Joseph Bakare The Nigeria Customs Service, Apapa Port Command has busted an attempt at smuggling illicit drugs worth a total of N1,183,915,500 (one billion, one hundred and eighty three million, nine hundred and fifteen thousand, five hundred naira into the country in 4 units of 40ft containers. Breakdown of the seizures shows they were 236,783 bottles of cough syrup containing codeine and barkadin cough syrup packed in a total of 2,174 cartons from two terminals under the command. Three of the seizures were made in APM Terminals and one was made at Kachicares Bonded Terminal. Giving further details on the…
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Joseph Bakare The National Agency for Science and Engineering Infrastructure (NASENI) has launched a week-long intensive training on ASPEN Plus, a process simulation software, at the agency’s Virtual Manufacturing Lab at its headquarters in Abuja. The hybrid training which was held across NASENI’s Development Institutes, marks a significant step forward in NASENI’s commitment to advancing technical capacity in renewable energy and engineering design. The opening ceremony featured remarks from Dr. Chika Ezeanyanso, Deputy Director of the Nano Science Department and representative of the Executive Vice Chairman (EVC) of NASENI. In her address, she emphasized NASENI’s dedication to providing its…
Vincent Ezenagu The Ministry of Police Officials, and Internally Generated Revenue Desk Officers in the Police Commands in collaboration with the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) are brainstorming in Enugu on the challenges of revenue and how to think outside the box to improve sources of revenue generation in the police ecosystem. The conference organized by the Ministry of Police Affairs with the theme “Evaluation of Internally Generated Revenue in the Ministry” draws on Desk Officers from Police Commands representing each geo-political zone of the country and facilitators from Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) held at the Carlton Swiss…
Yemisi Izuora African civil society organisations working to promote and defend sugar-sweetened beverage (SSB) taxes in Cameroon, Nigeria, and South Africa on Wednesday, 16 October 2024, jointly released a report exposing the beverage industry’s global campaign to thwart policies and weaken taxes that protect public health. The report, titled “Sweetened Profits: The Industry’s Playbook to Fight Sweetened Beverage Taxes,” demonstrates how the beverage industry, also referred to as Big Soda, uses a global playbook of strategies to deny, dilute, and delay effective policy on sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs) and other healthy food policies. The African CSOs are Corporate Accountability…
Joseph Bakare Justice Emeka Nwite of the Federal High Court, Abuja on Wednesday, October 16, 2024 ordered the final forfeiture of the sum of N2, 739,836,331.31(Two Billion, Seven Hundred and Thirty-nine Million, Eight Hundred and Thirty-six Thousand, Three Hundred and Thirty-one Naira, Thirty-one Kobo), being proceeds of illegal mining of solid minerals in Endo Community, Nasarawa State. The Judge gave the order following an application filed by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC through its counsel, Ekele Iheanacho, SAN, dated September 27, 2024, asking for the final forfeiture of the sum to the federal government, pursuant to…
Tunde Bakare Justices Hawaa Buhari and R.M Aikawa of the Federal High Court, Kaduna have convicted and sentenced Owoyale Shuaib (a.k.a Mary Lisa Goklool), Oluwafemi Moses Oluwatosin (a.k.a Douglas Chiater) and Wisdom Sambo Sammy (a.k.a Prudent Jameson) to various jail terms for fraud. The trio were prosecuted by the Kaduna Zonal Directorate of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC on one-count separate charges, bordering on impersonation and cybercrimes. The charge against Shuaib reads: “That you, Owoyale Shuaib (a.k.a Mary Lisa Goklool), Male, sometime in 2024 in Minna, Niger State, within the jurisdiction of this honourable…
Tunde Bakare Operatives of the Enugu Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC have arrested thirty-six (36) suspected internet fraudsters at different locations of Onitsha, Anambra State. The suspects were arrested on October 11, 2024 following actionable intelligence linking them with suspected online criminal activities. Upon arrest, preliminary investigations showed that the suspects impersonated foreign nationals using social media platforms to defraud unsuspecting victims. Items recovered from them include eight luxury vehicles, sophisticated brands of mobile phones and laptops. The suspects will be charged to Court as soon as investigations are concluded.
Francesca Odimgbe Women had taken the lead in the class of trainees empowered in various vocations in the just concluded 2023/2024 skill acquisition courses taken across the 19 skill centres of the Lagos State Government. Of the 5,512 graduands churned out across the skill acquisition centres on Wednesday, women took the significant number of beneficiaries, affirming the gender and inclusion policy encapsulated in the THEMES+ development agenda of the Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu administration. The graduands took courses in 19 crafts in the skill development programme supervised by the Ministry of Women Affairs and Poverty Alleviation (WAPA). Their training fees…
Francesca Odimgbe The Lagos State Deputy Governor, Dr. Obafemi Hamzat, has expressed the Lagos State Government’s readiness to host the GITEX Nigeria conference in September next year. He said the State Government and indeed the entire technology ecosystem in Nigeria would be very receptive to the coming of the global tech show to the country, especially Lagos State, where tech and innovation have found a good ground in Africa. Dr. Hamzat stated this during a meeting with Trixie LohMirmand, the Chief Executive Officer of Kaoun International, and her management team in the Lagos Pavilion at the ongoing…
Yemisi Izuora The Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency NIMASA, has proposed the adoption of Public- Private Partnership PPP model in order to develop and boost the country’s maritime infrastructure. Meanwhile, the Infrastructure Concession Regulatory Commission ICRC, has pledged to partner NIMASA as part of efforts to develop and boost infrastructure in Nigeria’s maritime sector. Speaking when he played host to the Director General of ICRC, Dr. Jobson Oseodion Ewalefoh, who was on a working visit, Director General of NIMASA, Dr Dayo Mobereola emphasised the importance of the Commission’s increased involvement in attracting private investors to develop infrastructural capacity…