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Customs Introduces Automated Overtime Cargo Clearance System

19.09.2025

The Comptroller General of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Mr Bashir Adwale-Adeniyi, has said that the newly introduced Automated Overtime Cargo Clearance System initiative was designed to deliver an efficient, transparent, and technology-driven process for managing overtime cargo clearance and disposal. The Customs CG made this remark on Friday while sensitising stakeholders in Zones B...

Regular Payment Of Salaries, Gratuities Should Not Be Celebrated

19.09.2025

Governor Douye Diri of Bayelsa State has said that regular payment of salaries to workers and gratuity to retirees were part of the reasons he was elected and should not be celebrated. He revealed that he was initially accused of attempting to score cheap political points for doing the right thing in offsetting the backlog...

Sampson Flags Off Construction Of Medical Facilities, Boosts Education

19.09.2025

…monarch, community leaders hail Senator for reactivating electricity. Senator Ekong Sampson, representing Akwa Ibom South in the National Assembly, has flagged off the construction of two major medical facilities in the Senatorial District. The projects are sited at Immanuel Hospital, Eket, and General Hospital, Ikot Abasi. While in Eket, the Lawmaker also commissioned an ICT/CBT...

Stakeholders Urge NASS To Pass Environmental, Social, Health Impact Assessment Bill

19.09.2025

The Global Initiative for Food Security and Ecosystem Preservation (GIFSEP) has urged the National Assembly to swiftly pass the Environmental, Social and Health Impact Assessment (ESHIA) Bill, 2025, to enhance environmental protection in Nigeria. The Executive Director, Global Initiative for Food Security and Ecosystem Preservation (GIFSEP), David Terungwa, made the call in his address at...

Adamawa Govt Collaborates With UNICEF To Establish 60 Learning Centres

19.09.2025

As the Global Partnership for Education (GPE) sponsored programmes implemented by the Adamawa State Government in collaboration with the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) wind down, no fewer than 60 learning centres have been established, strategically spread across different communities in the Lamede Local Government Area of the State. These centres are currently serving over...

Asuquo Archibong Speaks On Fubara Reinstatement

19.09.2025

Asuquo Archibong, the Presidential candidate of the defunct Nigeria for Democracy in the 2019 general election, has said that the emergency rule imposed on Rivers State was not about Governor Siminalayi Fubara. New Telegraph recalls that a state of emergency was declared in Rivers State on the 18th of March, due to conflict between Governor...

Otuaro Cautions PAP Foreign Scholarship Beneficiaries Against Abuse

19.09.2025

The Administrator of the Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP), Dr Dennis Otuaro, has strongly advised post-graduate foreign scholarship beneficiaries of the programme not to abuse the opportunity to further their studies. He gave this admonition at the orientation programme for the third batch of the foreign scholarship beneficiaries, who make up over 140, deployed for post-graduate...

Edo Govt Demolishes Four Houses, Arrests 20 Suspects

19.09.2025

The Edo State Government has intensified its ongoing war against cultism and kidnapping with the demolition of four houses belonging to suspected cultists and the arrest of twenty suspects in Etsako West Local Government Area of Edo State. The high-level security operation, codenamed “Operation Flush Out Cultists and Kidnappers”, was spearheaded by the Chief Security...

Benin Monarch Offers Royal Blessing To UBTH CMD, Ize-Iyamu

19.09.2025

The Oba of Benin, Omo N’Oba’ Edo, Uku Akpolokpolo, Ewuare II, has bestowed his royal blessings upon the newly appointed Chief Medical Director (CMD) of the University of Benin Teaching Hospital (UBTH), Professor Idia Enibokun Ize-Iyamu. The historic occasion took place on Thursday at the Oba’s Palace in Benin City, as Prof. Ize-Iyamu led the...

New Data Mapping Report Reveals Opportunities In Creative Sector

19.09.2025

The Federal Ministry of Art, Culture, Tourism and the Creative Economy has published the Creative Economy Data Mapping Report, a landmark study that provides a comprehensive overview of opportunities across Nigeria’s creative economy value chain. The report was unveiled at the Creative Industries Economic Coordination and Investment Summit organised by the British Council in Lagos...