Tuesday, September 12, 2023

Niger Missing As Nigeria, Benin, Togo Banner Off Regiona Maritime Operation

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Niger Missing As Nigeria, Benin, Togo Banner Off Regiona Maritime Operation

A file photo showing vessels deployed for maritime operations

 

The navies of, Benin Republic, Togo and Nigeria have flagged off Operation Safe Domain II, with the theme ‘Enhancing Maritime Security through Collaboration for Regional Prosperity’.


The occasion was hung on Monday in Benin Republic.

The occasion was hung on Monday in Benin Republic.

Be that as it may, the Niger Republic, one of the signatories to the MoU, was missing at the function.

As per the Head of the Global Sea Coordination Center Zone E, Commodore Aniedi Ibok, the activity is a part of an update of understanding endorsed in 2014.

Ibok noticed that the arrangement is to empower the naval forces of every country to battle criminal components with practically no line limitations.

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).

Monday, September 11, 2023

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.

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