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The Standards Organisation of Nigeria (SON) yesterday, sealed a plastic company and arrested three persons for producing harmful plastics. Point News247 reports that according to the Director General, SON, Farouk Salim, the enforcement exercise was part of the efforts by the agency to reduce to the barest minimum, sub-standard and harmful products being circulated across the country. He stated that the agency’s Mandatory Conformity Assessment Programme (MANCAP) makes it quite clear the standard requirements for locally manufactured plastic products, adding that the erring company has been producing plastic products below standards parameters.The three arrested suspects have been subsequently taken to…
The principal of Auga Community Grammar School, Joshua Adeyemi, has been kidnapped at gunpoint. Point News247 reports that Joshua Adeyemi and four others were kidnapped along the Auga/Ise-Akoko Road in Akoko North-East Local Government Area, Ondo State. Adeyemi was abducted together with his vice, Ifedayo Yesufu, and three other teachers in the school at gunpoint. The incident happened on Thursday afternoon when the victims were travelling in a Toyota Corolla. They were rounded up and taken into the forest by the attackers. One of the victims, a pregnant lady, Blessing Okeke, was released by the abductors due to her condition…
Governor Willie Obiano of Anambra State has been on the watch list of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). Point News247 gathered that in a letter to the Comptroller-General of the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) dated November 15, 2021, the commission had requested the service to place the governor on a watch list and inform it anytime he is travelling out of the country from any of the international airports and other points of entry and exit. The reason behind the anti-graft agency’s action cannot be ascertained at the moment. However, sources said the move is an indication that…
The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Ogun Area Command, has again proven to be a veritable source of revenue generation for the government. Point News247 reports that the Area Controller, Dera Nnadi, made this disclosure on Wednesday at a press briefing at the NCS office in Abeokuta, the Ogun state capital. Presenting the agency’s scorecard on revenue generation, Nnadi disclosed that a total of N2,437,050, being proceeds of auction sales of seized petroleum products and scrap metals, was made by the command during the period under review. He, however, said his management has met with royal fathers in Ogun with the…
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), reveals that 25 schools in Nigeria have been attacked, while 1,440 students have been abducted since January 2021. In a new published report titled, ‘Children in West and Central Africa among those Who Suffer Highest Rates of Grave Violations in Armed Conflict’, the humanitarian agency stated that children in West and Central Africa are among those who suffer the highest rates of grave violations in armed conflict. UNICEF also revealed that since 2016, the West and Central Africa region ranks; “first in the world in terms of number of children verified as recruited and…
The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) is set to introduce Webb Tracker, a mobile Application which is poised to aid the Federal Government’s ease of doing business policy. Webb Tracker also includes a simplified standard operating procedure for the use of scanners. Point News247 reports that the mobile app enables any person that has access to the NICIS II to remotely validate any declaration/payment and more importantly the status of a particular consignment/vehicle. This information was passed via a press statement signed by the NCS Public Relations Officer, Joseph O. Attah, on behalf of theComptroller General of the Nigeria Customs Service,…
Residents in Abuja have expressed dismay over the fire incidence in Nyanya Market, just about three weeks after a fire outbreak at the Kubwa Ultra-Modern Market, where many people lost their lives and property worth millions of naira. Point News247 reports that the fire occured in the late hours of Tuesday. The incident caused serious confusion in the market as traders and passers-by scampered for safety. As at the time of filing this report, the cause of the fire which had not been ascertained However, the spokesperson of the Federal Fire service, Ugo Huan, confirmed the incident, adding that the…
President Muhammadu Buhari has called on the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Timipre Sylva, to visit a Bayelsa community and investigate the level of damage caused by the recent oil spillage. President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday asked Timipre Sylva, to check on the state of things in the community of the oil spill. Point News247 reports that the Minister made this known while speaking to journalists after a meeting with the President. According to Sylva, the President had given a directive to the petroleum ministry to ascertain the level of damage done at the site. A wellhead in the…
Despite calls by maritime stakeholders for sanity in the industry and appointment of more professionals who have the required knowledge to tackle myriads of challenges facing the sector, President Muhammadu Buhari led All Progressives Congress (APC) government appears to be working contrary to expectations of industry watchers as it continues to compromise standards with the appointment of unfit individuals. Many were expectant of seeing an insider, a tested and well groomed hand taking over from the vintage and performing , but retiring Barr. Hassan Bello, who has in the last eight years transformed the Nigerian Shippers’ Council (NSC) into a…
A recent press statement by the Association of Maritime Journalists of Nigeria (AMJON), made available to Point News247, has challenged the Nigerian Shippers’ Council (NSC)of conniving with freight companies in repatriating funds out of the shores of Nigeria. AMJON has slammed the port economic regulator for aiding the excesses of foreign shipping lines operating in Nigerian ports. It is reported that there have been perennial squabble between freight forwarders and shipping lines over failure of the former to refund container deposits paid to them. Freight forwarders have blamed the cause of inability to return empty container to the shipping lines…