Exporters and importers sending and receiving cargoes through the Murtala Muhammed International Airport terminal (MMIA) Lagos have seen a stop in their various businesses in the last one week over the strike action of customs agents. The Association of Nigerian Licensed Customs Agents (ANCLA), MMIA airport chapter, withdrew their services on April 25th of this …
Kenyan investigators and authorities on Tuesday 25th April discovered ten (10) more bodies from the mass graves linked to a starvation cult (occultism group whom it followers starved themselves to death), bringing the total number of victims to 83 in total for now, a credible journalist source at the scene said, as fears grow of …
Not more than three people have been feared dead and more than five others injured in a community clash that involved some Gbagyi ( rightful indigenes of Abuja) and Hausa youths in the 3rd Avenue area of Gwarinpa, Abuja. Reports from the Federal Capital Territory Police Command, however, said only one person died in the …
Nigeria has missed an opportunity to manufacture and sell approximately 65,700,000 (sixty-five million and seven hundred thousand) barrels of oil in the last one year due to matters bothering on pipeline vandalism and the consequent oil theft. This restates to about N2.3 trillion loss in oil revenue if the prevailing exchange rate and average oil …
Policemen stationed in kwara have arrested a Point of Sale (POS) operator who reportedly went on a spending spree after N280m was mistakenly transferred to his account by a commercial bank. The crook operator identified as Alfa Rafiu was arrested by the police on Monday 17th April in Ilorin, Kwara State capital. News outlets gathered …
A Grade I Area Court around Dei-Dei, Abuja, on Monday 17th of April 2023, ordered the remand of a 30year-old woman, Miss Jumoke Cyril, in Suleja Correctional facility for allegedly swindling one Mr. Alade Nelson and 12 others in the sum of N478,000. Miss Cyril who resides in the area of Zuba was charged with …
The Federal Government of Nigeria, through the Ministry of Aviation, has issued a strong plea to aviation unions to end their ongoing strike, which has caused immense disruption to air travel across the country. The federal government also expressed its displeasure at the ongoing warning strike issued by the aviation unions in spite of efforts …
Nigerians living in Nigeria imported items worth not less than N18.12 trillion from the forex ban list of the Central Bank of Nigeria between 2016 and 2022, findings shown by Nigerian Foreign Trade reports of the National Bureau of Statistics. The central bank had categorized about 41 import items as not valid for forex, which …
The Standing Port Task Team of the Nigerian Shippers’ Council claimed it had saved the country’s economy over N5.4 billion from 2021 to 2022 as demurrages that were paid annually by ships ploughing Nigerian ports. Speaking in the largest port (Lagos) recently at the meeting of the Presidential Port Standing Task Team (PPSTT), Mr Moses …
The federal government of Nigeria, through the Nigeria Sovereign Investment Authority (NSIA) and Vitol, an energy and commodity trader entity, has signed a $50 million joint venture company known as Carbon Vista to invest in projects that will regulate greenhouse gas emissions in different sectors. The joint venture agreement was designed to invest in a range of …