N110m, $8,368, €2,725 recovered as EFCC, JTF arrest 115 suspected currency racketeers in Enugu
Operatives of the Enugu Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, in conjunction with a Joint Task Force comprising five teams from the Nigeria Police Force and three teams from the Nigeria Customs Service on Wednesday, arrested 115 suspected currency racketeers in Enugu State. According to a statement by the EFCC’s head of […]
FG Stops Export Of Cooking Gas To Reduce Price
The Minister of State Petroleum Resources (gas), Hon Ekperikpe Ekpo has disclosed there will be no export of Liquefied Petroleum gas (cookinggas) until local demand has been met. The Minister who disclosed this at a workshop in Abuja on Thursday said the government was working to improve supply to the domestic market. Government’s intervention came as the price of cookinggas rose […]
No Going Back On Economic Reforms – President Tinubu
President Bola TinubuPresident Bola Ahmed Tinubu has said that despite the challenges witnessed in the country due to the new reforms initiated by his administration, there is no going back.Tinubu who spoke in Abuja on Thursday, February 22, when he hosted a delegation from the Corporate Council on Africa (CCA) led by Florizelle Liser, its […]
Gunmen Release Family Members Who Were Kidnapped While Conveying Corpse In Enugu
The three family members who were abducted by gunmen over the weekend while transporting the remains of their late brother, Israel Ugwuanyi, who passed away in Lagos State, have been released. SaharaReporters had reported on Monday that some hoodlums had reportedly seized a corpse and kidnapped members of a family conveying the remains of the […]
Palliative: Customs commence food distribution, sells 25kg of rice for N10,000
The Nigeria Customs Service, NCS, will today commence the sale of seized bags of rice to the public at the rate of N10,000 per 25kg . Disclosing this to newsmen in Lagos, Comptroller General of the NCS, Mr. Adewale Adeniyi, said the process for the sale of the food items has been perfected such that […]
Court, police bar journalists from covering trial of Ex-Kwara Gov Ahmed
The Federal High Court in Ilorin barred journalists from entering the court premises to cover the trial of the immediate past governor of Kwara State, AbdulFatah Ahmed. Friday for trial over N10 billion of the state fund he allegedly misappropriated. The former governor was brought into the Federal High Court at Fare Road in Ilorin […]
Senate Passes South East Development Commission Bill
Nearly two months following its approval by the House of Representatives, the Senate passed a bill at plenary on Thursday, aiming to establish the South East Development Commission.During plenary on Wednesday, Michael Opeyemi, the Senate Leader, and senator representing Ekiti Central, presented the Bill for an Act to Act as a Catalyst to Develop the […]
Again, Customs Intercepts Niger Republic Bound Grains In Kebbi
The Zone ‘B” Federal Operations Unit of the Nigeria Customs Service has intercepted two Niger Republic bound trucks loaded with grains, on Thursday.In the last few days, officials of the Nigeria Customs Service have intercepted grains being taken to Niger Republic in Katsina, Sokoto, Kano and Jigawa states.PREMIUM TIMES gathered through a service intelligence report that […]
Customs to start distributing seized food items today
The Comptroller General of Customs, Adewale Adeniyi, has said that the distribution of seized food items would commence on Friday.Adeniyi, while speaking with journalists on Thursday in Lagos, warned that the distributed seized food items was not to be resold.Adeniyi also warned that customs officers were banned from partaking in the exercise, adding that the […]