FOU, Zone ‘A’ Customs impounds contraband valued at N1.59bn

Comptroller Uba Garba Mohammed led Federal Operations Unit (FOU) Zone A of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) with its headquarters in Ikeja, Lagos has intercepted a total of 64 different vehicles worth over N1.3 billion in Lagos and Ogun States between the 1st and 30th November, 2017. This is coming …

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Buhari will Win 2019 Presidency Convincingly, Says Kalu

Former Governor of Abia State and chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Orji Uzor Kalu, at the weekend in Nsukka, Enugu State declared that President Muhammadu Buhari would not only contest the 2019 election but will also win “convincingly”. Kalu who spoke to journalists after receiving an Honorary Doctorate …

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Delta Assembly Passes N308.9bn 2018 State Budget

The Delta State House Assembly on Thursday, November 30, 2017 passed into law, the 2018 Budget of N308,888,558,898bn for the State, reflecting an increase from the proposed N298.078bn presented by Governor Ifeanyi Okowa to the House on October 29, 2017. The House which was determined to pass the budget into law …

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APC Rejects Results As PDP Clears Akwa Ibom Council Polls

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has rejected the result of the December 2 Local Government election in Akwa Ibom as declared by the State Independent Electoral Commission (AKISIEC). AKISIEC had in a statement on Sunday declared that PDP won all the 31 chairmanship seats and 329 councillorship positions in the …

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Why Nigeria needs community policing — Ex-IGP Arase

A former Inspector General of Police, IGP, Solomon Arase, has said that since Nigeria got her independence, the country is yet to have a proper policy for national internal security in place. He said this policy is meant to identify, reinforce and accept community policing as an internal security model …

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How I became a slave in Libya – Nigerian victim

The Edo State indigene, whose emotion-laden interview with CNN’s Nima Elbagir in a Libyan deportation camp, was viewed by millions worldwide, shared his life-experiences in T.B. Joshua’s church on Sunday. The young barber explained that his father died when he was just 11, adding that he struggled to sponsor himself …

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GOV. Ayade breaks state’s budget record

GOV. BEN Ayade of Cross River has presented a budget of N1.3 trillion for the 2018 fiscal year to the Cross River House of Assembly for deliberation and passage, the News Agency of Nigeria reports. The budget is the largest for a single state in Nigeria’s history. Lagos state held the record with its N812 billion budget for 2017. The state …

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Scarcity Looms as IPMAN Threatens Showdown with NNPC

Independent petroleum marketers in Lagos State have threatened to withdraw their services from December 11 over NNPC’s breach of bulk purchase agreement to sell fuel to them at N133.28k per litre. The Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria (IPMAN), Lagos State chapter, wednesday said it was set for a showdown with …

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FRSC Sacks 25 Staff Over Corruption

In order to key into the Federal Government anti-corruption drive, the Federal Road Safety Corps, FRSC has sacked 25 staff in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja for involving in various corrupt practices. The agency Marshall, Dr. Boboye Oyeyemi stated this in Ibadan on Thursday while fielding questions from newsmen at …

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