The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Apapa Area Command, Lagos, has seized lion bones and pangolin scales worth N952 million. The Customs Area Controller of the command, Comptroller Mohammed Abba-Kura, disclosed this during a press briefing yesterday, Jan 27. Abba-Kura said the items were billed for export to Vietnam when they were intercepted. …
Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Lagos Zonal office, have arrested three Dubai-based suspected internet fraudsters along with 14 others in Lagos. The agency said in a statement that the suspects were arrested on Tuesday, January 26, and Wednesday 27, 2021 at different locations following series of intelligence detailing their alleged…
Nigeria generated N2.94 trillion in income from value-added tax (VAT) and company income tax (CIT) in the year 2020, data released by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), has revealed. The figure is about 10 per cent higher than the N2.68 billion recorded in 2019. The breakdown shows that the third quarter (Q3)…
An official of Lagos State Traffic Management Authority (LASTMA), Samson Olawale Akinmade has died in a hospital after being knocked down by a motorist at Mile 12, Ketu area of Lagos State. The deceased was carrying out his duties on Tuesday, Jan 26, when he was knocked down and he reportedly died in the…
As Nigeria continues to battle the second wave of the COVID19 pandemic, the Sultan of Sokoto, Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar, said the Federal government cannot force Nigerians to take the COVID19 vaccine. The Sultan who is the President-General, Nigeria Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs, state this during the sensitisation programme on COVID-19 vaccine for Muslim…
Senior Advocate of Nigeria and Human Rights Activist, Femi Falana has faulted the appointments of the service chiefs which according to him is “inchoate”. Falana in a statement he shared, argued that the service chiefs have only been nominated and not appointed because Buhari is yet to forward their names to the national assembly.…
Opeyemi Aiyeola has adopted a daughter. The actress who has two sons with her husband recently added a daughter named Blessing to her family. She annnnounced on Instagram that in addition to Samuel and David, she’s also mother to a girl named Blessing and she shared a photo she took with the newest…
A second police officer who responded to the attack on the Capitol by a violent mob on Jan. 6 has died by suicide, marking the third law enforcement death in the aftermath of the pro-Trump riot. Acting Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) chief, Robert Contee identified the officer as Jeffrey Smith, who he said was…
Hajiya Halima Alkali Umaru has died at the age of 101. She was the mother of late Major General Mohammed Idris Alkali, former Chief of Administration of the Nigerian Army. Retired General Alkali was declared missing on September, 3rd 2018, and later found dead in Plateau State. Hajiya Halima died in the…
1,861 new cases of COVID19 were recorded in Nigeria on Wednesday, January 27. According to the Nigeria Center for Disease Control, Lagos recorded 773 while the FCT recorded 285. Other states with fresh cases include Oyo-138, Rivers-111, Plateau-92, Nasarawa-83, Kaduna-59, Enugu-57, Imo-57, Edo-43, Kano-27, Kwara-20, Ebonyi-19, Abia-17, Ogun-12, Osun-12, Katsina-8, Bayelsa-6, Bauchi-5, Delta-5,…
