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The Nati onal Drug Law Enforcement Agency, (NDLEA) has busted and dismantled two laboratories in Lagos and Anambra state where dangerous illicit drug, crystal methamphetamine, called Mkpuru Mmiri in local parlance, were produced. The Chairman/Chief Executive of NDLEA, Brig. Gen. Buba Marwa (Rtd) disclosed this on Tuesday, 2nd August 2022 while addressing the media in Abuja. According to a press release by Femi Babafemi, Director, Media and Advocacy, NDLEA Headquarters, on Tuesday the Chairman of the agency said, "while efforts in the past seven months against the cartel behind the Methamphetamine scourge have led to the arrest of four kingpins and a cook; now, we have added two barons and another cook; This no doubt is a loud statement to those involved in the criminal illicit drug trade that it’s time for them to quit or risk losing it all; that is losing their freedom, investment and assets acquired through proceeds from the illegal business". Continuing,  “I am pleased to ...

The Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the National Institute of Transport Technology (NITT), Zaria, on research and training towards enhancing maritime safety and security in Nigeria. According to a press release signed by  Osagie Edward, Assistant Director, Public Relations, NIMASA, T he Director General NIMASA, Dr Bashir Jamoh and his NITT counterpart, Dr. Bayero Salih Farah signed the MoU  over the weekend in Zaria. The MOU, w hich is a follow up on earlier agreements reached between both Agencies of government in their quest to further domesticate specialized training programmes at management cadre in the maritime sector   is hinged on research and training and aimed at  enhanc ing  local content and boosting the quality assurance of the institute.  Dr. Jamoh, who described the MoU as a mutually beneficial partnership aimed at supporting the core mandate of the NITT and also i...

The C omptroller General of Customs Strike Force Team, Zone ‘A’, has within the first half of year 2022 made seizures with Duty Paid Value of Seven Billion, Four Hundred and Thirty Two Million, Five hundred and ninety two Thousand, Seventy Five naira. The seizures included 8,000 bags of foreign parboiled rice of 50kg each, equivalent to 13 trucks, 1x40ft container of Tramadol, Sildenafil citrate, 1613 bottles of 100ml Codeine, 1079 bales of secondhand clothing, 3,695 pieces of used tyres, 966 slabs of Donkey skin, 77,760 pairs of new Ladies shoes, 5,250 pairs of used shoes and 197 logs of wood. Disclosing this at a press briefing in Lagos recently, the Coordinator of  Strike Force in the zone, Deputy Comptroller Muhammad Sani Yusuf noted that the sum of Three Billion, One Hundred and Forty Million, Seven Hundred and Fifty Eight Thousand, Five Hundred and Ninety Nine Naira (N3,140,758,599) was recovered through issuance of demand notices; this was done sequel to our discoveries of s...

  The Governing Board of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) has approved the appointment of three new Directors for the agency, they are, Mr. Otonye Obom, Captain Umoren Sunday Michael, and Mr. Kazir Abubakar Musa. The  Directors were promoted along with Eighteen Deputy Directors and Twenty Assistant Directors.  Four hundred and  Thirty-One  other staff were elevated to their next grade levels. According to a press statement signed by Osagie Edward, Assistant Director, Public Relations this portion exercise is  the third under the Dr Jamoh  led management since he assumed office in March 2020 was ratified by the governing board of the agency during a meeting at the NIMASA headquarters in Lagos. While congratulating the new appointees and the newly promoted staff, the Director General of NIMASA, Dr. Bashir Jamoh,  charged them to remain committed to the Agency’s vision of making Nigeria great through sustainab...

L-R  Provost, College of Postgraduate Studies, Babcock University; Professor Ayandiji Aina, Executive Director, SIFAX Group Bode Ojeniyi, President/Vice Chancellor, Babcock University; Professor Ademola Tayo, Dr. Abimbola Abolarinwa, Surgery Department, Lagos State University Teaching Hospital/ first female Urologist in Nigeria and Ademola Adebise, Managing Director/CEO, Wema Bank at an interactive session  The Chairman of the SIFAX Group, Dr. Taiwo Afolabi has identified courage, self-belief, determination and solution-oriented mindset as some of the factors that are crucial for achieving success in life. Speaking at an interactive session with the 2022 graduating students of Babcock University in Ilishan Remo, Ogun State, recently, Afolabi said that anyone that lacks all these qualities might be far from achieving success. Represented at the occasion by the Group Executive Director of Sifax Group, Mr. Bode Ojeniyi, the Group Chairman admonished the students not to be deterre...

