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The Nigeria Customs Service, Friday, said it generated N1.2 trillion as revenue for the 2018 fiscal period. In a statement signed by its Public Relations Officer, Mr Joseph Attah, the service said the N1.2 trillion was an increase of N164.89 billion over the 2017 collection of N1.03 trillion. The Comptroller-General of Customs, Col. Hameed Ali (retd.), attributed the revenue collected to the various reforms implemented by the service. He said the reforms were anchored on the dogged pursuit of what was right rather than being populist by compromising national interest on the altar of individual or group’s interests. Ali said…

The clerk and the cashier of Akwa Ibom State House of Assembly are said to be in police custody. The clerk is Mandu Umoren, while the cashier is Monday Akpan. The two, according to an official of the state assembly, have been detained at the state police headquarters, Ikot Akpan Abia, in Uyo local government area since 9 a.m. on Friday when they had honoured police invitation. PREMIUM TIMES reports that they were invited for questioning over a petition from five lawmakers who were sacked from the assembly in Ninemebr lst eyar for defecting from the Peoples Democatic Party (PDP)…

A total of 242,455 persons applied for the position of constables in the on-going Nigeria Police Force (NPF) recruitment exercise. Of the figure, 212,716 of the applicants are males while 29,694 are females. Already, President Muhammadu Buhari approved 10,000 positions for constable, though the force has collected 232,455 in excess. The acting spokesperson of the Police Service Commission (PSC), Aaron Kaase, announced the number collected by the force on Thursday, January 3, 2019. With the submission of applications set to end on January 11, Niger State has the highest number of applications with 15,633, followed by Kano (15,079), Katsina (14,582),…

The Nigeria Police Force has confirmed that Senator Dino Melaye has surrendered to it after a seven-day siege on his Abuja residence by the personnel of the force. Personnel of the force had laid a siege to the Abuja residence of Melaye to effect his arrest over a case of culpable homicide. Melaye and his gang were accused of shooting a police officer, Sgt. Danjuma Saliu, attached to 37 Police Mobile Force (PMF), while on duty in Aiyetoro Gbede, Mopa Road in Kogi. The Force spokesman, acting DCP Jimoh Moshood, who confirmed the development to NAN on Friday in Abuja,…

Juventus’ Cristiano Ronaldo, Thursday, won the Best Player and Best Goal of 2018 at the Globe Soccer Awards held in Dubai. Ronaldo’s stunning overhead goal for Real Madrid against current club Juventus wins UEFA’s goal of the season, AFP reports. He won the best goal of the year award for his overhead kick against his current club, while he was at Real Madrid, reports Marca. It was also reported that Atletico Madrid had an evening to remember, as it was voted the Best Club of the Year. One of the other top awards was for the Coach of the Year, and this…

Former US president, Barack Obama has debuted on musical charts at number 22 on the Billboard Hot R&B Songs chart this week. Barack Obama on Billboard R&B chart Obama lands on the ranking that lasts till January 5 with a song called “One Last Time (44 Remix). According to Billboard, Obama is listed as a featured artist on the “Hamilton” song, which also features Christopher Jackson and gospel musician BeBe Winans. The former US president delivered George Washington’s farewell address on the track which is a part of a series of “Hamildrops” aimed to raise money for multiple nonprofits. The…

Brutal witch-hunts and lynchings have plunged parts of Papua New Guinea’s highlands into a state of terror, as fearful tribes blame dark forces for their rapidly changing world. Mother-of-two Rachel showed the scars from wounds inflicted on her in April 2017 when she was accused of sorcery and witchcraft and tortured with hot machetes, spades and rods in Paua New Guinea. In one particularly horrifying incident, an elderly woman writhed and pleaded hysterically as she was mercilessly beaten, raped and tortured on a hut floor, before her naked body – bloodied and nearly lifeless- was dragged outside, where a village…

The Peoples Democratic Party says it has rejected the appointment of Mrs. Amina Zakari, as the Chairperson of INEC Advisory Committee and Presidential Election Collation Centre Committee. The main opposition party said via a statement signed by Kola Ologbondiyan, Director, Media & Publicity, PDP Presidential Campaign Organisation, it has complained to Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, the INEC Chairman that Zakari is a niece of President Muhammadu Buhari. Amina Zakari, a national commissioner at the Independent and National Electoral Commission (INEC), Thursday, was appointed to head the collation centre of the elections. Speaking during the inauguration, Yakubu said Zakari was appointed to head…

The maiden visit of Muhammadu Buhari as Nigeria’s president to Akwa Ibom State on Friday, December 28, 2018 for the flag-off ceremony of the All Progressives Congress, APC, South South campaign rally did not come without inconceivable hurdles, Straightnews has exclusively learnt. As critics and cynics were still in shock how a high profile visitor and President’s wife- Her Excellency, Aisha Buhari- was brought to the state for Senator Godswill Akpabio’s empowerment programme, the news of Buhari’s visit dropped like a thunderbolt in the ears of many. “No sooner had the news seeped out than some paid agents, blackmailers and…

Senator Dino Melaye’s prayer to remove police blockade from his residence met a brickwall as a Federal High Court, in Abuja, refused to grant the ex-parte application. Melaye approached the court through his lawyer, Nkem Okoro of the Mike Ozekhome (SAN) chambers, for the enforcement of his fundamental human rights as the police have laid siege in his residence for seven days now. The court had subsequently fixed Thursday for the hearing of the ex-parte application filed together with the enforcement of his fundamental human rights’ suit. In the ex-parte application, Melaye prayed the court for an interim order of…