In addition to the top officers who voluntarily retired from the Nigerian Customs Service last week, about 400 officers are fast on their way out of the service.
Reasons adduced for the imminent retirement of these officers include corruption, indiscipline, insubordination and absenteeism.
While some of the officers marked for retirement are alleged to have influenced their own promotions, others are said to have flouted redeployment directives by refusing to report at their new postings.
Some of the officers are also said to be in the habit...
Sunday, 1 November 2015
Following a recent criticism by PDP spokesman, Chief Olisa Metuh that President Buhari was demarketing Nigeria, the presidency has said that Buhari will remain true to Nigerians and the International community by always telling them the truth.
Buhari had during his recent visit to India said that Nigeria was broke and could therefore not afford to engage 42 ministers as was done by the previous administration.
The PDP spokesman had subsequently criticized him for selling Nigeria cheap before the international community by saying that the country...
Telecommunications giant, MTN has pleaded for staggered payment of the $5.2b fine imposed on it by the Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC for violating its guidelines on the deactivation of unregistered SIM cards.
Feelers from government quarters indicate that following a series of meetings between the company's management team from South Africa and Nigeria and the Federal Government, an agreement is being reached on the modalities for the payment.
“There have been series of meetings at the Presidency between the Vice President Osinbajo...
Some Internally displaced persons taking shelter in Abuja have cried out that their leaders have been selling items donated to them by well-meaning people and organizations.
At the IDP camp in Kuchigoro, Abuja where the practice has been going on for some time, a resident confirmed to Vanguard that the act is perpetrated by those in charge of the camp.
Vanguard reports the source as saying that leaders from Gwoza and other faraway camps in the Northeast take advantage of the long distance of the camps to remove parts of their share of the donations...
The United Nations has pledged to support Nigeria in her efforts to restore security and normalcy in the Northeast of the country.
Speaking on behalf of UN agencies in the country at the North East humanitarian stakeholders meeting organised by the Federal Government in Maiduguri, UNFPA Country Representative in Nigeria, Ms RatiDzai Ndhlovu said that
the humanitarian situation in the region required a multi sectoral response.
Her words ;
“Nigeria has the great capacity to deliver what it wants to do. Nigeria equally has the capacity to restore...
Governor Kashim Shettima of Borno State has declared that the days of Boko Haram are numbered as they no longer pose a threat to the territorial integrity of the country.
Shettima made the remark in Maiduguri while addressing the
Northeast humanitarian stakeholders meeting organised by the Federal Government.
According to Shettima, the meeting marked a significant step forward in the journey to forever chase insurgency out of the land and place the Northeast on the trajectory to sustainable development and peaceful coexistence.
In the address...
Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has urged Civil Society Organizations, CSOs to help rebuild, reconstruct, reconcile and resettle victims of Boko Haram activities in the Northeast.
Speaking at the Northeast Humanitarian Multi-stakeholder Engagement meeting in Maiduguri, Osinbajo said that the region would have been worse off without the contributions of the CSOs and other voluntary organizations.
“The many civil society groups, funding partners, regional and international partners, have given up their time, resources and even lives in some cases...
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