The Lagos Government on Monday said it would not hesitate to seal the properties of residents who default in paying their Land Use Charge (LUC), just as it warned that it may explore the option of prosecuting defaulters according to the Law. Addressing journalists at the Bagauda Kaltho Press Centre in Alausa Secretariat, Commissioner for…
Day: April 19, 2016
Customs Seizes Petrol Tanker With Smuggled Clothings
Officers of the Nigerian Customs Service, NCS, have confiscated a petrol truck filled with bales of smuggled second hand clothings. The heavy duty vehicle was seized by the Customs on Sunday, April 3, 2016, along the Gasau road in Zamfara State. It was learnt that the tanker was carrying 100 bales of the smuggled clothings…
IBB Critically Ill, Unable To Walk Alone
According to ThisDay, former military president, Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida, is seriously sick and he is unable to walk unaided. The publication based its report on information relayed to it by a source close to the retired army general’s hilltop mansion in Minna, Niger State. The report said IBB’s illness has made it impossible for him…
ICPC Probes Governor For Diverting Bailout Funds
Chairman of Independent Corrupt Practices and Allied Offences Commission, ICPC, Ekpo Nta, has disclosed that the commission was investigating a state governor for alleged diversion of bailout funds meant for the payment of workers’ salaries. Nta made this known when he received students of the National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies, NIPSS, who were…
Economy Will Boom In 2018—Emefiele
Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Godwin Emefiele, has predicted that the economy would experience a boom by the end of 2018 just as he hinted of a hike in interest rate by May 2016 at the Monetary Policy Committee, MPC, of the Apex Bank, following the inflation rate that has galloped to…
NSCDC Destroys 700 Drums Of Illegally Refined Diesel
Operatives of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps on Friday destroyed over 700 drums of illegally refined automotive gas oil popularly known as diesel. The men of the NSCDC, Rivers State Command, had after being tipped off, stormed an illegal warehouse used in storing refined AGO in large quantities in Ogbogoro community, Obio/Akpor…
Farmers/Herdsmen Conflicts Threaten Nigeria—FG
fulani The Federal Government has stressed that the recently clashes between herdsmen and farmers in some parts of the country could affect Nigeria’s unity. Minister of Interior, Abdulrahman Dambazau, who spoke the opening session of the Strategic Stakeholders Meeting on the Pastoralists/Sedentary Farmers Conflict in Nigeria held in Abuja recently, noted that a complex approach…
FG Tasks Workers On Health Status
Federal Public Servants in the country have been urged to take seriously the habit of doing regular medical check-up, in order to ensure an effective service delivery and punctuality. This charge was given Head of the Civil Service of the Federation, Winifred Oyo-Ita, in Abuja when she declared open a five-day free medical check-up for…
No New Court Ruling Stops Us Imposing Fines—FRSC
The Federal Road Safety Corps, FRSC, says there is no new court judgement restraining it from imposing fines on traffic offenders caught by its men. The agency was reacting to a trending post on social media that Federal High Court recently ruled that the FRSC cannot impose fines on motorist, saying that an appeal court…
24 Soldiers Wounded In Boko Haram Attack
The Nigerian Army says not less than 22 soldiers were injured during an attack by Boko Haram terrorists at Kareto in northern Borno State. On Monday, the army came under a serious attack from the insurgents, but the Nigerian troops engaged them in a fierce gun battle. Acting Director Army Public Relations, Colonel Sani Kukasheka…