The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) says it will generate whopping revenue of $176 billion over the next 20 years through the implementation of e-customs project. The NCS Comptroller-General, retired Col. Hameed Ali, disclosed this on Monday in Abuja during the signing of e-Customs concession agreement between the NCS, Africa Finance Corporation (AFC) and China’s Huawei Technologies Limited. Ali said that the e-Customs concession project would ease the cost of doing business, boost revenue, enhance productivity and stop arbitrariness in the service. He said, “The $3.2 billion e-Customs project to be financed by the Africa Finance Corporation (AFC) and managed by…
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By Justina Auta AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF), an NGO, in partnership with the federal government, on Monday sensitised students with disability in the Federal Capital Territory on menstrual hygiene health and management. The event, which was organised by the foundation, was commemorated in partnership with the Federal Ministries of Health, Education and Women Affairs, at the School of the Deaf, Kuje near Abuja. The Menstrual Hygiene Day (MH Day) is annually celebrated on May 28 in many countries around the globe. Menstruation is the monthly shedding of the lining of a woman’s uterus, commonly known as the womb. Menstruation also…
Osun state governor, Gboyega Oyetola has released N1.1 billion for the payment of pensions of retired civil servants in the state. A statement by the Head of Service, Dr Festus Olowogboyega, on Monday in Osogbo, said that N 600 million of the money would be for the payment of retired primary school teachers and local government workers. Olowogboyega said that the remaining N500 million was approved for the payment of civil servants under the contributory pension. He said the selected retirees would get their bonds on June 2. Olowogboyega also said that the list of beneficiaries had been pasted on the notice board…
A High Court in Damaturu, Yobe, on Monday ordered MTN Telecommunications limited and Nigeria Electricity Liability Management Limited/GTE (NELMCO), to pay N200 million to Hamsatu Abdullahi for negligence. Justice M. Lawu Lawan said: “I hold that the plaintiff has dully established by oral and documentary credible and unchallenged evidence against the defendants. “I equally hold that the plaintiff is entitled to claims from the defendants jointly and severally as compensation or general damages for the permanent disablement via the loss of her two hands, right leg. “This led to continuous pains, medical treatment, anguish, shock and continuous psychological trauma and…
TAJBank Limited, Nigeria’s leading non-interest bank, says it recorded Profit Before Tax (PBT) of N1.6 billion in Financial Year 2021. The bank’s Managing Director, Mr Hamid Joda, said in a statement that the growth represented 433 per cent improvement on the bank’s profit for 2020. Joda said that the bank also recorded 117 per cent growth in gross revenue, from N3.3 billion to N7.2 billion. “In the period under review, TAJBank recorded positive indicators which showed the remarkable growth that the nascent bank continues to achieve. “The bank’s financial results showed a rise in its balance sheet figure from N50…
The Chairman, Board of Trustees (BoT) of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Sen. Walid Jibrin has described the emergence of Atiku Abubakar as PDP presidential candidate as a huge success for the party. Jibrin in a statement issued on Monday in Abuja also described it as a good omen for all Nigerians. He said that the former vice president’s success had opened a way for all Nigerians as far as the 2023 general elections were concerned. The BoT chairman recalled how Abubakar had been elected at the PDP presidential primaries in Port-Harcourt in 2019 and how it was sabotaged. “We must…
The Regional President of Pfizer Africa and Middle East (AfME), Mr Patrick Van der Loo, says the company is working on achieving its 2023 target of reducing by 50 per cent the number of people without access to lifesaving medicines and vaccines. Van der Loo in a virtual interview held on Monday, said inequity in access to medicine and vaccines could result in severe medical, social and economic consequences including increased mortality. According to him, COVID-19 pandemic highlights the complexity of access to quality health and the inequality that exists between wealthy and poor nations. He acknowledged that solving access…
The Nigerian Army has debunked the report alleging that some Nigerian villages were attacked by Cameroonian (Ambazonian) seperatists on Sunday. The Director, Army Public Relations, Brig.-Gen. Onyema Nwachukwu, refuted the claim in a statement on Monday in Abuja. Nwachukwu said the Nigerian troops deployed at Danare received information on Sunday morning about the said attack contrary to the ‘misinformation’. He said the troops immediately mobilised to Bashu community, which was allegedly under attack. “On their arrival, it was revealed that Bashu was not under attack and no external incursion was recorded; rather the separatists attacked Obonyi 2 and Njasha, both…
An Ilorin-based legal practitioner, Mr Kehinde Babatunde, has urged Nigerians to beware of fake news and rumour peddlers ahead of the 2023 general elections. Babatunde, who gave the charge in Ilorin on Monday in an interview on Monday, said fake news was dangerous, stressing that it can provoke political crisis. According to him, members of the public are always emotional during elections and can easily get provoked with false information and fake news. “Prepare yourself well to manage your emotions and do not allow any unconfirmed news to disturb you. Rumour peddlers are always happy when they get reactions from…
Some Nigerians in the diaspora, under the aegis of Bola Tinubu Support Organisation, U.K., have commended Sokoto state governor and presidential aspirant of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Aminu Tambuwal’s decision to step down for former Vice President Atiku Abubakar. Tambuwal on Saturday stepped down for Atiku to emerge as the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate for the 2023 polls. The support group, speaking through its U.K. Director and Diaspora Strategies, Mr Ade Adeshina said the Sokoto state governor’s gesture would not go unnoticed in the political development of Nigeria. Adeshina said politics was a group’s interests, loyalty as…