Customs Area Controller of the Federal Operations Unit, FOU Zone “A”, Garba Uba Mohammed, spoke with Vanguard Maritime Report’s Godfrey Bivbere & Ebuka Oko, on effect of smuggling, why border communities support the act, the contribution of neighbouring countries, Customs efforts and the way forward.

Nigerians opened 11.2 million bank accounts in the first half of 2018 (H1’2018) comprising 8.3 million savings accounts and 1.8 million current accounts.

OKPE—A Delta State High Court sitting in Oreropke has slammed a N3 million judgment against the state’s Commissioner of Police and three others policemen as punitive damage for assaulting and detaining an accountant, Mr. Irhirhi Edesiri, for allegedly videoing them at a checkpoint.

Uyo—CRISIS looms in Akwa Ibom State chapter of All Progressives Congress, APC, following perceived moves by former Senate Minority Leader, Senator Godswill Akpabio, to defect from Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.

KATSINA—Federal Government is to construct about 243-kiliometre rural roads and reconstruct 375-kilometre roads for farmers in seven northern participating states under the International Fund for Agriculture Development, Climate Change Adaption and Agribusiness Support Programme, IFAD-CASP, to ease transportation of their farm produce to potential market places.