The Nigeria-Singapore Business Investment Forum is expected to hold bilateral talks on Tuesday in Singapore on the prospects of land and sea transportation. The talks would also over other sectors of the Nigerian economy. The Minister of Transport, Alhaji Yusuf Suleiman, and the Managing Director of Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA), Malam Abdulsalam Mohammed, are expected […]

Contrary to reports, the controversial vessel MV VeraD, is still being detained at the Tin-Can Port, Apapa, Lagos.
The vessel is suspected to be carrying three containers laden with toxic materials. It was seized 15 days ago.

SOKOTO-The Sokoto State Area Command of the Nigeria Customs Service says it has adopted a community approach in the combat of smugglers in the area.

CUSTOMS Area Controller (CAC), Kirikiri Lighter Terminal, Comptroller Akinloye Banji has called on stakeholders in the industry, especially importers and clearing agents, to carry out enlightenment programme on clearing procedures.

CUSTOMS Area Controller (CAC) of Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Comptroller Usman Kankara Bello, has disclosed that his command recently foiled an attempt to kidnap two persons in Abuja, leading to the arrest of the suspected kidnappers in a bush along Abuja-Keffi Road.

The Area Controller (CAC), Ondo/Ekiti Command of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Alhaji Yusuf Umar has stated that the command has raked in N16 million from excise duties, parcel postal service and duties on Tokunbo cars in the last eight months

This Command was given a revenue target of N6 billion for the year and am glad to inform you that as at 30th September 2010, the Command had collected a cumulative sum of N4,427,112,437.81 billion of the target.

SEME Customs Command has disclosed that its anti smuggling and enforcement activities is yielding positive results, saying that it is in line with Comptroller General of Customs zero tolerance on corruption.

WITH the anxiety over alleged arms proliferation into the country via the Seme borders ahead of the 2011 elections, the Nigerian customs and the Benin Republic gendarme has commenced joint border patrols of all illegal routes in and out of the country.

MORE facts emerged yesterday on the remarriage of the General Superintendent of the Deeper Christian Life Ministry, Pastor William Folorunsho Kumuyi, 18 months after the demise of his first wife, Sister Biodun.

Forty-two year old Modu Wami-Goni is visually impaired but he has not allowed his blindness to impair his determination to receive western education. Against all odds, he travelled to United Kingdom to train as a special needs teacher and educational administrator.

Princess Sarah Adebisi Sosan, Deputy Governor of Lagos State and also Commissioner for Education, while opening a new multi-million naira Edward Blyden Memorial School in Lagos Island at the weekend built by Etisalat Nigeria Plc, an emerging communication company, called on the private sector to invest in education and complement the efforts of government.

CONTINUING intrigues among the four allied Northern presidential candidates may have prompted the Mallam Adamu Ciroma led 17 Wise Men committee to defer its choice candidate to confront President Goodluck Jonathan for the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, presidential ticket.

Former Governor of Enugu State, Senator Chimaroke Nnamani, was, yesterday, re-arraigned before a Federal High Court sitting in Lagos, by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on a 124-count charge of alleged money laundering.

THE crisis engulfing the National Chairman of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Dr. Okwesilieze Nwodo, may have pitched President Goodluck Jonathan in a quandary between heeding his rule of law mantra and protecting the interests of some governors.