By Femi Anamelechi Abdulrasheed Bawa, the former chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), said Fuel subsidy in Nigeria is fraudulent. Bawa pointed this out in a groundbreaking new book titled :‘The Shadow of Loot & Losses: Uncovering Nigeria’s Petroleum Subsidy Fraud’. This powerful exposé provides the most authoritative account yet of Nigeria’s…
By Femi Anamelechi The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Federal Operations Unit (FOU) Zone ‘A’, has pledged to sustain its fight against smuggling and economic sabotage, following a series of seizures valued at over ₦1.28 billion within two weeks. The Comptroller of the Unit, Mohammed Shuaibu, made this declaration during a press briefing held at the…
By Femi Anamelechi The Enugu State Regulatory Commission (EERC), has issued an instruction to MainPower Electricity Distribution Company, formerly Enugu Electricity Distribution Company, EEDC, to refund over 20,000 estimated customers over “wrongful billing” by the company. This was contained in a public notice issued by EERC on Monday where the Commission said that its order…
By Femi Anamelechi Uche Nwosu, the President of Ugwumba Leadership Center has gifted N1,OOO,OOO (One million Naira) to Immigration Officer Prince Orji Ugochukwu Okeosisi Ugo for his gallantry and competence.The N1,OOO,OOO was sent to Maria Ude Nwachi, and Officer Ugochukwu has been fully credited. He was filled with gratitude and appreciation for the gift. Uche…
By Femi Anamelechi The Nigeria Custom Service has continued to intensify its operation against anti-smuggling across the Nigeria border towns and Villages with seizures of 1,577 (25 litres) kegs of PMS worth Thirty-nine Million Four Hundred and Twenty-five Thousand Naira only (₦39,425,000.00).The Comptroller-General of Customs, CGC Adewale Adeniyi MFR, represented by the National Coordinator of…
By Femi Anamelechi The South-East Zone of the Electricity Consumers Association of Nigeria (ECAN) has accused an Aba-based legal practitioner, Larry Iroka, of playing to the gallery in guiding his client, Aba Electricity Consumers Forum, on clear and decided legal matters. The aggrieved Customers Association made this public at Awka, Anambra State, after its monthly…
By Femi Anamelechi The Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) have sealed off the headquarters of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) located in the Wuse district of Abuja.The sealing of the building occurred at approximately 2:05 PM on Monday. The FCTA officials were said to have arrived at the site and instructed the security guard to…
By Femi Anamelechi No fewer than six million pills of opioids namely: tamol 225mg, tapentadol 225mg and carisoprodol 225mg as well as 332,000 bottles of codeine-based cough syrup with a combined street value of Six Billion Five Hundred and Twenty-Four Million Naira (N6,524,000,000.00) have been intercepted by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency…
The Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway was originally conceived to connect Lagos, Ogun, Ondo, Delta, Rivers, Bayelsa, Akwa Ibom, and Cross Rivers States. In other words, the 700-kilometre road, whose contract was awarded at $11 billion and remains the biggest infrastructure project by the Bola Tinubu administration, was meant to connect two of the country’s three geopolitical…
By Femi Anamelechi The Central Bank of Nigeria CBN, has told the general public including the local and global banking community that the country’s financial sector is as solid and stable as ever and therefore urged them to ignore rumours and speculations to the contrary. The acting Director, Corporate Communications, Mrs. Hakama Sidi Ali in…
