The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Port Harcourt Area 11, Onne Command, said it generated more than N118 billion in the first half of the 2023 fiscal year.Comptroller Imam Baba disclosed this in a statement signed by the Command Public Relations Officer, Spt. Benjamin Lomba, and made available to newsmen on
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The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has cut down the number of Bureau de Change (BDC) dealers to 2,991 from the over 5,689 earlier approved.On Wednesday, the CBN published a list of approved BDC’s which means the licenses of 2,698 BDCs have been revoked.In 2022 the CBN approved 5,689 black
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Anambra State government has said that the ongoing digitisation process in the local government service was aimed at achieving a more efficient service delivery instead of taking jobs from workers.The state commissioner for local government and town union matters, Mr TonyCollins Nwabunwanne, gave the assurance in an interview with the
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The Senate has commenced investigation into the activities of the Nigerian Customs Service (NCS) officers who are allegedly killing Nigerians at the border.The investigation followed a motion raised by Sen Abdulazeez Musa Yar'Adua (Katsina Central) that Nigerians are being killed by trigger-happy customs officers at checkpoints.But the Senate, while condemning
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National Boundary Commission (NBC) has urged Abia and Akwa Ibom states governments to demonstrate the political will to enforce resolutions on boundary disputes affecting their states.The director-general of the commission, Adamu Adaji, made the appeal in Abuja yesterday, during a joint meeting of officials (JMO) on Abia/Akwa Ibom Inter-state Boundary.The
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Colleges of Education Academic Staff Union (COEASU) has directed its members nationwide to go to work only two days in a week until the federal government attends to its demand of a 200 per cent increase in salary.COEASU national president, Dr Smart Olugbeko, in a statement yesterday, said the decision
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President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has reappointed Mohamed Goni Alkali as the managing director, North East Development Commission (NEDC).Alkali will start a second term of four years after his screening and confirmation by the Senate.Alkali's name came to the Senate when President Tinubu sent a letter requesting for the screening and
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Justice Fadima Aminu of the Federal High Court sitting in Damaturu, Yobe State, has ordered a former minister of science and technology, Dr Abdul Bulama and four others to enter their defence in the N450 million fraud charge preferred against them by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).Ruling on
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Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has met with its electoral officers as part of its review of the 2023 general election.The commission noted that the success of any election primarily depends on the ability to deploy personnel and materials to various locations, which involves the biggest logistic deployment the nation
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The Department of State Services (DSS) has debunked claims by the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) that Enugu State governor Peter Mbah forged his discharge certificate.The security agency indicted the NYSC for shoddy and hasty investigation in arriving at the conclusion that Mbah’s NYSC discharge certificate was fake. It said certificates
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