Author: Saint Augustine

The Journalists International Forum for Migration (JIFORM), with over 300 journalists spread across the continents covering migration has applauded the Government of Sierra Leone for lifting the ban on labour migration thereby allowing her citizens to legally seek decent jobs abroad. The country had on Wednesday, 21st April, 2021, lifted the ban on labour migration to allow overseas recruitment agencies to recruit Sierra Leoneans into decent jobs through the country’s local recruitment agencies. Ajibola Abayomi, President of JIFORM in a statement on Sunday promised to mobilize its machinery to support the process while congratulating HE Princess. A. K Ocansey, a…

…Meets Area Commanders, DPOs, others over attacks on security operatives, facilities The Commissioner of Police, Anambra State Police, CP Monday Bala Kuryas, yesterday, ordered Police officers in the State to protect themselves and resist any form of attack on security personnel and critical infrastructure anywhere in the State. The CP gave this directive in a lecture held with his management team, Area Commanders, Divisional Police Officers and other heads of tactical operational units in the command. He charged the officers to be undeterred by the recent unfortunate incidents of attacks on their colleagues and facility but to remain resolute in…

Olasupo Babatunde Ajani, an Assistant Inspector General of Police (AIG) has assumed duty as AIG Zone 11, Oshogbo. The Zone comprises Oyo and Osun State Police commands. Ajani resumed effectively on Wednesday 21st April, 2021. A statement signed by SP Ayeni Benjamin, Zonal Police Public Relations Officer and made available to the National Association of Online Security Reporters (NAOSRE) stated that Ajani is a graduate of Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife where he studied Education and obtained Bachelor of Art, Education with Second Class Upper Division in 1982. He also obtained Masters in Public Administration in 1998 from the University of…

The International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) through its Youth in Agribusiness office has extended invitation to the general public to an Open Day organized by the Empowering Novel Agribusiness Led Employment, one of the compacts of Technologies for African Agricultural Transformation (ENABLE-TAAT). The event which is scheduled to hold at the Oyo State-IITA Youth Agribusiness Park Centre, Awe will commence at 9.00am prompt. The event will feature display and sale of quality planting materials, lectures and discussions on new agricultural technologies and farming systems, exhibition and sale of various agricultural products, business models and market linkages and a tour…

…Directs deployment of “fiercest show of legitimate force against perpetrators” President Muhammadu Buhari, on Saturday strongly condemned the killing of three of the students kidnapped at Greenfield University, Kaduna State. The President described the students as bright youngsters who were cut down by evil people in their prime. “My thoughts are with their families in this time of grief. May their souls rest in peace,” said the President. He extended his condolences and that of the federal government to the relatives, associates of the murdered students and the Kaduna State government. On the recurring incidents of kidnappings and killings in…

Contrary to the position of the Minister of State Labour and Employment, Festus Keyamo (SAN) and the Chairman, Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs, Senator Adamu Mohammad Bulkachuwa on some existing laws on migration matters in Nigeria, the Journalists International Forum for Migration (JIFORM), has called for effective legislation to aid migration and its benefits to the country. Speaking in Calabar at the Cross River State Migration Summit with the theme, “Utilizing The Gains Of Migration To Advance Economic Development In Nigeria”, on April 22, 2021, Ajibola Abayomi, the President of JIFORM comprising over 300 journalists across the continents argued that…

The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has made the production of vehicle log book a mandatory requirement for clearance of imported used vehicles out of the ports. This is contained in a circular dated 23 April, 2021 and signed by TM Isa, Deputy Comptroller General of Customs in charge of Tariff and Trade for the Comptroller General of Customs. The circular noted that directive was in consonance with the provisions of the Customs and Excise Notice No. 30 of 6th December, 1971. It however added that a grace period of 90 days effective from the date of the circular was allowed…

The Standards Organisation of Nigeria (SON) has restated its commitment to safeguarding lives in the country, restating the importance of its presence at the ports. The agency made the reiteration at an enforcement exercise and seizure of substandard products worth about N600 million at a warehouse located in a remote area in Ogun State. The Director General, Mallam Farouk Salim used the opportunity to lament the continued absence of the SON at the nation’s ports, saying that the fight against substandard goods was best fought at the points of entry. The Director General said the seizure was not punitive but…

The Standards Organization of Nigeria (SON) has said that anybody who is calling for the scrapping of the Standards Organization of Nigeria Conformity Assessment Programme (SONCAP) is a mischief maker. The Deputy Director, Inspectorate and Compliance Directorate (ICD), Engr. Enebi Onucheyo who stated this in an interview with our correspondent in Lagos on Friday asked those who were pushing for scrapping of SONCAP to come up with an alternative. Onucheyo challenged stakeholders to come up with any product that came into this country with SONCAP certificate and went through SONCAP processes that was substandard. His words, “Anybody who is calling…

The Registrar, Council for the Regulation of Freight Forwarding in Nigeria (CRFFN), Barr. Samuel Nwakohu has assured the freight forwarders of a more rewarding profession in the days ahead. Nwakohu who gave this assurance while reacting to comments during the just concluded workshop on digitization of cargo import and export service and business integrity in the Nigerian maritime industry, recalled that he had done two years in office adding that “When I came in, I told you that there is a new kid on the floor, this kid is result oriented.” He however pointed out that his second year in…