Ogun State Governor, Prince Dapo Abiodun, has pleaded with the operatives of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) to be civil with market women and men regarding complaints of invasion of shops and warehouses in markets across the state. Traders in the state had accused Customs officers of breaking into their shops and warehouses in a bid to search for smuggled goods. The Governor made the appeal while receiving the Comptroller General of Customs, Mr. Adewale Adeniyi, in his office. Governor Abiodun stressed that while there are bound to be some unscrupulous individuals who could be found wanting over the issue…
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The board of Lagos State Football Association(LSFA) led by Hajji Gafar Olawale Liameed, on Saturday, 17 August, 2024 announced the appointment of Wale Joseph, a veteran sports journalist and former Lagos FA board member as the Chief Executive Officer, of the State Football League. The board also appointed experienced football administrator, Dele Gbajumo, as the Chief Executive officer, of the State Under-15 and Under-17 football leagues. Speaking at the LSFA Secretariat on Saturday, during the meeting with the State Divisional FAs and the State Football League Clubs, the Vice-Chairman of LSFA, Dotun Coker, said the board is determined to develop…
A Vietnam-bound businessman, Paul Mbadugha has been arrested by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja after he tested positive to ingestion of cocaine. The 54-year-old suspect was intercepted at the boarding gate of the Abuja airport last Monday during the outward clearance of Qatar Airways flight QR 1432 to Hanoi, Vietnam via Doha. The spokesman of the anti-narcotics agency, Femi Babafemi in a statement on Sunday said after four days under excretion observation, Mbadugha egressed a total of 88 wraps of cocaine with a gross weight of 1.71 kilogrammes. Babafemi…
A star studded musical concerts are in the works as part of the activities to kick start the burial of Architect Aibangbee Harris Igiehon otherwise known as Aibtonia, who bowed out in far away America recently. The concerts will take place at The Freedom Park in Lagos on the 2nd of February 2025 and in Benin city between the 6th and 9th of February 2025 when he will be laid to rest at his residence in the Edo State capital Aibtonia in his days brought life to live outdoor music concerts in Nigeria. His forays into the Nigerian entertainment industry…
Ambassador Omodele Adebola, CEO of BAYS BAR/DE GRAND HOTEL AND ROOFTOP, has issued a call to action to the Governor of Cross River State, Senator (Prince) Bassey Edet Otu, urging swift and strategic interventions to rejuvenate the state’s tourism sector. Armed with deep roots in the local hospitality industry and over 100 employees under his leadership, Adebola’s commitment to the state’s economic prosperity is both personal and professional. In an open letter, Adebola highlighted the pressing need for improvements at Margaret Ekpo International Airport, which he describes as critically underutilized due to its lack of landing facilities at night and…
From Chuks Collins, Awka The Anambra State Commissioner for Sports Development, Mr Patrick Aghamba and his wife who were kidnapped in Kogi State on Friday, 16 August, 2024, have regained their freedom. They were abducted by yet-to-be identified gunmen while on their way to Abuja to attend the wedding of Anambra’s Gov Chukwuma Soludo’s daughter’s wedding on Saturday, 17 August, 2024. The gunmen were reported to have shot and killed the Commissioner’s aide who had accompanied the couple on the journey. No official comment has come from the state government either about the kidnap or the reported release of the…
From Chuks Collins, Awka The Chief Edozie Njoku-led All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) chapter in Anambra State has cried out over what it described as plans to disenfranchise the party in the forthcoming local government elections in the state by Gov Chukwuma Soludo. The party national officers led by the National Administrative Secretary of APGA, Okoro Chinedum Benedict, who stormed Awka on Friday, 16 August, 2024, said that armed political thugs and cultists have been hounding the state and national officers of the party at scheduled meetings organized to prepare for the coming council polls. The national executive officers led…
Deputy Speaker, Nigeria’s House of Representatives, Rt. Hon. Benjamin Kalu has identified accountability, credibility, and transparency as central themes in the work of the ECOWAS Parliament’s Joint Committee he is heading. He said this in an interview with journalists in Abidjan, Cote D’Voire, on the sidelines of the committee’s delocalised meeting. Kalu is the Chairman of the parliament’s Joint Committee on Administration, Finance, Budget, Public Accounts, Macroeconomic Policy and Economic Research. The lawmaker explained that all the financial committees under the aegis of the joint committee seek to interrogate the financial health of the parliament. He said: “For instance, what…
The Deputy Speaker, Nigeria’s House of Representatives, Rt. Hon. Benjamin Kalu has said the ECOWAS Parliament has not given up on getting Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger realign with other countries in the regional bloc, stating that already put in place by the West African legislative arm is a parliamentary diplomacy mechanisms to bring back the departing sister countries. Kalu made the disclosure in an interview with journalists in Abidjan, Cote D’Voire. He said there was no cause for alarm over the bloc’s perceived existential threat posed by violent extremism, and the exit threats from ECOWAS by the three Sahelian…
Deputy Speaker, Nigeria’s House of Representatives, Rt. Hon. Benjamin Kalu has revealed the plan of Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Parliament to amend its Supplementary Act so as to entrench Separation of Powers and guarantee legislative autonomy. Kalu disclosed this in Abidjan, Cote D’voire, during an interview with journalists at the sidelines of a meeting of ECOWAS Parliament’s Joint Committee on Administration, Finance, Budget, Public Accounts, Macroeconomic Policy and Economic Research, of which he is the Chairman. According to him, when laws become obsolete, they outlive their usefulness to the dynamic society, hence, the need to amend them…