The Port Terminal Multiservices Limited (PTML) Command of Nigeria Customs Service, between January and September 2024, collected a total of N239,233,530,265.48. The Customs Area Command Controller, Tenny Mankini Daniyan who disclosed this, also noted that the figure was N53,448,500,240 higher than the N185,785,030,025.47 collected for January to September 2023, asContinue Reading
BY GODWIN OBI The Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) has confirmed the arrest of controversial crossdresser Idris Okuneye also known as Bobrisky at the Seme Border. The Service in a statement on Monday night said the social media sensation was arrested while trying to flee Nigeria. A spokesman for the Service,Continue Reading
BY GODWIN OBI The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has recovered over N200bn and made about 3,000 convictions in one year under the leadership of Ola Olukoyede. President Bola Tinubu appointed Olukoyede as the chairman of the anti-graft agency in October 2023. Since then, the spokesman of the EFCCContinue Reading
Former President of Nigeria, Olusegun Obasanjo, says the growing number of out-of-school children in the country poses a great security risk for the nation in the future. Advertisement He said that the over 20 million out of school children in Nigeria are only being prepared for recruitment into Boko HaramContinue Reading
BY GODWIN OBI Nibo community in the Awka South Local Government Area of Anambra State boiled on Sunday as an unknown number of persons were shot and feared killed by gunmen at Oye Nwochichi market near the Community Old Maternity According to eyewitnesses, the hoodlums came in a brown-coloured LexusContinue Reading
BY GODWIN OBI Nyesom Wike on Saturday hit back at former vice president Atiku Abubakar, labelling the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential flagbearer in the 2023 election as a serial loser. Atiku had taken a swipe at Wike – the Minister of the FCT and a former governor of RiversContinue Reading
BY GODWIN OBI The Defence Headquarters has said no fewer than 96 terrorists have been killed by troops during operations in the Northern parts of the country. Also, a total of 227 suspects, including a terrorist commander identified as Usman Maisaje, were arrested in the operations. In a statement onContinue Reading
BY GODWIN OBI Vice President Kashim Shettima has led other Nigerian officials to sign a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between Nigeria and telecom giant, Ericsson, on a 5G Innovation Lab, the Presidency has disclosed. The deal is aimed at placing Nigeria among the world’s top users of the 5G networkContinue Reading
BY GODWIN OBI Vandals have destroyed two towers along the crucial 330kV Shiroro–Kaduna transmission lines 1 and 2, throwing parts of Kano and Kaduna into darkness. The Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) said Friday that the towers, T133 and T136, suffered extensive damage, resulting in a disruption of electricity supplyContinue Reading
The President of the African Development Bank (AfDB) Akinwunmi Adesina has raised concern over the rising poverty levels in Nigeria. Adesina spoke in Abuja during the 90th birthday lecture of a former head of state Yakubu Gowon. He said addressing the poverty level is key to Nigeria becoming a globalContinue Reading