The House of Representatives Committee on Customs Services has recommended a special grant of one hundred billion naira for the Nigerian Customs Service to improve its operations.
The recommendation was contained in a report of the committee submitted by its Chairman, Yakubu Dogara, at the plenary session.
The committee said as the second leading revenue generation agency, it believed that the grant would go a long way in improving the condition of service of Custom officials.
The report, which was a product of several months of public hearings held by the committee and stakeholders, said the grant would enable the Custom to complete all abandoned projects.
The grant, the committee said, would also be used by the NCS to provide modern offices and conducive working environment befitting its status as the nation’s second highest revenue earner.
The committee equally recommended that government should improve the criteria for future appointments of the Comptroller General of Customs by incorporating broad-based stake holders consultations.
The committee said external persons, no matter their level of experience and requisite qualifications, should be excluded from the process.
It also recommended that the federal government should abolish all punitive trade barriers in form of excessive tariffs and bans.
The committee called on the federal government to forward to the National Assembly a bill to repeal and re-enact the Customs and Excise Management Act 2004.
Friday, April 30, 2010
NDLEA insists on prosecuting nonagenarian for drug offence
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency has said the ninety-three-year-old man being prosecuted for drug offences would not be let off the hook.
Its Chairman,Ahmadu Giade, gave the assurance said the man identified as Jimoh Yerumo Babalola had already been charged to court in Ibadan, adding that nothing would be done to help him escape justice.
The man had on Wednesday appeared before Justice Jonathan Sharkarho at the Federal High Court, Ibadan, and the case has been adjourned to June twenty-eight for hearing.
He said the man was arrested for allegedly cultivating and dealing in cannabis Indian hemp, an offence punishable under the Agency Act.
Its Chairman,Ahmadu Giade, gave the assurance said the man identified as Jimoh Yerumo Babalola had already been charged to court in Ibadan, adding that nothing would be done to help him escape justice.
The man had on Wednesday appeared before Justice Jonathan Sharkarho at the Federal High Court, Ibadan, and the case has been adjourned to June twenty-eight for hearing.
He said the man was arrested for allegedly cultivating and dealing in cannabis Indian hemp, an offence punishable under the Agency Act.
Thursday, April 29, 2010
National Drug Law Enforcement Agency Finds Abandoned Cocaine
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency has announced that ten kilogram of concentrated cocaine is found abandoned at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Ikeja, by a drug cartel.
Its Head of Public Affairs, Mitchell Ofoyeju, said the substance concealed in seminar folders, and neatly packed in a travelling bag is worth one hundre million naira.
Ofoyeju said the drug is detected during the inward screening of passengers and luggage aboard a Turkish airline flight from Brazil on March twenty-three.
He said the agency also intercepted another bag containing fourteen point eight zero zero kilogram of cannabis being taken out of the country,which is abandoned at the airport.
National Drug Law Enforcement Agency Arrests Twenty-nine Drug Suspects in Cross River
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, has arrested twenty-nine drug suspects, seizing one hundred and seventy point forty kilogram of Indian Hemp and forty-eight point five gram of cocaine in Cross River between January and March this year.
The Agency said twenty-seven of the suspects are males while two are females, one of the suspects is a PortHarcourt-based peddler, apprehended in Ikom with three point five gram of cocaine.
Its Assistant Commander,Goddy Obainoke said the command made the highest seizure of drugs in February when fourteen suspects were caught with one hundred and forty-three point eighty kilogram of Indian hemp while nine suspects were arrested in March with ten kilogram of Indian hemp.
The Agency said twenty-seven of the suspects are males while two are females, one of the suspects is a PortHarcourt-based peddler, apprehended in Ikom with three point five gram of cocaine.
Its Assistant Commander,Goddy Obainoke said the command made the highest seizure of drugs in February when fourteen suspects were caught with one hundred and forty-three point eighty kilogram of Indian hemp while nine suspects were arrested in March with ten kilogram of Indian hemp.
ROAD SAFETY ARRESTS TWENTY MOTORCYCLIST
More than twenty thousand commercial motorcycle operators have been arrested in Lagos for refusal to use crash helmets last year.
