Author: Obong Akpaekong

Nigeria Customs Service says the country has implemented at least 70 per cent of the requirements of the ECOWAS Common External Tariff (CET). Hameed Ali, Comptroller-General of Nigeria Custom Service stated this at the  opening a meeting of ECOWAS Directors-General of Customs in Abuja, Nigeria’s federal capital city. It is said that the regional economic group’s adoption of the common tariff implies that the same customs duties, import quotas, preferences or other non-tariff barriers to trade apply to all goods entering the area, regardless of which country within the area they are entering. CET came into effect in January 2015.…

One of the most trying periods in the life of Lady Apostle Helen Ukpabio, founder of Liberty Gospel Church with headquarters in Calabar and a Nollywood film producer, was the seven years of 2007 to 2013, when the social media became awash with insults, abuses and curses on the woman of God for allegedly branding some children in Akwa Ibom State witch and maiming, torturing and even killing some of them brought by their parents to her church for deliverance. Peddling the story was the United Kingdom-registered Stepping Stones Nigeria, SSN, in partnership with an Esit Eket, Akwa Ibom State-based…