dr Akinwumi Adesina, as he bagged the prestigious 2023 Obafemi Awolowo Prize for Leadership. African leaders including the President of the United Republic ofContinue Reading
*Says Nigerians engaged in illegal export of food items BY GODWIN OBIThe Area Controller, Seme Command of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Comptroller Timi Bomodi, on Tuesday raised alarm on how school children are being used by desperate smugglers to traffic on cannabis sativa at the border areas.Bomodi said theContinue Reading
By Godwin Obi with Agency report Africa’s richest man, Aliko Dangote, is planning to set up an oil trading arm, likely based in London, to help run crude and products supply for his new refinery in Nigeria. According to Reuters, the move would reduce the role of the world’s biggest tradingContinue Reading
BY GODWIN OBI The Seme border command of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), has disclosed that it Intercepted 400 bags of beans worth N61.45 million on the verge of being illegally exported to neighboring Benin Republic. Speaking to a cream of journalists at the Seme-Krake Joint Border Post, the CustomsContinue Reading
BY GODWIN OBI The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has intercepted 21 food trucks heading to neighbouring countries. Announcing the seizure in a statement on its X handle on Tuesday, the anti-graft agency said the items were heading towards N’djamena, Chad Republic, Central African Republic, and Cameroon. The seizureContinue Reading