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The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has intercepted 120 tons of imported chemical-laden animal hides and skins popularly known as ‘Ponmo’. Point News247 reports thatNAFDAC revealed that the large quantities of dangerous ‘Ponmo’ which were intercepted at six different locations in Lagos State, South West Nigeria are toxic and injurious to human health. The Director-General of NAFDAC, Prof. Mojisola Adeyeye warned Nigerians to be cautious when buying ‘Ponmo’. She said seven suspects involved in the act are currently under investigation. She said that samples of the products have been sent to the laboratory for testing…

Federal Government of Nigeria has met with the Academic Staff Union Of Universities (ASUU). Point News247 reports that the Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige on Tuesday met with the leadership of the ASUU. Tuesday’s meeting was the first since the university lecturers declared their four-week warning strike last week, over what the union termed as the Federal Government’s refusal to honour its agreement to implement the Memorandum of Action signed with them in December 2020. ASUU maintains that issues such as the Integrated Personnel Payroll Information System (IPPIS) and that of the University Transparency Accountability Solution (UTAS), the…

Point News247 reports that a medical doctor at Dowen College, Dr. Mojisola Bisiriyu, on Tuesday, told an Ikeja Corona’s Court that no medical test was conducted on the late student of the school, Sylvester Oromoni before he was taken home on health grounds. Bisiriyu, the resident doctor at Dowen College, qualified as a medical doctor in 2007. She told the court that she had been working with the school for five years. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Bisiriyu made the disclosure while being cross-examined by counsel to Oromoni Family, Mr. Femi Falana (SAN). “No test was conducted…

Point News247 reports that the building housing the Federal Ministry of Finance has been gutted by fire. The building located in the Central Area of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, caught fire in the early hours of Wednesday. The Federal Fire Service and other concerned agencies are currently on ground trying to salvage the situation. This is a developing story.

Senate will vote on the report of the 1999 Constitution review today, Wednesday, February 23. Point News247 reports that the vote will be cast after the Senate Committee on Constitution Amendment laid the report of the 1999 Constitution review before the Senate. Deputy Senate President Ovie Omo-Agege announced this during Tuesday’s plenary session. Meanwhile, sources within the presidency have said President Muhammadu Buhari will also likely sign the re-worked Electoral Act Amendment Bill into law on Wednesday. Earlier on Tuesday, the Presidential Spokesman, Femi Adesina during an interview on Channels Television’s Sunrise Daily said President Buhari will sign the bill…

Point News247 reports that Okey Samuel Mbonu, a fast rising star in the political terrain, has declared his intention to run for the coming 2023 presidential elections, under the banner of Africa’s largest political party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) platform. In a letter delivered to the National Chairman of the PDP, His Excellency Dr. Iyorchia Ayu, at the Wadata Plaza National Headquarters of the PDP, Mbonu extolled his global credentials, including his current career as an International Consultant, providing expertise to global institutions, multilateral agencies, and others, in Africa and the United States. Mbonu also spoke of his prior…

Nigeria’s House of Representatives Public Accounts Committee has summoned the heads of three Federal Government agencies over the loss of billions of naira in revenue from companies operating in the oil and gas free zones, as contained in the audit queries issued by the Office of the Auditor-General for the Federation (AuGF). Point News247 reports that the affected agencies included the Bureau for Public Enterprises (BPE), Nigeria Oil and Gas Free Zone Authority (NOGFZA), and Standards Organisation of Nigeria (SON). It also directed its clerk to publish the said audit queries from the office against defaulting agencies in three national…

Point News247 reports that Comptroller A. A. Umar has assumed duty as the substantive Customs Area Controller (CAC) of Nigeria Customs Service, Western Marine Command (WMC). Umar took over from Deputy Comptroller E.O Ochiba on Monday. Comptroller Umar was among the Comptrollers who were recently redeployed on the 8 February 2022 by the Comptroller General of Customs, Col. Hameed Ibrahim Ali (Rtd). Spokesman of the command, ASCI Isah Sulaiman disclosed in a statement made available to newsmen. During a brief handing over ceremony at the WMC Headquarters Ibafon-Apapa, Lagos, the outgoing Ag. CAC welcomed and congratulated the substantive Area Controller…

Chairman of the Senate Committee on Special Duties, Senator Yusuf Abubakar Yusuf, All Progressives Congress, APC, Taraba Central has called on the Federal Government to ensure that spouses, children, siblings, parents and all other beneficiaries of corruption proceeds must be punished along side the major actor in the crime. Point News247 reports that Yusuf made this disclosure while speaking on the of case against the Deputy Commissioner of Police and erstwhile head of the Nigerian Police Intelligence Response Team, Abba Kyari. Speaking with journalists in Abuja, Senator Yusuf called for the immediate creation of an agency that would be saddled…

Point News247 reports that the planned arraignment of former Imo State Governor, Anayo Rochas Okorocha, on Tuesday, at the Federal High Court in Abuja, on N2.9bn corruption was stalled. Okorocha, currently a Senator representing Imo West in the Senate, was absent in court and was also not represented by any legal practitioner.The development scuttled the arraignment. However, six other defendants billed to be arraigned along with him on 17-count corruption charges were in court, along with their lawyers. When the matter was mentioned on Tuesday, counsel to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Mr Cosmos Ugwu told Justice Inyang…