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The Rights Enforcement and Public Law Centre (REPLACE) and Legal Aid Council with support from British Council’s Rule of Law and Anti-Corruption (RoLAC) program, in collaboration with The Elixir Trust Foundation (ETF) and NOPRIN Foundation held a community awareness and free legal aid clinic for vulnerable persons in Ijaiye-Ogba, Lagos State. The event is in furtherance of implementing a donor funded project “Improving Access to Legal Advice and Services for Vulnerable Persons in Nigeria”, under the Police Duty Solicitors Scheme (PDSS). The programme held on Saturday, 3rd July, 2021, at the palace of the Baale (Traditional Chief) of Ijaiye-Ogba community…

…Exercise bow to end on 20th July, 2021          The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has announced the extension of the verification of privately owned aircrafts in the country by fourteen (14) days, the Customs Public Relations Officer, Comptroller Joseph Attah has said. Recall that on 31st May, 2021, the Service announced its intention to verify all Privately Owned Aircrafts in Nigeria between 7th June and 6th July, 2021. Speaking while presenting the half year report of the Service to newsmen in Abuja yesterday, Attah noted that “at the end of the verification period, a total number of fifty-eight (58) private aircrafts…

…Records 2,333 seizures worth over N4bn The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has generated the sum of N1,003,752,951,735.55 as against the N713,548,395,834.93 it generated in the corresponding period in 2020 with a positive difference of N290,204,555,900.62. The Customs Public Relations Officer, Mr. Joseph Attah who gave this hint while presenting the Service’s half year report in Abuja on Thursday disclosed that hitting the Trillion-Naira mark within 6 months was unprecedented in the Service. Attah noted that the feat was as a result of resolute pursuit of what was right and willingness to adapt to changes brought about by global health challenges…

…As Hon. Badru laments absence of SON at seaports The Standards Organisation of Nigeria (SON) has urged the National Assembly to support its quest to establish more laboratories in the country to expand its testing capacity. Malam Farouk Salim, the Director-General, SON, made the appeal on Thursday in Lagos, on the second day of a facility tour and oversight function by some federal lawmakers visiting the agency. Salim said the call for more laboratories became pertinent to enable the SON perform its function maximally, stressing that the agency was inundated with so many goods to certify, monitor and test. He…

Police Service Commission has promoted officers to different ranks across cadres. The Commission also approved the promotion of twenty four Commissioners of Police to the next rank of Assistant Inspectors General of Police. The Commission however declined the promotion of CP Ibrahim Magu, former acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). This is contained in a statement signed by Ikechukwu Ani, Head, Press and Public Relations of the Commission and made available to NAOSRE. According to the statement, the decisions were the highpoints of the Commission’s 12th Plenary Meeting held on Tuesday and Wednesday, 6th and 7th…

…Says building capacity to create wealth and jobs should be prioritized The Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry (LCCI) has noted with serious concerns the worsening security situation in the country even as it also said that it is scary that banditry attacks, abduction, herders-farmers conflict, vandalism and insurgency have become recurring incidences in Nigeria. Speaking in an address on the state of the nation’s economy, the President, LCCI, Mrs. Toki Mabogunje observed that the impact of this crisis on the Nigerian economy remained profound and multi-dimensional adding that the crisis had crippled lots of private and public investments across…

SIFAX Group, one of Nigeria’s leading business conglomerates with interest in Maritime, Aviation, Haulage & Logistics, Oil & Gas, Hospitality and Finance, has provided financial support to aid the preparations of  two Nigerian athletes competing at the forthcoming Tokyo Olympics. The athletes are table tennis stars, 7-time Olympian, Olufunke Oshonaike and Aruna Quadri. The sum of $10,000 was given to each of them as support funds. The support was provided under the #AdoptAnAthlete programme, an initiative of the Federal Ministry of Youth & Sports Development to canvass support from the private sector for athletes representing the country at the 2020…

…Says CBN’s Export Proceed Policy threatens sustainability of export business in Nigeria The Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry (LCCI) has advocated for urgent reformation of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) through executive orders or legislative actions to enable it discharge its trade facilitation functions effectively. The President of LCCI, Mrs. Toki Mabogunje who made this call during her address on the state of the economy organized by the chamber in Lagos on Tuesday, noted that despite the interventions and steps taken by the governments (Federal and Lagos State), the burdensome process of moving goods from the ports and extortions…

…Rakes in N366 billion in six months …Seizes 46 containers …Collects N78.4 billion in June 2021 The Apapa command of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has said that it has facilitated the export of goods worth N272.3 billion through the Apapa port in the first six months of 2021. The Customs Area Controller, Apapa Customs command, Comptroller Yusuf Malanta Ibrahim who stated this in a press briefing in Lagos yesterday stated that the exports included Agricultural goods such as sesame seed, ginger, hibiscus flower and other mineral resources. Ibrahim disclosed that the total tonnage of the said export stood at…

In continuation of the fight against smuggling, the Federal Operations Unit (FOU), Zone B Kaduna under the leadership of Comptroller Al-Bashir Hamisu has presented a record of its activities for June 2021. Briefing newsmen in his office at Kaduna on Tuesday, Comptroller Hamisu  presented items worth one hundred and ninety-eight million, one hundred and twenty-six thousand, six hundred and twenty-four naira, ninety-five kobo (N198,126,624.95) intercepted by officers of Unit at various locations within the Zone. Prominent among the items seized were 1,075 packs of tramadol, 314 parcels of cannabis (Indian hemp), 333 cartons of foreign Al Fakher Magic Love also…