Following a report by an online medium, PointBlank of Monday July 25 2022 which accused the Nigerian Ports Authority of operating and looting two secret account outside Nigeria, the management has decided to set the records straight and to disabuse the minds of the public on the intention of the report. The Authority, through a press statement signed by  Ibrahim Nasiru, General Manager, Corporate and strategic communications  has agreed that NPA operates two dollar account but got approval from the Federal Government through the Office of Accountant General of the Federation and run in accordance with agreed official safeguards emplaced by the Office of the Accountant General through the CBN and the TSA policy of the Federal government of Nigeria against possible infractions and looting.  The statement reads, "While the NPA management’s initial disposition was to dismiss the news report with a wave of the hand, the compelling need to set the records straight and disa...

The G overning Board of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA), has approved and ratified the promotion of 519 (five hundred and nineteen) members of staff of the agency for year 2022. The Director General of NIMASA, Dr Bashir Jamoh while congratulating the promoted staff urged them to see the promotion as a moral booster in order to rededicate themselves to the delivery of the agency's core mandates. “Congratulations to the 519 staff of the Agency whose promotions have just been ratified/approved by the NIMASA Governing Board; “It is my expectation that this development will serve as a morale booster as you collectively rededicate yourselves to the delivery of our core mandates” he stated

The TinCan Island Command of the Nigeria Customs Service has generated N274.32 billion between January and June 2022, which represents a 27.50 percent increase when compared with N229.32 billion collected in the corresponding period of 2021. The Command’s Area Controller, Comptroller kunle Oloyede disclosed this on Friday while briefing Journalists on activities of the command January to June 2022. Within the period under review, Compt. Oloyede revealed that enforcement and anti –smuggling activities of the command received a boost under his supervision resulting in seizures, arrests and detentions of offending imports with a Duty Paid Value of the total seizures amounted N1, 301,901,685.12. Breakdown of the seizures include 145kg of Colorado, concealed in two units of Ridgeline trucks and two units of Toyota Corolla vehicles, 206,000 pieces of machetes, 640 bales of used clothes, 236,500 pieces of used shoes and 62,500 pieces of new lady’s shoes. Others are 1,670,400 pieces of chloroq...

T he Nigerian Shippers' Council, (NSC) has been reaffirmed as the only  Ports Economic Regulator in the country.  The Permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry of Transportation, Dr Magdalene Ajani,  on Friday in Lagos,  made this pronouncement at the sensitisation seminar jointly organised by the Federal Ministry of Transport and the Nigerian Shippers Council with the theme: “Promoting Competitiveness in the Maritime Industry: The Mandate of Nigerian Shippers’ Council". She noted that the Federal Government in 2015 declared the council as the port economic regulator. Ajani said that as the port economic regulator, NSC was saddled with the responsibility to institute effective regulation at ports, working with other government agencies. She, however, enjoined all stakeholders in the maritime industry to give the council the needed cooperation and support. “I want us to note that while the shippers council is the port economic regulator, the Nigerian Ports Autho...

The Apapa Area Command of the Nigeria Customs Service on Friday announced the interception of a 20 foot container  imported from Pakistan,  l oaded with 150 Cartons of Tramadol which is  valued at N6 billion.   The Customs Area Controller of the Command, Comptroller Yusuf Ibrahim Malanta while speaking to Journalists on the seizure said the drugs were concealed carefully with towels but through a  Forensic Manifest Management System and the vigilance of customs officers of the command, the drugs  were detected. Giving a breakdown of the seizure while handing it over to the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) Malanta said, “On the authority of the Comptroller General of the Nigeria Customs Service, Col. Hameed Ibrahim Ali (Rtd), I, Comptroller MI Yusuf, Customs Area Controller, Apapa Command do hereby handover 1x20ft container No. PCIU 0183241 laden with eighty-one (81) cartons of 250mg and sixty-nine (69) cartons of 225mg of tramadol tablets (Each ...