Customs Rake In N54bn Revenue In Three Months   The Nigerian Customs Services (NCS) says it generated over N54 billion revenue from its operations in Area 2 Command, Onne Port, Rivers State, between January and March, 2023. The Comptroller, Baba Imam, who stated this during a briefing...

Should Senate Tackle Customs for Rice Seizure?, by Zubaida Baba Ibrahim       Despite being Africa’s highest producer of rice, Nigeria spent an average of $4.2bn on its importation. These statistics were the basis on which the ban on rice importation was implemented in 2019. The importation ban...

Food Prices: Roots and Tubers To The Rescue By Salisu Na'inna Dambatta         The other day the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) while reporting the current inflation rate, indicated that despite the huge effort to boost productivity in the agriculture sector, the prices of food appreciated and...

Zainab Ahmed, Hameed Ali: How Newsmakers Stunned Newsbreakers With New IDEC Digital Technology By Mohammad Dahiru Lawal         Perhaps, the most stunning thing about Digital Technology, especially Digital Media, is not only the uses and gratification derived from it's utilization, but the accelerated pace at which it...

House To Probe Dormant VAT Waiver For Airlines       The House of Representatives is to probe the non-implementation of waiver of the payment of Value Added Tax (VAT) granted Nigerian Airlines two years ago. The removal of VAT for domestic airlines was approved in 2018 in an...

Revenue Generation by Apapa Custom hits N367.6bn in 9 months The Nigerian Customs Service (NCS) Apapa command, said it generated the sum of N367.6 billion naira between January and September. The Customs Area Controller, Apapa Command, Comptroller Mohammed Abba-Kura, disclosed this in a media chat in...