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The Federal Operations Unit Zone A, of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) on Thursday, said it intercepted about 156 trailer loads of rice, 656,414 liters of premium motor spirit (PMS) other contraband worth N13,908 billion in 2022. The acting Controller of the Unit, DC Hussein Ejibunu, who stated this while addressing newsmen in Lagos, said that the Unit lost four officers to smuggling fight …

Five governors on the platform of the Peoples Democratic (PDP), known as G-5 Governors, or Integrity Group, yesterday, kept silence on their preferred presidential candidate for the 2023 general elections.  The five governors comprising Nyesom Wike (Rivers), Samuel Ortom (Benue), Okezie Ikpeazu (Abia), Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi (Enugu) and Seyi Makinde (Oyo), however, said they remain committed members of PDP. They implored Nigerians …

• Warn on wrong steps ahead of elections• It’s significant year for Nigerians, says Ajibola• ‘How electoral outcome will determine economic progress’• Inflation, cost of living crisis among major challenges Stakeholders across business communities have said insecurity, financial leakages, free fall of naira, rising debt, and other factors could stall economic progress, as the country heads into elections.While insisting that …

..Psychiatrists hail action Decades after mental health regulatory reforms have languished in the legislative chambers with failed attempts at overhaul in 2003 and 2013; President Muhammadu Buhari has finally signed into law the Mental Health Bill harmonised by both Houses of Assembly in 2021. The signing which seems to be a parting gift to Nigerians from the president is also …

In this report, Deji Lambo writes on the tortuous journey of a mother of three, Fortune Obhafuoso; her failed plan to make her life better through surrogacy; and other risky episodes that culminated in a policeman allegedly conniving with yet-to-be-identified persons to pay her N185,000 after collecting her newborn against her will Fortune Obhafuoso, 35, was embittered as she gave …

Edo State government will immortalize the late Daniel Omoigui, Nigeria’s first Surveyor-General of the Federation, the State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki said on Thursday. Obaseki, at the funeral mass of the late surveyor held at St Paul’s Catholic Church in Benin City, described the late Omoigui as a genius and true Edo icon who left several footprints in the sands …

Kevin McCarthy came up short once again on Thursday as he lost the ninth House vote to elect a new House speaker – the same number of voting rounds needed in 1923, which is the last time multiple ballots took place for the speakership. The House is now moving to a tenth round of voting, which will make this the …

All government transactions will be carried out on the basis of electronic transfer if the amount exceed the approved daily withdrawals by the Central Bank of Nigeria under the new monetary policy, the Director and Chief Executive Officer of the Nigerian Financial and Intelligence Unit, NFIU, Modibbo Tukur, announced this in Abuja on Thursday. Modibbo said that under the guidelines, …

SAN FRANCISCO — Officials in California ordered evacuations in a high-risk coastal area where mudslides killed 23 people in 2018 as a huge storm barreled into the state Wednesday, bringing high winds and rain that threatened widespread flooding and knocked out power to more than 100,000 people. The storm was expected to dump up to 6 inches (152.4 millimeters) of …

Blame alleged illegal activities of security agents The Petroleum Tanker Drivers branch of National Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers, (PTD-NUPENG) has threatened a strike action over what it described as “illegal activities and high-handedness of security agents, particularly, the military task force operating in the Port Harcourt zone of the union.” Speaking to reporters in Abuja, yesterday, National …