Customs Seize N3.3bn Worth Of Smuggled Goods In June     Customs Area Controller, Federal Operations Unit, Zone A, Usman Bello Yahaya, said on Wednesday that the Unit recorded a total of 144 seizures with a Duty Paid Value (DPV) of N3.3 billion in June 2021. He said...

Nigeria Loses $26.3bn Annually To Maritime Insecurity     President Muhamamadu Buhari has lamented the huge loss of revenue to maritime criminality. The President stated the loss at a whopping $26.3 billion yearly, a development, he said, had become harmful to the economy and safety of citizens. According to...

Senate Orders N300bn Refund From NPA, BPE, 57 Agencies     The Senate on Tuesday directed 59 Federal Government agencies to return over N300bn funds allegedly misappropriated by them to the federation account. It specifically ordered that all monies illegally spent by the affected agencies including the Nigerian...

N15trn Infrastructure Company'll Begin Operations In Q3, 2021 - CBN       The N15tn Infrastructure Corporation of Nigeria will begin operations in the third quarter of this year, the Central Bank of Nigeria announced on Tuesday. CBN Governor, Godwin Emefiele, who announced this during an investors’ webinar organised...

How Jonathan Saved $3.5bn From Pensions, Oil Subsidy Fraud - Okonjo-Iweala     Director-General of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, yesterday gave an account of how she superintended over saving Nigeria a cumulative of $3.5 billion by cleaning up the country’s pension and subsidy...

Reps Grill NSITF Boss Over Fresh N17bn Illegal Transfer       The House of Representatives’ Committee on Public Accounts, on Tuesday, grilled the Managing Director of the National Social Insurance Trust Fund, Michael Akabogu, over the transfer of a total of N17,158, 883,034.69 to persons and companies...