By Beluchi Chinwuba-Lagos Controller Federal Operations Unit Zone ‘A’ Deputy Comptroller of Customs Turaki Usman Adamu has announced the siezure of 6,550 cartons of smuggled frozen poultry products. Adamu also said the unit has deployed undercover operatives to monitor all the flash points and ensure that Nigerians are not fed with the unwholesome products. Adamu who made the disclosure through Assistant Comptroller of Customs Adamu Abubakar Mohammed, the Officer In Charge of Lagos Roving Operations spoke the need to ensure proper monitoring of areas under its supervision. He noted that the unit has taken some far reaching decisions geared towards…
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By Yemisi Izuora-Lagos Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) has asked cargo flight operators not to consider bringing their cargoes to the Murtala Muhammed Airpot due to congestions being experienced at this time. FAAN therefore urged the operators to find alternative entry points for their cargo rather than the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Ikeja, Lagos. Already, FAAN has advised the Nigerian Airspace Manager Agency to issue a Notice to Airmen (NOTAM) to this effect. Yakubu Dati General Manager, Corporate Communications of the agency who issued this advise said this has become imperative due to the congestion created by…
By Yemisi Izuora-Lagos The Director –General of Sir Ahmadu Bello International Airport, Birin Kebbi, Alhaji Abubakar Umar Dakingari has explained why the state government invested in the airport project. Dakingari in his explanation said the project was envisaged to boost the export of farm produce, enhance socio-economic development and prepare the state for foreign investment. Presently the state exports farm produce like onions, maize and rice to North African countries, Asia and also to the local markets in Lagos, Kano, South East and South, South as the largest onion and rice producer in the country. But, because the state did…
By Yemisi Izuora-Lagos Stakeholders in insurance sector have expressed optimism that the creation of new policies in the insurance industry would create more jobs in 2015 as the industry has the potential for improvement next year. Dr Adelayin Oniwuide, a former President of Chartered Insurance Institute of Nigeria (CIIN), said that the industry had created some micro insurance products that would boost its premium. “I am aware that the insurance sector is carrying out various awareness programme on its products such as the agricultural policy. “With shopping malls and houses springing up in different locations, people will want to take…
Culled from the Ecologist COP20 has just laid the foundations for a non-agreement in Paris in 2015, writes Assaad Razzouk – thanks to the pernicious influence of fossil fuels, poisoning debate and subverting serious climate action. Now there’s only one earthly power big enough to fight back. We need to stop Big Oil’s efforts to silence the substantive debates experts are trying to have around the world about the most effective way to shift to 100% clean energy by 2050. The annual UN Climate Talks ended on Sunday in Lima, Peru. In case you were wondering, nothing happened. In fact,…
Source-Reuters Suspected Boko Haram gunmen kidnapped more than 100 women and children and killed 35 other people on Sunday during a raid on the remote northeast Nigerian village of Gumsuri, a security source and resident said on Thursday. Although no one has claimed it yet, the attack bore the hallmarks of Boko Haram, which abducted more than 200 women in April from a secondary school in Chibok, only 24 km (15 miles) from this latest attack. Its campaign for an Islamic state by Boko Haram, whose name means “Western education is sinful”, has become the gravest threat to Africa’s biggest…
By Yemisi Izuora-Lagos Customers of United Bank for Africa (UBA) Plc in the 18 African countries where the bank has operations can now receive transaction alerts on their twitter handle as direct messages a feat the bank says is an innovation to be launched first from the pan-African bank and currently the only bank in Africa to offer this service. “What we have done is take social media banking to a new level. Twitter is increasingly becoming a popular means of communication especially among the young adults. As a highly innovative bank, we are giving the Millennials, who are increasingly banking…
By Yemisi Izuora-Lagos Flour Mills of Nigeria Plc. has held its 2014 Employees Award Day at a colourful ceremony,during which the company honoured its high performing employees, retiring employees, long serving employees, “Duty Pilots” for its core values – PIILOT and graduating trainees. Plaques certificates and other gifts were given to more than 100 deserving employees based on outstanding performance, promotion and excellence in demonstrating and exemplifying the company’s core values in their day-to-day activities. Prominent amongst the awardees was the retiring Human Resources Director, Mrs. Mary Uraih, who served the company for over 30 years. In his…