COMPTROLLER OLUSEMIRE KAYODE A is the Controller incharge of Federal Operations Unit (FOU), Zone C with headquarters in Owerri, Imo State, which covers eleven states of the federation. He recently spoke with the roving correspondents of The Powerful Pen in his office on the successes so far recorded and the challenges in the zone under […]
About 12 months after the disastrous tanker crash and inferno that took lives and properties at the Otedola Bridge around Berger bus stop on the along Lagos-Ibadan expressway, Lagosians and road users are eagerly waiting to see the preventive measures put in place by the Governor, Mr. BabajideSanwo-Olu, to prevent reoccurrence. Our correspondent, RANMILOWO OJALUMO, […]
While Customs officers at the various commands across the country are sweating it out to meet revenue targets set for them by government, officials of the Federal Operations Unit (FOU) Zone A, Ikeja, Lagos, are busy stuffing into their private pockets and those of their principals, a minimum of N18 million on daily basis. […]
They expressed shock that the same officer, Comptroller Mohammed, who publicly at a forum in Lagos took the Tin Can Island Port command to the cleaners for a multiplicity of alerts on goods at the area, is having his officers and men enmeshed in such high level of corrupt practices under his very nose. As […]
Nigerian Shippers’ Council (NSC) Executive Secretary, Barr. Hassan Bello, has incurred the wrath of freight forwarders and licensed customs agents for the plan of the Council to limit the number of freighting agencies to what he tagged the “super six”. Bello was quoted to have made the remark recently while fielding questions with a cross-section […]
As Nigerians anxiously wait for the commencement of the African Continental Free Trade Agreement (AfCFTA) the Manufacturers Association of Nigeria (MAN) and the Standards Organisation of Nigeria (SON) are not taking chances to stem its ugly fallouts To this end, both bodies are presently collaborating to ensure that no room is given to any […]
It is no longer news that the poisonous cow skin, popularly called ponmo, now abounds in the country, but what is, is that the ordinarily precious delicacy for many Nigerian homes has its source traced to the Republic of Benin. Our correspondents scooped from the country’s next-door neighbors that there is a syndicate behind the […]
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