BY CHIGOZIE EZE Tragedy has struck in Ogbotobo community in Ekeremor Local Government Area as a 15-year-old boy name withheld killed his uncle while playing with his grandfather’s gun. According to sources, the boy who is fond of playing with his grandfather’s gun, recreating scenes in movies where an actorContinue Reading
BY GODWIN OBI Bandits have reportedly attacked a government primary school at Kuriga community of the Chikun Local Government Area of Kaduna State, abducting scores of pupils. The community is located along the Kaduna Birnin-Gwari Road which has been terrorised by bandits for many years. The police authorities and theContinue Reading
BY GODWIN OBI President Bola Tinubu has suspended the Managing Director/CEO of the Rural Electrification Agency (REA), Ahmad Salihijo Ahmad. Confirming the suspension in a statement on Thursday, presidential spokesman, Ajuri Ngelale, said the President also suspended three executive directors of the agency. “In the light of new findings unearthedContinue Reading
BY GODWIN OBI The Comptroller-General of the Nigeria Customs Service, Bashir Adewale Adeniyi MFR, has reiterated his commitment to improving the welfare of Customs personnel, across the federation, by providing shelters. The Comptroller-General of Customs made this known on Thursday, 7 March 2024, in Kaduna during the flag-off ceremony ofContinue Reading
BY ADA OBI The Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) has remitted the sum of N131.2bn to the federation account as at the end of last year in what appears like keeping with the spirit of the performance bond signed with the governmentIn a report titled “Consolidation of superior performance at theContinue Reading
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