Author: Kwara Reporters

The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Ogun Area Command II, has impounded a bullion van loaded with 12 bags of 50kg smuggled foreign parboiled rice.The van, with registration number, FKJ 993 BZ was impounded alongside the sum of N24,489,500.00 belonging to the Abeokuta branch of Access bank.The Customs Area Controller, Olusola Alade, disclosed this to journalists on Friday while handing over the bullion van and the money to officials of Bankers Warehouse and Access Bank in Abeokuta.According to him, the bullion van which belongs to Bankers Warehouse Ltd. was impounded in April 2022 by operatives of Joint Border Patrol team along…

•How EFCC ordered 52 firms to submit forex allocation forms from 2014 to 2023Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on Thursday stormed the headquarters of Dangote Industries Limited in Ikoyi, Lagos, in furtherance of the ongoing investigation into the alleged abuse of the foreign exchange allocations by the immediate past Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Godwin Emefiele.The anti-graft commission is probing the alleged preferential allocations of forex to the Dangote Group owned by billionaire Aliko Dangote and 51 other companies under the Emefiele-led CBN.Two senior officials of the EFCC confirmed the presence of the anti-graft operatives…

The National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) in Benin Republic says there 15,000 Nigerians studying in the country.This is as NANS called for leniency over the ban on validation of degree certificates from the country and Togo.Recall that an investigative reporter had recently exposed certificate racketeering in schools in the neighbouring countries.Following the development, the federal government announced a ban on the validation of degree certificates from the countries.But, the NANS president in Benin Republic, Ugochukwu Favour, said the government should consider legitimately admitted students.Favour spoke Thursday on Channels TV’s breakfast show Sunrise Daily.He said the government should step up…

Popular Nollywood Veteran, Chief Adedeji Aderemi aka Olofa Ina is dead, KwaraReporters has learnt.Actor, Saidi Balogun, confirmed his passing in a post shared on his Instagram account on Thursday, January 4.He wrote: “Goodnight legend Chief Deji Akinremi (Olofa Ina) RIP.Film producer and Chief Executive Officer of Best of Nollywood (BON) also confirmed his demise.Aderemi who is the Sobaloju of Edeland, was 73.Chief Aderemi is a renowned name in contemporary Yoruba theatre and film circle.He is also famous for the rich Yoruba proverbs and idioms that punctuate his lines in various films and stage playsHe was born into the family of…

A Nigerian, simply identified as Oladimeji has narrated how he and his friend identified as Cosmos, were arrested in Togo and sent to prison without fair trial.He said he and Cosmos were travelling to Canada and decided to first travel to Togo before flying to Canada having got information that it was cheaper to fly from Togo.Oladimeji explained that trouble started on November 8, 2023, when they got to the airport and were at the airline stand when airport officials summoned them to inspect their travel documents.In a long post he (Oladimeji) narrated to an X user with the username…

The Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria (IPMAN) and the Nigeria National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL) have warned Nigerians against panic-buying and dismissing reports of a planned hike in the pump price of petrol also called Premium Motor Spirit (PMS).According to reports, fuel marketers clashed with the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL) over whether the government was still paying subsidy. The development triggered claims that the commodity will now cost N1,200 per litre due to the cessation of under-recovery of fuel costs.‘No Basis For That’But speaking on Channels Television’s Sunrise Daily, IPMAN’s Public Relations Officer, Okanlawon Olanrewaju, said there…

A Lagos-based lawyer, Olumide Sonupe, has been hospitalised after he was said to have been detained by the police while seeking the bail of his client at the Moshalashi Police Station in the Alimosho area of the state on December 30, 2023.PUNCH Metro learnt that the 36-year-old Olumide was taken to the hospital when his health deteriorated upon his release from the police station on January 1, 2024 after spending two nights with his client in the police cell.It was learnt that the incident happened when Olumide went to the station on December 30 to seek the bail of his…

Officials of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) are considering the possibility of obtaining an arrest warrant against the former Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, Sadiya Umar-Farouq, according to Daily Trust. The development, it was gathered from impeccable sources, followed the former minister’s absence at the headquarters of the anti-graft agency located at Jabi, Abuja on Wednesday.Umar-Farouq, who was billed to face the crack detectives of the EFCC around 10:00am over alleged fraud, was being probed over the sum of N37,170,855,753.44 that was allegedly laundered under her watch through a contractor, James Okwete.Daily Trust had reported…

A graduate of Computer Science at the Olabisi Onabanjo University, Ago-Iwoye, Ogun State, Oluwatosin Onadipe, was said to have died after he was allegedly hit with an iron rod by an official of a motor park in Ago, Odogbolu Local Government Area of the state for preaching.This is just as his body was said to have been buried by the roadside by officials of the Odogbolu Local Government Area after his body was dumped by police officers.PUNCH Metro gathered from the father of the deceased, Raymond Onadipe, on Wednesday, that Oluwatosin left home on December 17 to attend a programme…

Education Minister Tahir Mamman on Channels Television’s Politics Today programme on January 3, 2024. Following the suspension of accreditation and evaluation of degree certificates from Benin Republic and Togo, the Federal Government has said the sanction would be extended to more countries like Uganda, Kenya and Niger Republic.“We are not going to stop at just Benin and Togo,” Education Minister Tahir Mamman said on Channels Television’s Politics Today programme on Wednesday. “We are going to extend the dragnet to countries like Uganda, Kenya, even Niger here where such institutions have been set up.”We will not stop at the suspension of certificates…