FG Introduces Cargo Administrations On Apapa-Ibadan Freight Rail

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FG Introduces Cargo Administrations On Apapa-Ibadan Freight Rail

The Federal Government inaugurates freight services on Apapa-Ibadan cargo rail in Lagos State on Tuesday, September 12, 2023. 

 

The Minister of Transportation, Saidu Alkali, inaugurated the first cargo movement from the Lagos-Ibadan rail corridor during his first official tour of the rail corridor on Tuesday.

Transporters moved 92.28 percent of Nigeria's complete products and 60.77 percent of imports through the Apapa port in the primary quarter of 2022 (Q1'22).

The Minister kick off the visit at the Ebute Meta station prior to continuing to Apapa for the send off, then ventured out to Ibadan utilizing the 157 km rail hall.

Three mentors of 30 carts were stacked as the debut cargo development was started off.

The Nigerian Rail line Company (NRC) said it would begin with three mentors each day with its Overseeing Chief (MD) noticing that the partnership had the ability to increase the numbers.

This work is supposed to decongest the Apapa port as transporters moved 92.28 percent of Nigeria's absolute commodities and 60.77 percent of imports through the office in the principal quarter of 2022 (Q1'22).

UK Opens Transitory Visa Accommodation Center In Enugu

UK Opens Transitory Visa Accommodation Center In Enugu

The British national flag is flown at half-mast for Queen Elizabeth II at the High Commission in Abuja on September 9, 2022. Channels TV/ Sodiq Adelakun.

The UK Mission noticed the office will work out of the new area in the South-Eastern state and will not long from now offer a two times per week administration.

The English High Commission in Nigeria on Monday reported the kickoff of another brief accommodation community for UK visas in Enugu State from Wednesday, September 13.

As per an assertion by the UK Mission, the office will work out of the Omedel Lavish Inn, 4/6 Connection Street off Pascal and Jerk Bustop, Freedom Design, Enugu and will presently offer a two times per week administration.

"The arrangement framework permits a candidate to choose Enugu as their application area while applying for a UK Visa. This is notwithstanding current areas in Abuja. Lagos and Port Harcourt," the assertion read.

"The brief accommodation place in Enugu opens as a Top notch Area meaning it will cost NGN246,250.00, which incorporates an Exceptional Parlor arrangement, dispatch return, SMS warnings, general client service and direction."

The English High Commission in Nigeria made sense of that interest for visa administrations will be painstakingly observed and administration surveyed/extended should there be adequate volumes.

"TLS will preliminary this area for somewhere around 90 days to evaluate take-up of the help and empower choices on continuation," the assertion closed.

Gov. Abiodun Orders Destruction Of Gbenga Daniel's 5-Story Building

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Gov. Abiodun Orders Destruction Of Gbenga Daniel's 5-Story Building

The demolition of a commercial five-storey building worth millions of naira, owned by Olufunke Daniel, wife of the former governor of Ogun state, Gbenga Daniel was carried out early Sunday by the State government .

A press explanation delivered by specialist dealing with the property, Adeyinka Kotoye depicted the episode as sad, taking note of that even a court order limiting the state government from obliterating the structure served on September 7 was not complied by an administration that supposedly resolves to law and order and equity as parts of it's constituent missions .

The assertion further noticed that the court will be moved toward before long even with most recent negligence to a past decision.

The state government while talking on the destruction, said the erection of the structure Contradicts Ogun state Actual Arranging Regulations.

An assertion endorsed by the Extremely durable Secretary, Service of Actual Preparation and Metropolitan Turn of events, Olayiwola Abiodun noticed that the design disregarded the building regulations of the state with various imperfections.

Two Killed In Lagos-Abeokuta Road Crash

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Two Killed In Lagos-Abeokuta Road Crash

Eyewitness accounts said one of the vehicles in the collission, a bus loaded with foodstuffs, was in the rightful lane driving outbound from Abeokuta.

A file photo of Lagos-Ibadan Expressway

 

The Ogun State Traffic Compliance and Enforcement Corps (TRACE) has confirmed the death of two persons with one other sustaining injuries in an accident involving a Mazda bus and a Mazda car in the Ayedere area of the Lagos-Abeokuta Expressway.

The accident was reportedly caused by the driver of an unregistered Mazda car driving against traffic and had a head-on collision with the Mazda bus marked SEY 311 ZY.

The spokesman for the state traffic outfit, Babatunde Akinbiyi, confirmed the incident to journalists in Abeokuta.

The TRACE spokesperson added that the drivers of the two vehicles died while a motor boy sustained injuries

He explained that the injured motorboy had been rescued and rushed to a nearby hospital before the arrival of TRACE, saying the driver of the car had been taken away by his family for burial.

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The corps’ spokesman added that the remains of the drivers of the buses were deposited at Ifo General Hospital morgue.

“According to eyewitness accounts, the white Mazda bus, loaded with foodstuffs, was in the rightful lane, outbound Abeokuta before the accident occurred,” he said.

“The unregistered Mazda car, driving in a direction prohibited by traffic law, collided with the bus, leaving the drivers of both vehicles dead on the spot due to the impact of the collision.

“The motorboy of the white Mazda bus sustained varying degrees of injuries and has been taken to a private clinic for medical attention.”

The TRACE spokesman warned drivers to desist from committing route violations, adding that there are a lot of dangers associated with route violations.

Accounting Icon, Pa Akintola Williams, Passes Away At 104

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Accounting Icon,  Pa Akintola Williams, Passes Away At 104

 Pa Akintola Williams

 

The doyen of the accounting profession, Pa Akintola Williams, has passed away at the age of 104 years old.

