The Seme Area Command of Nigeria Customs Service has has recorded a revenue collection totalling N1.904 billion as at the close of business on 8th September, 2023. However, a revenue target of N9.6 billion was given to the command for the 2023 fiscal year. This amount collected so far represents 97.2bper cent of the total […]
Niger’s new military rulers on Friday accused France of “further blatant interference” after President Emmanuel Macron reiterated his support for ousted leader Mohamed Bazoum. Macron’s comments, made on Monday, “constitute further blatant interference in Niger’s domestic affairs,” the regime’s spokesman Colonel Amadou Abdramane said in a statement read on nationwide TV. Bazoum, a close ally […]
Ondo State Governor, Rotimi Akeredolu has resumed official duties following his return to the country from his three months medical vacation in Germany. Akeredolu returned to the country on Thursday, September 7, 2023, and he immediately convened a meeting with key stakeholders from Ondo State in his Ibadan, the capital of Oyo State, residencce. Stakeholders […]
The Minister of Interior, Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo, has instructed the contractors working with the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) to ensure that passport application backlogs are cleared “within the next two weeks”. Tunji-Ojo, in a Thursday post on X, formerly Twitter, stated that the directive was one of several “swift measures” aimed at eliminating barriers which applicants […]
African Union (AU) has officially become a permanent member of the G-20 group, a move proposed earlier in June. This was made known at the ongoing summit in New Delhi, India, on Saturday by the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The African Union was made a permanent member of the G20, comprising the world’s richest […]
A magnitude 6.8 earthquake has hit Morocco, killing at least 630 people, injuring them than 320, damaging buildings and sending terrified residents fleeing their homes into the streets for safety. Morocco’s state television reported the doubling of the death toll on Saturday morning from overnight, citing the Ministry of Interior. Of those injured, 51 were […]
At least 30 persons have lost their lives in a landslide reportedly triggered by activities of illegal miners in the Kuje Area Council of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja. Nineteen persons were also abducted in Bwari Area Council of Abuja, on Thursday. These persons were on Thursday, kidnapped in the Bwari Area Council of […]
Nyesom Wike, the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), on Thursday commended the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal for affirming the victory of President Tinubu in the 2023 general elections. Wike gave the commendation while speaking on Channels Television, saying: “Nigerians have spoken, the court has affirmed it.” “I didn’t expect that the election would […]
Gabon’s military government, which seized power in a coup last week, appointed a former opposition leader, Raymond Ndong Sima, as the prime minister of its transitional government. Sima, a 68-year-old economist, was an outspoken critic of President Ali Bongo, who was removed by military officers on August 30. He served as Bongo’s prime minister from […]
Comptroller of Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Federal Operations Unit (FOU) Zone B, Comptroller Musa Ibrahim Jallo has disclosed that smuggled items seized under his watch is worth over two billion naira. Comptroller Jalo disclosed this while delivering a welcome address, when the Comptroller General of Customs, Bashir Adewale Adeniyi MFR, paid a working visit to […]
