The Comptroller-General of Customs, Col. Hameed Ibrahim Ali (Rtd), has been flown abroad for immediate medical attention. Hameed Ali, learnt slumped on Wednesday during prayers in Abuja. A reliable anonymous government source familiar with the development told that the DG was flown abroad for medicals in a customs jet on Wednesday night from Abuja after the incident.
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The Olubadan of Ibadanland, Oba Lekan Balogun, on Friday elevated nine chiefs from the Balogun line, even as he urged them to see their elevation as a call for more service to the ancient city. The occasion, his first official function since his coronation, was held at the Olubadan’s ancestral Ali-Iwo palace in Ibadan. Oba Balogun, who was crowned on March 11, 2022, urged the newly-promoted chiefs to justify the confidence reposed in them by Ibadan people for whom they hold their titles in trust by rededicating themselves to the service of Ibadanland. He said: “I charge you all to…
Nigeria’s billionaire business mogul, Femi Otedola has described the Dangote refinery as a remarkable project which will be a game-changer for the country. Otedola who spoke with so much excitement after the commissioning of the refinery in Ibeju-Lekki, Lagos, expressed how enthused he was, seeing a project that began as far back as 2012, come to fruition. His words, “This is a remarkable project. I’m excited today. Today is the happiest moment in my life to see this project come to reality. This is a project I’ve been visiting with Aliko since 2012″.He added that refining crude oil locally is…
Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning Zainab Ahmed has said that the balance in Nigeria savings account popularly called excess crude account stood at $35,876,615.68 as at the end of March 2022. Stabilisation account has a balance of N31,298,533,315.68 while the balance in the Development of Natural Resources account stood at N55,539,568,212.67 as at March 2022. Zainab made the report to the National Economic Council in Abuja. The balance had fallen drastically by $2billion from the $2.1 billion left by Goodluck Jonathan’s administration. Nigeria’s Excess Crude Account (ECA) balance as of October 2021 was $60, 857,773.43. According to Nigeria Economic…
The United States has said it is placing six Nigerians on its terror list for their involvement in sponsoring terrorism. The Nigerians are Abdurrahman Ado Musa. Salihu Yusuf Adamu, Bashir Ali Yusuf, Muhammed Ibrahim Isa, Ibrahim Ali Alhassan, and Surajo Abubakar Muhammad. This is coming six months after the United Arab Emirates (UAE) placed the six Nigerians on its terror list. In a statement on Friday, the US Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) said it has added the names of the six Nigerians to “the List of Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons, pursuant to…
On Thursday, a Magistrate Court sitting in Oshodi area of Lagos presided over by Magistat Kehinde Ogundare convicted the Lagos socialite, Ms. Ogbulu Chindinma Pearl who distributed fuel as souvenir. The convict was arraigned at the Special Offences (Mobile) Court sitting at Oshodi on the 14th of March, 2022 for the offence of distributing Premium Motor Spirit, PMS, as souvenir during her installation party on the 5th of March, 2022 at Havillah Event Centre, Lagos. She was ordered to pay a fine of N15,000 (fifteen thousand naira) or three months imprisonment on the first count, a fine of N500,000 (five hundred…
Pope Francis presided Friday over a special prayer for Ukraine that harked back to a century-old apocalyptic prophecy about peace and Russia that was sparked by purported visions of the Virgin Mary to three peasant children in Fatima, Portugal, in 1917. Francis invited bishops, priests and ordinary faithful around the world to join him in the consecration prayer, which opened with Francis entering St. Peter’s Basilica before an estimated 3,500 people. During the event, the pope confessed his sins and absolved others in one of the basilica’s confession booths. The service was Francis’ latest effort to rally prayers for an…
Operatives of the Lagos State Taskforce have arrested three members of a fraud syndicate who operate in Ikeja, Egbeda, and Igando parts of Lagos. The three members of the gang, two males and one female, Bola Tony, 38, Eddie Okoro, 48, and Tochi Ikeji, 40, were arrested on Friday at Ikeja UnderBridge when the trio was identified by one of their victims who saw them driving in traffic, and drew the attention of Taskforce officers stationed around the Bridge to them. The victim who declined to have her name on print was accosted by the gang the previous day and…
Even if I have the call of God, it doesn’t mean I can’t have a career. I shouldn’t have to rely on church offerings to survive. Here’s where people have a problem with pastors: they believe that most pastors wait for tithes or offerings. But that’s not me.” When Jay*, a pastor-turned-data-scientist, was in his final year as a computer engineering student at the Oduduwa University in Osun state, Nigeria, he decided his final year project would focus on e-voting in Nigeria. “But that topic wasn’t approved,” he says. The reason, Jay says, was that the lecturers in charge, at…
Mrs. Betty Anyanwu-Akeredolu, the wife of Ondo State Governor, has indicated her intentions to represent Imo East Senatorial District in the Senate. The Ondo first lady disclosed this while kicking off consultation with stakeholders in the Senatorial zone on Thursday at Igolo Abiam Plaza, Wetheral Road, Owerri, the Imo State capital. Anyanwu-Akeredolu expressed pained at the rate the country has deteriorated, adding that she cannot sit by to watch the country continue on her descent to the precipice. She lamented the lack of attention to the youths which, according to her, has forced many of them take into hard drugs…
