President Bola Tinubu has congratulated six Diaspora Nigerians listed among the 400 Presidential Early Career Award recipients for scientists and engineers in the United States. According to a statement issued on Thursday by Bayo Onanuga, the Special Adviser to the President on Information and Strategy, the President commended the Nigerians for their remarkable achievements in […]
The Nigeria Governors Forum has endorsed the Tax Reform Bills before the National Assembly. The governors endorsed the bills after their one-day consultations and engagements with the Presidential Tax Reform Committee and the Federal Inland Revenue Service. According to a communique issued at the end of the meeting, the governors expressed agreement to maintain the […]
With 30 miles (48 km) of tall black temporary fencing, 25,000 law enforcement officers and security checkpoints set up to process hundreds of thousands of spectators, Washington is braced for President-Elect Donald Trump’s inauguration next week. The Monday swearing-in on the steps of the U.S. Capitol and parade to the White House will follow a […]
The Honourable Minister of State for Defence, H. E. Dr. Bello Mohammed Matawalle, MON, has called for increased collaboration and funding for the Defence sector to effectively combat and eliminate banditry and other forms of criminality across the nation. The Minister made this appeal during the presentation of the 2025 Budget Proposal for the Ministry […]
An Award dinner being organized by maritime journalists in honour of the Comptroller General of Nigeria Customs Service, Bashir Adewale Adeniyi MFR, has been postponed. Nigeria Maritime Journalists NMJ, a body of all media practitioners in the maritime subsector announced the postponement of the scheduled award dinner this afternoon. The CGC, was scheduled for honour […]
The Nigeria Customs Service generated a total sum of ₦6,105,315,543,489.50 (Six Trillion, One Hundred and Five Billion, Three Hundred and Fifteen Million, Five Hundred and Forty-Three Thousand, Four Hundred and Eighty-Nine Naira, Fifty Kobo), surpassing the target of ₦5,079,069,866,085.50 by ₦1,026,245,677,404.00, representing a 20.2% increase above the target in 2024. The Comptroller General of the […]
The determination of the current leadership of the Commerce and Industry Correspondents Association of Nigeria, (CICAN), to expand its tentacle in the new year has yielded a positive result as a leading player in the public relations business landscape, Integrated Indigo Limited, expressed its desire to collaborate with the association towards building a symbiotic relationship […]
For the available 3,927 job positions, the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has received 573,519 applications for its 2024/2025 recruitment exercise, a week after opening the portal. Recall that Minister of Finance, Olawale Edun made it known that the Federal Government approved the recruitment of 3,927 officers into the Service. Giving an update on the process, […]
Bomb explosion at the Tsangagyar Sani Uthman Islamiyya School in Kuchibuyi village, Bwari Area Council, Abuja, has been confirmed by Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Police Command to have left two people dead and two others injured. The explosion, which occurred on Monday, January 6, at approximately 11:00 am, involved an improvised explosive device (IED), according […]
Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), have arrested a wanted drug kingpin and Lagos socialite, 61-year-old Alhaja Aishat Elediye over illicit drug shipment. A statement by the agency’s Director, Media and Advocacy, Mr Femi Babafemi announced on Sunday in Abuja. Babafemi said that the suspect was arrested on Jan. 1 in her […]