Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose, has said that he will “tone down” his criticism of President Muhammadu Buhari “due to the intervention” of Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola. Fashola visited Ekiti on Thursday to inspect some projects.During his visit, Fayose promised to exercise patience with Buhari’s administration and admitted that all developmental projects in the State could ...

Search for the body of the medical doctor who jumped into the Adeniji Adele end of the Lagos Lagoon on Sunday is yet to yield fruitful results. World Street Journal gathered that a search party including local divers and  officials of the Lagos State Emergency Management Agency LASEMA continued to look for the remains of the late medical doctor at ...

A former Comptroller General of Customs, Abdullahi Dikko Inde, on Friday forfeited 17 exotic vehicles to the Federal Government barely 72 hours after the vehicles were uncovered from his warehouse in Kaduna. There were strong indications last night that Inde might face trial any moment from now. But his arraignment will begin when he returns from a medical trip abroad. ...

The Senate has described the Federal Government’s ban on the IMPORTATIONof vehicles through the land borders as an anti-people policy that can further impoverish the citizens. Consequently, the lawmakers overwhelmingly rejected the policy, and called on the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) to immediately suspend its implementation which started on January 1, 2017. The ban, if lifted, will boost the opportunity ...

In a bid to strengthen operations and reposition the Service to meet the challenges of the new year 2017, the Comptroller-General of  Customs, Col. Hameed Ibrahim Ali (Rtd) has approved the redeployment of 8 Assistant Comptrollers-General and 238 Deputy Comptrollers of Customs.  Assistant Comptrollers-General affected are: •    ACG Charles Edike from Zone A to Human Resource Development (HRD) •   ...

The Nigeria Retail Investors Group (NRI) has said that economic policy prescriptions for the 2017 proposed fiscal plans should, at the minimum, seek to address a reduction in the cost basis for utilising domestic raw materials/inputs on the production side. The NRI, a Nigerian think-tank whose membership comprises of Nigerian professionals, made the recommendation in a communiqué signed by its ...

Activities at the Seme and Idi Iroko land borders are now at fever pitch as vehicle importers and auto dealers are rushing to clear their vehicles (new and used) from the borders in order to beat federal government’s December 31, 2016 deadline for the restriction of importation vehicles to the nation’s seaports. The federal government had earlier in the month ...

IMPORTATIONof vehicles into Nigeria through the land borders have been banned by the Federal Government. The prohibition order covers all new and used vehicles. The ban is sequel to a Presidential Directive restricting all vehicle imports to Nigeria Sea Ports only. The order takes effect from 1st January 2017. The restriction on importation of vehicles follows that of Rice, whoseIMPORTS have ...

Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency, NIMASA, has said the seizure of about 20 security patrol vessels belonging to Global West Specialist Vessels Limited (a company purportedly owned by Government Epkemupolo aka Tompolo) by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has negatively affected the enforcement of the nation’s Coastal and Inland Shipping and Coastal Act otherwise known as the ...

Managing Director of Volkswagen Nigeria, Tokunbo Aromolaran, has said that Nigeria spends about N1.4trillion yearly on importation of used vehicles from different countries of the world. Speaking in Abuja, at a two-day workshop for heads of mass transit companies in Nigeria, Aromolaran, who delivered a paper titled; ‘Local Demand for Bus and Assembly Plants as Driver of Safer and Better Mass ...