Customs Officer Arraigned For Trafficking 384kg Of Marijuana, Using Official Car

A Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) officer, Ugwoke Emmanuel, was on Thursday summoned by the National Drugs Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) on drug trafficking charges before the Federal High Court sitting in Lagos. 

The court read a two-count charge of unlawful offering and transporting of 384 kilograms of cannabis, or marijuana. Mr. Emmanuel, a 25-year-old local of Bale-Oko in Badagry LGA, Lagos State, purportedly transported cannabis using an official NCS Toyota Hilux at the Gbaji Customs checkpoint along Seme-Badagry Road on May 14, 2017. 

The charged works at the Seme Border Post of the NCS. Emmanuel argued not guilty to the charge. The presiding judge, Justice Hadizat Rabiu-Shagari, while dismissing the

Senate plans bill to check high house rents

The Senate is working on a bill that will check the relentless increment in house rents in Abuja and different parts of Nigeria, the Senate Committee Chairman on Federal Capital Territory, Senator Dino Melaye, has said. 

He expressed that the 'Rent Edit' bill would secure inhabitants and owners even as he guaranteed that officials would guarantee the section of the bill before the finish of the 8th Senate. 

Melaye unveiled this in an announcement issued by the Director of Information at the Housing arm of the Federal Ministry of Power, Works and Housing, Mrs Eno Olotu, in Abuja, on Wednesday. 

As indicated by the statement, the senator, who spoke at the second Abuja Housing and Investment Expo, additionally expressed that debasement had frustrated advancement and development in the housing sector.

Melaye asked partners to have a change of

How I paid 'notorious kidnapper', Evans, additional $200,000 after initial $1 million ransom — Victim

Asserted famous kidnapping boss, Chukwudi Onwuamadike (prevalently known as Evans), collected an additional $200,000 from one of his victims in the wake of guaranteeing some portion of the $1 million ransom was "old cash,"

The victim, who asked for not to be named in light of the fact that he didn't need reputation, said he paid an aggregate of $1.2 million to Evans and not $1 million as being accounted for.

"He gathered 1.2 (million dollars) from me, not 1 million he's composition," the victim, who was among the few individuals grabbed by Evans in the FESTAC zone, revealed in an interview.

"Since when he released me, there was an assention amongst me and him, the day he was releasing me, he said the cash my wife gave him, that like 200,000 was old cash, that they didn't gather it from her, and that the cash must be finished. I told him to relaese me let me go and search for the

N541 billion Debt: Access Bank, others take over Etisalat Nigeria

A consortium of banks, led by Access Bank PLC and other Nigerian and foriegn banks, has assumed control over the administration of Etisalat Nigeria, effective June 15. 

The takeover took after the fall of the exertion by Emerging Markets Telecommunications Services, EMTS, advanced by-one time Chairman, United Bank for Africa, UBA, Hakeem Bello-Osagie, to achieve concurrence with the banks on debt reconstructing plans in the extended $1.72 billion (about N541.8 billion) debt impasse. 

Be that as it may, EMTS Holding BV, built up in the Netherlands, has up to June 23 to finish the exchange of 100% of the organization's offers in Etisalat to the

300 graduates quit Kano Internal Revenue Service work over N35,000 pay

Barely three months after their engagement as revenue officials with the Kano Internal Revenue Service (KIRS), at the very least 300 out of the 765 graduates as of late engaged to work in the administration, have dumped the employment. 

Reason is a result of the insignificant pay of N35,000 every month, which the graduates depicted as poor as well as in opposition to what was before guaranteed. 

As indicated by one of the recently connected with graduates that dumped the employment, the administration has neglected to satisfy a portion of the guarantees made to them as to the administration's compensation scale, focusing on that a large portion of them where coaxed to leave their occupations and acknowledge the assessment era work just to be paid N35, 000. 

"We were informed that they will offer us a superior compensation than what we were earning at our previous place of work. Be that as it may, after we have finished up every single bureaucratic engagement, we

2 dead, Church, Mosque razed as task force conflict with Hausa traders in Rivers

Around two individuals have been dreaded murdered with place of worship burnt as Hausa traders and a few young people, accepted to be neighborhood government task force group in Eleme LGA of Rivers State, conflicted. 

It was accumulated that inconvenience began when a few young people from Eleme, who are working as task force, went to Opaku Park in Onne to request payment of taxes from Hausa dealers working in the region. 

An observer, Mr. Franklin Bobmanuel, portrayed that the youths wound up plainly furious when the traders declined paying the tax and the following contention brought about a free-for-all. 

Bobmanuel said one of the tax office died amid the battle and his associates, on seeing that one of them had passed on, murdered one of the traders in striking back. It was

N-POWER: FG to recruit another 300,000 youths

The Federal Government is set to recruit 300,000 young people in the second batch of its N-Power social intervention and occupation creation program. 

The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed unveiled this on Friday in Isanlu-Isin people group close Omu-Aran town in Kwara State. 

Mohammed said that the Federal Government would "revive the N-POWER entrance by one week from now to initiate the procedure for the recruitment". 

He urged the young people to exploit the recruitment training by finishing the