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September 10, 2025 No Responses

Alleged Sidelining, Marginalization Of Igbos In CGC’s Tenure Extension: Setting The Record Straight

By Okey IBEKE – President Bola Ahmed Tinubu had on July 30, 2025, extended by one year, the tenure of the Comptroller-General of Nigeria Customs Service, Adewale Bashiru Adeniyi, MFR, which would have expired on August 31, 2025.According to a...

September 10, 2025 No Responses

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Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu (Right), on Tuesday, received the Director-General and CEO of the National Identity Management Commission (NIMC), Engr. (Dr.) Abisoye Coker-Odusote, on courtesy visit.In a post on his social media handle, the Governor s...

September 10, 2025 No Responses

Boat Mishaps: NIWA Reiterates Commitment To Safer Waterways

The National Inland Waterways Authority (NIWA), on Tuesday in Abuja, explained new measures to further strengthen safety and enforcement across Nigeria’s inland waterways.Briefing Journalists, the Managing Director, Mr. Bola Oyebamiji, reaffirmed the Authori...

September 9, 2025 No Responses

TUC Threatens Nationwide Strike

The Trade Union Congress of Nigeria (TUC) has threatened to embark on a nationwide strike if the Federal Government fails to withdraw its proposed five per cent tax on petroleum products.Mr Festus Osifo, TUC President General, said this in a...

September 9, 2025 No Responses

NCDMB: Training Of Cadets To Boosts Nigeria’s Maritime Sector

Capacity building for Nigeria’s maritime sector has received a boost in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, as 39 graduates conclude preliminary processes for cadetship under a Nigerian Content-Human Capacity Development NC-HCD programme of Chevron Nigeria Limited ...

September 8, 2025 No Responses

FG Urges NUPENG To Shelve Strike

The Federal Government has called on the National Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG) to reconsider its decision to initiate a nationwide strike starting Monday, September 8, 2025.The dispute centres around the Dangote Group’s policy that all...

September 7, 2025 No Responses

NSCDC Recovers Railway Slippers, Transformer Cables

The Bauchi State Command of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) has intercepted a Peugeot J5 vehicle loaded with vandalised railway slippers.The command also arrested two suspects for allegedly vandalising a transformer.The command’s spokesm...

September 7, 2025 No Responses

Dangote Trucks: IPMAN Backs NUPENG, To Shut Down Operations

The Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria (IPMAN), Western Zone is to shut down operations from Monday, September 8, 2025 to protest what it described as attempts to monopolise the downstream sector.The resolution was reached on Saturday at a ...

September 6, 2025 No Responses

NDLEA Arrests 26 Suspects In Edo

THE National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), Edo Command, has arrested 26 suspected drug traffickers and seized about 41,410.53kg of narcotics.Mr Mitchell Ofoyeju, state Commander of the agency disclosed this on Friday in Benin City while presenting the m...

September 6, 2025 No Responses

Comptroller Salamatu Resumes At Port Harcourt Customs Area 1

COMPTROLLER Salamatu Atuluku has assumed the leadership position of the Nigeria Customs Service Area 1, Port Harcourt, replacing Comptroller YM Hashim, who has been redeployed to import and Export unit of the Nigeria Customs Service Headquarters in Abuja.In an...

September 6, 2025 No Responses

Stock Market Investors Trade N90.3b Equities In Four Days

Stock market investors traded 3.117 billion shares worth N90.295 billion in 118,018 transactions on the Exchange during the week just ended.This compares with 3.199 billion shares valued at N85.399 billion exchanged last week in 142,477 deals.Consequently, the...

September 5, 2025 No Responses

Anxiety Over New Ebola Outbreak

THE government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) on Thursday declared a new outbreak of Ebola in the central province of Kasai, the country’s 16th since 1976.The development is generating anxiety within and outside the country.Health Minister Rog...

September 5, 2025 No Responses

AIG At FRSC Zonal Command, Harp On Inter-Agency Collaboration

The Assistant Inspector General (AIG) of Police, Zone 2, Lagos, Adegoke Fayoade, has pledged to boost inter-agency collaboration between the Nigeria Police Force and the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) within Lagos and Ogun states.He made the pledge when he.....

September 4, 2025 9 Responses

TotalEnergies Awards Two Offshore Exploration Permits

TOTALENERGIES (80%, operator), together with its partner South Atlantic Petroleum (20%), have signed the Production Sharing Contract (PSC) for the PPL 2000 and PPL 2001 exploration licenses offshore Nigeria, which were awarded following the 2024 Exploration Ro...