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May 7, 2021 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
It was revealed in a Press release by DSC. Hammed Bukoye Oloyede that on the 6th of May,2021, a group of smugglers armed with sophisticated weapons, attacked by shooting sporadically at Officers and Men of Nigeria Customs Service @CustomsNG
, Ogun I Command together with Army Personnel who went on information patrol to Oja-Odan, Yewa North of Ogun State.
During the evacuation of about Three Hundred and Twenty bags of foreign parboiled rice of 50kg each by the Patrol Team, Four Customs Operatives, One Soldier
May 7, 2021 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila has urged anti-graft agencies to organize capacity programs for legislators to ensure an effective fight against corruption in Nigeria.
Gbajabiamila made the call at a workshop organized for House Committee on Anti-Corruption by Konrad Adeneur Stiftung Foundation on Thursday in Abuja.
May 7, 2021 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
There was worry in parts of the Federal Capital Territory, on Thursday following reports of alleged looming attacks on parts of the FCT. #Abuja
There were also media reports that schools in the Bwari area of Abuja shut down on Wednesday over alleged arrival of truckloads of bandits in a neighbouring town, Sabon Wuse.
May 7, 2021 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
Abia Commissioner for Information, Chief Okiyi Kalu, has confirmed the abduction of some students of the Abia State University (ABSU), Uturu Okigwe by gunmen. #abiastate#ABSU
Kalu stated that government had yet to establish the number and identity of the affected students, adding that two students escaped from the attack.
May 6, 2021 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
The Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG) has confirmed the death of Dare Adeboye, the son of Pastor Enoch Adeboye. #Adeboye
A statement by the RCCG public relations department read,“It is with a deep and heartfelt sense of loss we announce the departure of our beloved son, brother, husband and father, Oluwadamilare Temitayo Adeboye. Who went to be with the Lord on the 4th of May, 2021,”
May 6, 2021 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
A video currently circulating on Twitter, courtesy of Sahara reporters, has caught the attention of the Nigeria Customs Service, alleging that Customs Personnel collect N5000 from smugglers. @CustomsNG
In a statement by Deputy National PRO of Customs, Timi Bomodi, he stated that, upon a review of said video, no Customs Personnel was sighted throughout nor evidence of collection of money in said video.
May 5, 2021 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Prof. Felicia Adebola Adedoyin, the author of Nigeria’s national pledge has passed away after a brief illness.
Prof. Adedoyin, who lectured at the University of Lagos and was a consultant with the United Nations, wrote the national pledge in 1976.
She was driven to write the pledge following questions by her children who had been used to reciting the Oath of Allegiance while in school in New York, and the State Pledge in Achimota School, Ghana.
May 5, 2021 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Adesuwa Okunbo Rhodes is our woman crush Wednesday. She is the Founder and Managing Partner of Aruwa Capital Management, one of the few women owned and led private equity funds in Africa. @AdesuwaOR#WCWednesday
Prior to founding Aruwa Capital, she was a Managing Partner of Syntaxis Capital Africa where she led transactions of more than $200 million.