By Femi Anamelechi The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has launched a new digital verification platform designed to curb vehicle smuggling, enhance transparency, and strengthen accountability in the automobile importation process.The initiative, known as the Customs Verification Management System (CVMS), was officially unveiled on Monday, 20 October 2025, at the NCS Headquarters in Abuja by the…
By Femi Anamelechi Electricity consumers in the Southeast geopolitical zone have lauded Aba Power Electricity Ltd for supplying people and businesses in the Aba Ring-fenced Area of Abia State uninterrupted power in the last 45 days.Aba Power provides electricity to nine of the 17 local government areas (LGAs) in Abia State known as the Aba…
By Prof. Bart Nnaji, CON, NNOM, FAS, FAEng. Chairman, Geometric Power Group Education represents progress. The most fundamental difference between the developed nations and the developing ones is the level and quality of education. A leading African American civil rights activist, Ella J. Baker (1903-1986), famously quipped, “show the light, and the people will find…
By Femi Anamelechi The Comptroller-General of Nigeria Custom Service Adewale Adeniyi, has promised to build stronger collaboration with the Nigerian Communications Commission in the bid to improve revenue generation, enhance national security, and safeguard public safety through tighter monitoring of imported communication equipments. Adewale Adeniyi Bashir (MFR) disclosed this on Tuesday 30 September, 2025, when…
By Femi Anamelechi The Aba Independent Power Project, developed by Geometric Power, Nigeria’s only integrated electric power company has been described as world class by Mr. Richard Mills who is the American Ambassador to Nigeria. He made known his assessment of Geometric Power after he led a team of top American embassy officials on a…
By Femi Anamelechi The APC led government of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has secured $238m support to strengthen Nigeria’s national power grid, following high-level engagements led by Minister of Power, Adebayo Adelabu, at the Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD) in Japan. The $238 million JICA loan, complemented by Nigeria’s N19 billion counterpart funding,…
By Femi Anamelechi The management of Aba Power has declared a renewed and uncompromising commitment to tackling the growing menace of the electricity infrastructure vandalism across its network.Speaking during a strategic briefing with journalists and technical staff in Aba, the Managing Director of Aba Power, Barr. Ugochukwu Opiegbe, decried the rising wave of vandalism, particularly…
The Secretary General of Association of Nigerian Aviation Professionals (ANAP), Comrade Abdulrasaq Saidu, recently pointed that, there is shortage of manpower in some critical areas in the aviation sector, and therefore called for urgent attention by the authorities concerned to address the imbalance.The doyen of aviation unionism reinstated his earlier stance that aviation is a…
By Femi Anamelechi Aba Power Electric Ltd has been commented as the only electricity distribution company (DisCo) in Nigeria that has not been penalized for any form of infraction. This disclosure was made today in Awka, Anambra State, by the Nigerian Electricity Consumers Association (NECA), Southeast zone, following its monthly meeting at Trigpoint Hotel, Nibo.“We…
By C. Don Adinuba With the burial rites of Professor Ernest Ugo starting on Tuesday, July 22, at the Amadeo Events Centre in Enugu, the curtain is almost drawn on one of Nigeria’s most humane and selfless citizens ever. Ugo grabbed national headlines when he informed a scientific conference of homeopathic doctors of the successful…
