LAGOS APRIL 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A herbalist, Femi Emmanuel, is now with the police in Kwara State for allegedly causing the death of a 45-year-old woman and a mother of two, Mrs Tawakalitu Mukaila, in his house. It was gathered that the death occurred in Emmanuel’s house at Ila-Odo-owa, Oke-Ero LGA, after Tawakalitu, a trader and resident…
LAGOS DECEMBER 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Nigeria Customs Service says it has placed a red flag on the activities of smugglers in Ogun State, especially during the yuletide. The Area Controller, Ogun Area Command, Michael Ojobo Agbara, disclosed this to newsmen at the Idiroko Border Command on Tuesday. The Controller expressed worry about the increasing use of…
LAGOS JULY 5TH(NEWSRANGERS)-The Nigeria Customs Service, Zone “B” Federal Operations Unit, has impounded an empty petrol tanker, a J5 bus and a truck conveying smuggled rice on the Kaduna-Zaria axis. Usman Dakingari, the Controller, FOU Zone B, dropped the hint while addressing journalists on the seizures in Kaduna on Wednesday. He said that the customs…
LAGOS APRIL 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-As work at the Ayade Industrial Park nears completion, the governor, Senator Ben Ayade has mobilized contractors for the state proposed noodles, feed mills and tooth pick plants. The noodles manufacturing plant will be located at the industrial park. Speaking to newsmen at the site of the noodles factory, Commissioner for Commerce…
LAGOS MARCH 23RD (NEWRANGERS)-At Nigeria’s normally manic border post of Seme, Lasisi Fanu says business has all but ground to a halt. He and other customs agents who help clear goods coming into Africa’s biggest economy from its smaller neighbor Benin say the long lines of trucks loaded with rice that used to jam the…
LAGOS JANUARY 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Men of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), on yesterday, shot and killed a young man at about 08:00am in Abule-Egba area of Lagos State. The boy, identified to be Toheeb Olayiwola, boarded a public bus to convey him to his place of work but was hit on his head when customs officers…