Day: August 28, 2023

Importer Of N550m Tramadol Offers $54,300 Bribe To Customs

Abibat Babalola

How we intercepted drugs, rejected bribes – Customs       The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), on Monday, said it has arrested a Nigerian importer, Boniface Ike, for offering $54,330 (N50m) bribe to officers of the Tin-Can Island Command of the Service over the seizure of two 40ft containers laden with illicit and dangerous drugs imported into the country from India. Speaking at a press briefing in Lagos, the Customs Area Controller, Tin-Can Island Port, Compt. Adekunle Oloyede, stated that the unregistered pharmaceutical products, which were intercepted at the Lagos…

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Nigeria Has Ended Borrowing – Finance Minister

Gbenga Adeoti

+ What fuel subsidy removal has to do with it   The Nigerian Government says it has no intention to borrow from any local or foreign organisation with its removal of subsidy on petrol and exchange rate harmonisation. The Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister for the Economy, Chief Wale Edun, revealed this at the end of the inaugural Federal Executive Council meeting on Monday in Abuja. He said that the benefit of the subsidy removal would be ploughed back into various sectors aimed at boosting government revenue and improving…

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France Insist Ambassador’ll Not Quit Niger

Aliyu Aliyu

FRENCH President Emmanuel Macron insists that France Ambassador will remain in Niger after the 48-hour ultimatum given the envoy by the junta to leave. He said that France had not recognised the junta led by Gen. Abdourahamane Tchiani. Addressing French Ambassadors at an annual Conference on Monday, August 28, Macron praised the envoy for her courage and reiterated his support for Niger’s deposed and detained President Mohamed Bazoum. His statement comes amid tension and daily anti-French protests in Niamey with some protesters massed at the entrance of French military base,…

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Meet Neeraj, Serial Olympic Gold Medalist With 88.17m Throw At Budapest

Abibat Babalola

+ How the 25-year-old Neeraj scripted history at Wolrd Athletics Championships in Budapest, got gold medals in Olympics (Tokyo in 2021), Asian Games (2018) and Commonwealth Games (2018), and U-20 World Championships (2016)       Serial gold medalist Neeraj Chopra has got gold! Scripts History yet again, securing top spot for India with 88.17m Throw at World Athletics Championships in Budapest. Two other Indians, Kishore Jena and DP Manu, also impressed at the big stage. Although they didn’t get onto the podium, Jena with a throw of 84.77m (his personal best)…

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Niger: ECOWAS Demands Shorter Transition Period From Junta

Abibat Babalola

The Economic Community of West African States has demanded a shorter transition from the junta in Niger. The Chairman of the ECOWAS Authority of Heads of State and Government, President Bola Tinubu, told the Ulamas during a meeting with them on Thursday that the three-year transition proposed by the military leaders was unacceptable to the regional body. A member of the Islamic clerics who met with the President, the National Missioner, Ansar-udeen Society of Nigeria, Sheikh Abdulrahman Ahmad, disclosed this to The PUNCH in a phone interview on Saturday. READ…

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Reactions As Photos Of General Okoro’s Reunion With First Sergeant Go Viral

Gbenga Adeoti

“In all you do in this uniform today, always be good, for one day you will leave the job for others.”   The General Officer Commanding GOC 2 Division, Ibadan, Major General VT Okoro, recently has an emotion-evoking reunion with his first Chief Sergeant Major, WO Adegoke (Rtd.), years after they first met in the army., Platforms Africa reports. Quoting  to a tweet posted Sunday by one of Nigeria’s foremost military blogs, Adegoke, who was known as DanArewa in the army, and the Maj-Gen. Okoro met while the army general…

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