Supposedly the main Sub-Saharan African to turn into a contracted bookkeeper, he praised his 104th birthday celebration on August 9.

Dad Williams is supposedly the main Sub-Saharan African to turn into a sanctioned bookkeeper after he breezed through the passing assessment of the Establishment of Contracted Bookkeepers of Britain and Ribs (ICAEW) in 1949.

The symbol assumed a main part in the improvement of the accounting calling in the nation by working with the foundation of the Relationship of accountings in Nigeria, which transformed into the Institute of Charter  Accountant of Nigeria (ICAN).

He proceeded to turn into an establishing individual from ICAN and was likewise engaged with laying out the Nigerian Stock Trade, presently the Nigerian Trade Gathering.

A carefully prepared chairman, Williams was an exceptional accountant, the executives expert and sequential business person in his dynamic working days.

After his early education in Nigeria, Williams obtained a Bachelor of Commerce Degree (majoring in Banking and Finance) from the University of London in 1946 before he qualified as a Chartered Accountant in England.

He worked with the Inland Revenue as an assessment officer from 1950 to 1952, when he left the civil service and founded Akintola Williams & Co., the first indigenous firm of chartered accountants in Africa (now Deloitte & Touche Nigeria).

Police Kill Four Thought Hijackers, Capture 13 Others In Kaduna

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Police Kill Four Thought Hijackers, Capture 13 Others In Kaduna

In this file photo, a police officer hold bunch of handcuffs at SARS headqurters in Abuja on October 3rd, 2020 .

Among the suspects is a confidential safety officer, who supposedly engineered the snatching of his supervisor from his home for a N10 million payment.

The Kaduna State Police Order says it has killed four thought hijackers and captured 13 others during sting activities in various pieces of the state.

Unveiling this while strutting the suspects, the acting Advertising Official of the order, ASP Manir Hassan, let columnists know that the thought hijackers were killed during gunbattle in various areas in Kaduna State, while the captures depended on knowledge reports about the suspects' evil exercises.

As per the police representative, among the suspects is one Auwal Saidu, a confidential safety officer, who supposedly planned the kidnapping of his supervisor from his home and later gathered the amount of N10 million as payment before he and his gangsters delivered the person in question.

A portion of the things recuperated from the suspects included two AK-47 rifles, three privately made guns, two bikes and 15 live cartridges as well as packs of pot.

The police representative noticed that every one of the captured suspects would be charged in court upon the finish of its examination.

Alibaba Announces Surprise Departure Of Ex-CEO

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Alibaba Announces Surprise Departure Of Ex-CEO

Two months after announcing his appointment as head of the firm's new cloud computing branch, Alibaba said its now ex-boss was no longer with the company.

Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba has announced the surprise departure of former CEO Daniel Zhang, who had been set Monday to take charge of a key subsidiary as the firm undergoes a major restructuring.

(FILES) This file photo taken on June 14, 2023 shows the Chinese e-commerce company Alibaba logo during the Vivatech technology startups and innovation fair at the Porte de Versailles exhibition centre in Paris. – Chinese tech giant Alibaba announced on June 20, 2023 that it will replace chairman and CEO Daniel Zhang with current executive vice chairman Joseph Tsai as chairman and Eddie Wu as CEO in September. 

Hangzhou-based Alibaba is one of China’s most prominent technology firms, with business operations spanning cloud computing, e-commerce, logistics, media and entertainment, and artificial intelligence.

After years of turbulence in the Chinese tech sector, Alibaba in March announced the biggest restructuring in its history, dividing itself into six entities, with the goal of listing them on the stock exchange separately.

CEO Daniel Zhang was due to take charge of the firm’s new cloud computing branch, now a separate entity, on Monday.

But two months after announcing his appointment, Alibaba said its now ex-boss was no longer with the company.

“The board of our Company expresses its deepest appreciation to Mr Zhang for his contributions to Alibaba Group over the past 16 years,” the company said in a statement to the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, where it is listed, late on Sunday.

It gave no reason for his departure.

Plans for a spin-off cloud computing firm would go ahead, Alibaba said, “under a separate management team to be appointed”.

The company announced in June that Zhang would be replaced by Joseph Tsai as chairman and Eddie Wu as CEO.

(FILES) Daniel Zhang, executive chairman and chief executive officer of Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group, speaks during a ceremony to announce a strategic partnership between the Alibaba Group and Universal Beijing Resort in Beijing on October 17, 2019. 

The executive played a vital role in the company’s success in the past decade, spearheading the now hugely popular Singles’ Day shopping festival since its first edition in 2009.

Shares in the firm sank nearly 3.5 percent Monday — the first working day of its new reorganisation into six distinct branches.

In addition to e-commerce and cloud computing, Alibaba’s reach stretches into everything from logistics to media, entertainment and artificial intelligence.

But its vast size brought it into the crosshairs of Chinese regulators as Beijing sought to crack down on the tech sector.

In 2020, Alibaba became the country’s first tech giant to bear the brunt of increased oversight, when authorities called off what would have become one of the most valuable public listings in history — valued at $34 billion — for its former subsidiary Ant Group.

Ant Group is the owner of Alipay, a mobile payment application widely used in China.

One month after officials hit the brakes on its IPO, Alibaba was investigated for alleged anti-competitive practices, then issued a $2.8 billion fine.

And in July authorities fined Ant Group nearly $1 billion for breaching banking regulations.