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Nigeria Customs Service NCS Kano Area Command, said it personnel has intercepted four trucks of food items as part of efforts to tackle smuggling. NCS in a statement by its spokesman Saidu Nuradeen in Kano today noted that personnel of the service intercepted the vehicles transporting a significant quantity of food items intended for illegal export along the Hadejia – Taura – Ringim axis in Jigawa. Nuradeen listed the food items to include 1,505 cartons of big and small-size dried fish, 17 bags of local variety rice, and two bags of beans. He pointed out that the seizure confirm the…

Agency Report Nine people were confirmed dead, while seven others sustained various degree of injuries in an accident involving a truck and a Mazda bus at Kere Bridge on the Lagos-Abeokuta expressway. Confirming the accident to newsmen today Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) spokesperson in Ogun, Mrs Florence Okpe said that the incident occurred at 8:00 a.m., caused by speeding and route violations, which led to a head-on collision between a truck, without a registration number and another bus, marked SMK 808 YD. She stated that a total of 17 persons were involved, comprising seven men, nine women, and one…

Kamil Opeyemi In its determination to rid Nasarawa state of ,criminals, the state Police Command on Tuesday raided a suspected kidnappers den in Nasarawa Eggon and arrested 109 illegal miners in the area. In compliance with the directive of the State Police Commissioner, Umar Shehu Nadada, the operation was carried out by Police in collaboration with the Vigilante Group. According to a statement by the Police Public Relation Officer, DSP Ranham Nansel, kidnappers had deserted all the camps before the arrival of the operatives. He said the CP had directed the Command’s Anti-kidnapping unit in collaboration with the Vigilante group…

By Femi Alabi Six persons have been confirmed dead while 10 others were injured in a fresh attack by bandits on Yar Nasarawa village in Faskari Local Government Area of Katsina State. This attack is coming barely a month after bandits killed two residents and abducted 29 others in an attack on Dan Alhaji and Yandaka villages in the Batsari Local Government Area of the State. Residents also revealed that bandits also attacked Ruwangodiya village in the same local government area on Monday night where they rustled an unspecified number of domestic animals. Sources disclosed that the bandits carried out…

By Halimah Olamide The three days of rains have brought relief to many Nigerians especially in the urban centres after the killing heatwave that had persisted for weeks. Lagos residents have witnessed heavy downpours since weekend with many of the rains leading to flood. However, the rains have come at a time that residents had become helpless over the worsening weather condition. The situation was further compounded with the worsening power supply in many parts of the country with incessant collapse of the national grid. The poor power supply had led to many sleeping outside their their houses especially where…

By Halimah Olamide Chairman of the UBA Group Mr. Tony Elumelu, has been scheduled to deliver the keynote address during the opening ceremony of 4th edition of the ECOWAS Mining and Petroleum Forum (ECOMOF 2024) scheduled to take place at the Palais des Congrès in Cotonou, Benin. The event will take place from February 22 to February 24, 2024. A statement made available to the NPO Reports said the regional event is expected to see a large gathering of key players and stakeholders in the mining and petroleum sectors of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS). It added…

By Femi Alabi Following the controversies trailing the All Progressives Congress APC Governoship primary in Edo state, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has said that it would only reckon with the exercise conducted at the venue communicated by the national leadership of the party. The Resident Electoral Commissioner in the state, Dr. Anugbum Onuoha held that the venue communicated to INEC by the APC national leadership was Lushville Hotel and Suites. Onuoha noted that, by the decision of the Supreme Court, only the national leadership of a political party and not the state leadership could determine the venue…

By Femi Alabi The Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities SSANU has said it will shut down activities in Nigeria universities if the backlog of salaries owed it’s members are not paid. The National President of SSANU, Mr Mohammed Ibrahim, complained about the union’s exclusion from the payment of the withheld salaries. He insisted that it was a great injustice against SSANU, saying the union was in no way angry that Academic Staff Union of Universities ASUU was paid but it deserved to be paid too. The salaries were withheld when the administration of former President Muhammadu Buhari invoked…

By Femi Alabi Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide has directed that Nigerians from the geopolitical zone should not partake in any planned national protest. President-General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide, Chief Emmanuel Iwuanyanwu, who gave the directive said he had received entreaties requesting him to call Nigerians from the geopolitical zone to join in the violent demonstration across country. He said the economists and experts would proffer advice to President Bola Tinubu on the economy, and Igbos would rally round the president to ensure that he completed his tenure. “As your leader, I am directing that no Igbo group or community in Nigeria…

By Femi Alabi The Federal Government has installed 30-second biometric clearance gates for the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) at all international airports across the country. The Minister of Interior, Dr Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo stated this on Monday in Abuja when he undertook a tour of the new biometric equipment installed at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja and the Command and Control Centre at the NIS headquarters, also in the nation’s capital. He said that the facilities would ensure effective and efficient management of international passengers in the country. Tunji-ojo said the biometric gates can screen and clear a passenger within…