The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has generated N466.1 billion revenue in the first quarter of 2021. The statistics obtained from the office of the Public Relations Officer of the service, Mr Joseph Attah on Tuesday, showed that the revenue was generated from January to March. The data indicated that the NCS realised the highest revenue in March with N169.4 billion followed by January with N157.6 billion while the sum of N138.9 billion was generated in February. The document showed that customs realised the highest revenue of N216.9 billion within the period under review from import duty. According to the statistics,…
Author: Abdallah el-Kurebe
Vice President of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) Ahmed Saeed, has described multilateralism as the key to confronting major challenges around the world. Saeed, who made the description in an interview with Xinhua, lauded the role the ongoing Boao Forum for Asia (BFA) had played in fostering regional cooperation and integration. The ADB vice president told Xinhua that he believed international cooperation was vital for overcoming major international challenges, including the Coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19), ensuring equitable and inclusive growth, and climate change. “If we look at every single, significant problem that we must address if we get international cooperation right,…
The latest Press Freedom Index, released on Tuesday by Reporters Without Borders (RSF) no longer include Germany among the leading nations. Of the 180 countries assessed, Germany came 13th, down two spots from last year’s ranking. “Due to many attacks during demonstrations against measures to contain the pandemic, we had to reduce Germany’s grade for press freedom from `good’ to only ‘satisfactory,’ which is clearly an alarm signal,’’ said RSF board spokesperson Michael Rediske. Violence against media professionals in Germany has reached unprecedented levels, he said. There were at least 65 acts of violence against journalists in the country in…
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has called for specific commitments and real action to fight climate change after speaking out about the severity of the climatic disruptions that have raged on the planet. The UN chief called for the commitments at the joint hybrid news conference with the Secretary-General of the World Meteorological Organisation, Petteri Taalas to launch the State of the Global Climate in 2020 Report. “We must agree to a common direction of travel. “The United Nations is building a global coalition committed to net zero emissions — to cover all countries, cities, regions, businesses, and financial institutions.”…
Unity Bank Plc on Tuesday announced an asset base of N492.02 billion for the financial year ended Dec. 31, 2020. The bank in its audited result released by the Nigerian Exchange Ltd., said its total assets rose by 67.90 per cent when compared with N293.05 billion achieved in the comparative period of 2019. The bank’s customer deposit portfolio grew by 34.4 per cent to N356.62 billion, up from N257.69 billion posted in the corresponding period of 2019. The bank posted gross earnings of N42.71 billion compared with N44.59 billion recorded in the comparative period of 2019. Profit after tax stood…
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has conducted 1,870,915 COVID-19 tests in the country of over 200 million people since Feb. 27, 2020. The NCDC disclosed this on its official Twitter handle on Monday. The health agency tested some 32,741 samples for the coronavirus (COVID-19) in one week. Lower than the 34,997 tests conducted the previous week. The agency said that the 1,870,915 tests were carried out in the 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory, since the beginning of the pandemic in the country. The NCDC disclosed that additional 70 people across the country were affected, bringing the number of…
The Director, National Tuberculosis and Leprosy Control Programme, Mrs Uko Itohowo says COVID-19 has worsened Tuberculosis (TB) cases in Nigeria as about 60 per cent of patients go unnoticed and untreated. Itohowo said this on Monday in a virtual media seminar with newsmen in Ilorin. She said that according to the 2020 World Health Organisation (WHO) report, Nigeria is ranked first in leading cases of TB in Africa and sixth in the world. She said currently, TB kills 18 Nigerians every hour, with a record number of 47 Nigerians developing active TB every hour, seven of which are children. Itohowo…
By Stanley Ihedigbo, Lagos Nigerian government has assured its full support to the All Farmers Association of Nigerian, AFAN, as Farouk Mudi emerges as the new National President. The Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Muhammad Nanono gave the assurance while speaking at the three-day General Assembly of Farmers (GAF 2021) in Kano last Tuesday. Congratulating the new AFAN president, the minister, while assuring of his ministry’s support in order to make sure he succeed, said that the federal government have good plans for Nigeria farmers, because of the important role they play in the country. Responding, Mudi commended the minister…
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has dismissed as false, the purported suspension of former Kano State Governor, Sen. Rabiu Kwankwaso from the party. In a statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Mr Kola Ologbondiyan in Abuja on Sunday, the PDP also said former governor of Niger, Babangida Aliyu was also not suspended. The party was reacting to a document being circulated in which Kwankwaso was queried and suspended by the Kano State chapter of the PDP. The PDP dismissed the document, saying it was circulated by some mischievous individuals. “The PDP states clearly that Kwakwanso is not suspended from the…
The Nigerian Army says the troops of 27 Task Force Brigade on the platform of Operation Lafiya Dole have arrested suspected Boko Haram informant identified as Modu Ari, in Kamuya area of Yobe. The Director, Army Public Relations, Brig.-Gen. Mohammed Yerima, said this in a statement issued on Sunday in Abuja. He said the activities of the suspect and his accomplices were responsible for the recent attacks on troops position by terrorists in the area. Yerima said the suspect confessed during interrogation to have revealed troops’ movements and position to his Boko Haram collaborators. According to him, the investigation is…