Also Seven thousand violators were also arrested between January and April this year.
Federal Road Safety Commission Sector Commander,Jonas Agwu said the command would not relent in its enforcement of the order on the use of crash helmets by riders and passengers.
He said a new strategy in the campaign on the enforcement of the use of crash helmet had been devised through pulling all the units in the Mainland command into a squad.
Governor Babatunde Fashola last week endorsed all security agencies in the State such as Lagos State Traffic Management Authority, Vehicle Inspection Officers and the Police to join hands with the Commission to ensure the use of crash helmets.
Also Seven thousand violators were also arrested between January and April this year.
Federal Road Safety Commission Sector Commander,Jonas Agwu said the command would not relent in its enforcement of the order on the use of crash helmets by riders and passengers.
He said a new strategy in the campaign on the enforcement of the use of crash helmet had been devised through pulling all the units in the Mainland command into a squad.
Governor Babatunde Fashola last week endorsed all security agencies in the State such as Lagos State Traffic Management Authority, Vehicle Inspection Officers and the Police to join hands with the Commission to ensure the use of crash helmets.
Tuesday, April 20, 2010
LAGOS STATE PARTNER TO IMPLEMENT FAST TRACK COURT
Lagos State Government is partnering with the British Council’s Security, Justice and Growth Department to implement Fast Track Courts.
Chief Judge of Lagos, Justice Inumidun Akande, said this at a security, justice and growth learning programme organised by the British Council in Ikeja.
Akande said Fast Track Courts by the Lagos State judiciary facilitates speedy dispensation of commercial/investment cases within a period of eight months.
She said government was also collaborating with the department in implementing Automated Information System.
The chief judge who spoke through Justice Adegoke Okojie said government was collaborating with the department on Alternative Dispute Resolution mechanism which had been strengthened through the Lagos Multi Door Court House.
The Security, Justice and Growth National Programme Manager, Bob Arnot, said the group was aimed at introducing community policing as a key operating principle for justice, safety and security.
Chief Judge of Lagos, Justice Inumidun Akande, said this at a security, justice and growth learning programme organised by the British Council in Ikeja.
Akande said Fast Track Courts by the Lagos State judiciary facilitates speedy dispensation of commercial/investment cases within a period of eight months.
She said government was also collaborating with the department in implementing Automated Information System.
The chief judge who spoke through Justice Adegoke Okojie said government was collaborating with the department on Alternative Dispute Resolution mechanism which had been strengthened through the Lagos Multi Door Court House.
The Security, Justice and Growth National Programme Manager, Bob Arnot, said the group was aimed at introducing community policing as a key operating principle for justice, safety and security.
MAN DESCRIBES SON-IN-LAW AS BAD FRIEND.
An eighty-five year-old man, Olayiwola Adio, has described his eighty-six year-old son-in-law, Ganiu Ajetumobi, as a bad friend.
He accused Ajetumobi of deceiving his daughter, Modinat, into marriage.
Adio told a Mushin Customary Court in Lagos that his son-in-law betrayed their friendship when he promised to reconcile Modinat with her husband but rather took her as a wife.
Ajetumobi had petitioned the court asking for the dissolution of the marriage with thirty-three year-old Modinat on the ground that she was quarrelsome and always fighting.
Modinat, a frozen food seller in Mushin, Lagos, consented to the dissolution of the marriage, saying her husband married her unwillingly.
The Court President, Abayomi Ipaye accused the petitioner of misleading the court and adjourned the case to May five for further hearing.
He accused Ajetumobi of deceiving his daughter, Modinat, into marriage.
Adio told a Mushin Customary Court in Lagos that his son-in-law betrayed their friendship when he promised to reconcile Modinat with her husband but rather took her as a wife.
Ajetumobi had petitioned the court asking for the dissolution of the marriage with thirty-three year-old Modinat on the ground that she was quarrelsome and always fighting.
Modinat, a frozen food seller in Mushin, Lagos, consented to the dissolution of the marriage, saying her husband married her unwillingly.
The Court President, Abayomi Ipaye accused the petitioner of misleading the court and adjourned the case to May five for further hearing.
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