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The Nigeria Customs Service, Area ll Command, Onne Port, Rivers State, has announced that it raked in a total of N13,106,025,050.24 as revenue for last month. The amount, which is the highest monthly revenue generated in the Onne Area II Command since its creation over 37 years ago, is also the first revenue to be generated under the Command’s new controller, Comptroller Auwal Mohammed, who resumed duty on the September, 1, 2020. In the same vein, the Command said it processed a total of 18,085.96 Metric Tonnes (MT) of export activities with Free On-Board (FOB) value of $6,441,850.67 and N10,595,944.43…

The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ondo has raised the alarm over alleged plots by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the Zenith Labour Party (ZLP) to rig Saturday’s governorship election. The ruling party said the desperation of opposition parties is making them to take what it termed ‘criminal dimension’. Ondo APC named Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo state as coordinator of the rigging machinery. It further accused Makinde of recruiting thousands of PDP members in Oyo to participate in the election. Publicity Secretary of the party, Alex Kalejaiye, in a statement, alleged some staff of the Independent National Electoral…

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has announced 103 confirmed new coronavirus cases in the country on Thursday. The 103 cases announced by the Centre for Disease Control takes the total number of confirmed COVID-19 cases to 59,841. The NCDC also announced the discharge of 148 patients from isolation centers across the country with no new death reported. Lagos state, the epicentre of the virus in Nigeria reported 39 new confirmed cases taking the total number of confirmed cases in Lagos alone to 19815. Nigeria announces 155 new coronavirus cases Rivers state reported 21 new cases, Federal Capital Territory…

Republican leader Mitch McConnell, 78, on Thursday revealed he had not been to the White House since August because of the way it has handled Covid-19. The Kentucky senator said he spoke to the president frequently over the phone but had not visited since 6 August. Mr McConnell, a polio survivor, contrasted the White House with the Senate, where lawmakers are urged to wear masks and social distance. His comments come as the White House deals with a Covid-19 outbreak. Since President Donald Trump’s Covid-19 diagnosis, at least two dozen people in his circle and staff at the White House…

President Muhammadu Buhari laid out the 2021 budget before a joint session of the National Assembly on Thursday, detailing how government intends to increase revenue and pay debts. In his budget speech titled, Budget of Economic Recovery and Resilience, President Buhari also explained how the 2020 budget had fared and what Nigeria achieved in the last year. READ FULL STATEMENT BELOW: It is with pleasure that I present the 2021 Federal Budget Proposals to this Joint Session of the National Assembly. Distinguished and Honourable Leaders, and Members of the National Assembly, at this juncture, I wish to commend your tremendous efforts…

The Senate will on Tuesday, October 20, 2020, debate the Petroleum Industry Bill forwarded by President Muhammadu Buhari to the National Assembly last week. The disclosure was made in an announcement by the Senate President Ahmad Lawan, moments before the upper chamber adjourned plenary on Thursday. According to Lawan, early debate on the bill is expected to avert any delay in consideration, resulting from the upper chamber’s decision to suspend plenary for one month to enable Ministries, Departments and Agencies of Government defend their respective budgets for the year 2021. Lawan added that the critical piece of legislation, after the…

The FBI says it has foiled a militia plot to abduct and violently overthrow Michigan’s Democratic Governor Gretchen Whitmer. Mrs Whitmer has become a target of coronavirus sceptics after enacting strict mitigation measures that were overturned by a judge last week. Officials say the kidnapping plot involved six men who planned to hold a “treason trial” for her. Mrs Whitmer’s office has yet to comment. In May, armed protesters opposed to lockdown stormed the state capitol. According to a sworn FBI affidavit, an undercover law enforcement source attended a June meeting in Dublin, Ohio, where a group of Michigan-based militia…

…Blames revenue loss on inefficiency of revenue agencies Senate President Ahmad Lawan has asked President Muhammadu Buhari to implement the Economic Sustainability Plan approved by the National Assembly so as to strengthen the economy in view of the resultant impact occasioned by Covid-19 pandemic. Lawan gave the charge on Thursday in a welcome address delivered during the presentation of the 2021 budget estimates by President Buhari at a joint session of the National Assembly. According to the Senate President, there is the urgent need by government to sustain programmes aimed at economic diversification, not only because of the unpredictable nature…

The Sokoto Zonal Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Wednesday, October 7, 2020, handed over 39 motorcycles, (24 assembled and 15 unassembled), 22 grinding machines and 10 units of sewing machines to the National Directorate of Employment, (NDE), Sokoto, Sokoto State for onward disbursement to the beneficiaries. They are diverted constituency empowerment items, recovered from a contractor with the Directorate. The Sokoto Zonal Head of the EFCC, Bawa Usman Kaltungo, while handing over the items, described the development as a milestone in the fight against corruption. Court jails internet fraudster over N10m Bitcoin scam In her…

Justice Oluwatoyin Taiwo of the Special Offences Court sitting in Ikeja, Lagos, on Wednesday, October 7, 2020 convicted and sentenced an internet fraudster, Kehinde Adelakun, to nine months imprisonment. Adelakun was arraigned today by the Lagos Zonal Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on a two-count charge bordering on possession of documents containing false pretext. He was arrested on August 21, 2020 around the Oniru axis of Lagos State by operatives of the EFCC for his involvement internet fraud. One of the count reads: “That you, Adelakun Kehinde Adewumi, sometime in August 2020, at Lagos within the…