The Nigeria Customs Service has given illegal imported private jet owners a 30-day grace to regularize their documents or face grounding. The Spokesperson of NCS, Abdullahi Maiwada disclosed this in a statement on Monday while announcing the extension of the verification exercise for the recovery of import duties on illegally imported private aircraft in the country. This comes after the expiration of the earlier October 14, 2024, verification exercise deadline. NCS said the extension of the verification exercise was aimed at engaging operators who have expressed willingness to regularize their import duties. “The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) wishes to inform…
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Governor Dauda Lawal of Zamfara State has expressed his readiness to conduct credible and acceptable local government elections across the State. The Governor inaugurated Hon. Bala Aliyu Gusau as the chairman of the Zamfara State Independent Electoral Commission, ZASIEC, as part of his administration’s preparations for the local government election. The swearing-in ceremony was held on Monday, during the Zamfara State Executive Council meeting at the council chamber, Government House, Gusau. A statement issued by the Governor’s spokesman, Sulaiman Bala Idris, disclosed that the current leadership of the 14 Sole Administrators will end on October 23, 2024. The statement added…
A chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Dele Momodu has expressed doubts over the capacity of the Bola Tinubu administration to turn things around for the good of the suffering masses. The former presidential candidate and veteran journalist said he does not see the light at the end of the tunnel for Nigeria. Appearing on Channels Television’s Politics Today on Monday, Momodu was speaking on the state of the nation and the current economic realities and the government’s promises to turn things around. DAILY POST reports that the Minister of Budget Planning, Atiku Bagudu had recently said that the…
Five-time winners, Cameroon have booked their place at the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations. This follows a 1-0 win over Kenya on Monday, with Boris Enow scoring the only goal of the encounter in Kampala. 2019 champions Algeria have also qualified for the tournament. The Desert Foxes defeated Togo 1-0 in Lome, thanks to Ramy Bensabaini’s first-half penalty. This brings the number of qualified teams to four. Cameroon and Algeria have joined the hosts Morocco and Burkina Faso as the four teams so far confirmed for the finals. AFCON 2025: Four countries qualify for tournament
The Libya Football Federation, LFF, has vowed to take legal actions against the Nigeria Football Federation. According to the LFF’s statement, this is “to preserve the rights of the Libyan National Team”. It claimed that their delegation was poorly treated in Nigeria. DAILY POST reports that Nigeria and Libya met in the first leg of their two-legged Africa Cup of Nations qualifier on Friday. The Super Eagles managed a 1-0 win over the North African side in Uyo. There was no report of the Arab country filing any sort of case against Nigeria to the Confederation of African Football, CAF.…
Justice Abimbola Awogboro of the Federal High Court sitting in Ilorin has sentenced one Yakubu Aminu to 200 hours community service for carrying out bureau de change businesses without a valid licence. Similarly, a Kwara State High Court presided over by Justice Hammed Gegele also jailed the duo of Abdulalahi Abdulrasaq Omotosho and Akeem Ibrahim Salaudeen for involvement in internet fraud-related crime. The Ilorin Zonal Directorate of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, had on Wednesday October 9, 2024 arraigned the trio before the courts on separate charges. The charge sheet on Yakubu by the anti-graft agency read, “That…
The Management of Kwara State University, Malete, has condemned the protest staged by students of its Study Centre at the Kwara State College of Arabic and Islamic Legal Studies (CAILS). It described the action as unwarranted and promoted by mischief makers whose intention is to undermine the integrity of the scheduled examinations. A statement by the Registrar, Dr Kikeloma Sallee, in Ilorin argued that the claims by the management of Kwara State College of Arabic and Islamic Legal Studies that it was not carried along in the decision to change the examination venue were both baseless and mischievous. “The public…
Nigeria’s petroleum marketers are upbeat they will sell Premium Motor Spirit (Petrol) cheaper than that of Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited if Dangote Refinery begins direct sale of petrol to them. The spokesperson of the Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria, Chinedu Ukadike disclosed this in an exclusive interview with DAILY POST on Monday. Ukadike gave this assurance while giving an update on petroleum marketers’ plans to directly purchase petrol from Dangote Refinery. This comes days after the Federal Government through the Minister of Finance and Chairman of the Implementation Committee on Naira-for-crude sale to domestic refineries, Wale Edun confirmed…
Good morning! Here is today’s summary from Nigerian Newspapers: 1. The New Nigeria Peoples Party, NNPP, in Kano on Monday announced the suspension of the Secretary to the Kano State Government (SSG), Abdullahi Baffa Bichi, and the Commissioner for Transportation, Muhammad Diggol. The State party Chairman, Hashim Sulaiman Dungurawa, confirmed this to journalists. 2. The Confederation of African Football (CAF) has launched an investigation into the disturbing scenes at Al Abraq International Airport in Libya, where the Nigerian Super Eagles were detained. In an official statement released on Monday, October 14, by CAF’s communications department, the organization vowed to take…
The Nigeria Football Federation, NFF, has detailed the incident in Libya. The football federation made a 20-Point of a 20-hour ordeal in the north African country. DAILY POST reports that Libya had in a statement on Monday evening vowed to take legal actions against the Nigeria Football Federation for pulling the Super Eagles out of the Africa Cup of Nations qualifier. And now, Dr Ademola Olajire, the NFF’s Director of Communications, has provided a point-by-point account of how the qualifying match was relegated to a fiasco by Libyan federal authorities and Football Federation. NFF’s detailed 20-points in full: “The chartered…