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http://ift.tt/2p2ljWT Nigerian Ports Authority • Agencies Kick, Reluctant To Exit • Stakeholders Chart Path To Smooth Implementation As the seven agencies ordered to vacate the nation’s seaports reluctantly quit, importers and clearing agents have heaved a sigh of relief over the ended regime of multiple charges and touting.    The Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA), on Wednesday, ordered seven agencies out of the ports while another seven received the nod to stay on. The development is a direct fallout of the Executive Order on the ease of doing business at the seaports signed recently by the acting President, Yemi Osinbajo. Managing Director of NPA, Hadiza Bala Usman, listed the approved agencies as NPA, Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA), Department of State Security (DSS), Nigeria Police Force (NPF), Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS) and the Ports Health.    The Guardian’s investigations reveale...

http://ift.tt/2qTqBAs Real Madrid’s Portuguese striker Cristiano Ronaldo celebrates next to the trophy after Real Madrid won the UEFA Champions League final football match between Juventus and Real Madrid at The Principality Stadium in Cardiff, south Wales, on June 3, 2017. JAVIER SORIANO / AFP Cristiano Ronaldo said he had no intention of slowing down after spearheading a 4-1 victory over Juventus that made Real Madrid the first team to retain the UEFA Champions League. Ronaldo’s double in Saturday’s final at Cardiff’s Principality Stadium, allied to goals by Casemiro and Marco Asensio, earned him a fourth Champions League win and gave Madrid their third in four years and 12th in total. Ronaldo, 32, has now scored 600 career goals for club and country, including 105 in the Champions League, and has finished as the top scorer in the competition for the last five seasons. “I think people don’t have words to criticise, because the numbers don’t lie,” he told reporters after r...

http://ift.tt/2qMDPPX Major Hamza Al-Mustapha (retd), former Chief Security Officer to the late Head of State, General Sani Abacha, on Saturday disclosed that his book, which will soon be made public will expose how MKO Abiola was killed Major Hamza Al-Mustapha (retd), former Chief Security Officer to the late Head of State, General Sani Abacha, on Saturday disclosed that his book, which will soon be made public will expose how the winner of the acclaimed June 12, 1993 Presidential election, Bashorun Moshood Kashimawo Abiola was killed. He said he had finished work on the three-volume book that will expose the conspiracy and those who perpetrated the heinous act. The former security officer said he was detained for 15 years in Lagos prison because he was in possession of videocassette that captured the conspiracy in Aso Rock, Abuja. He said it was unfortunate that his “persecutors “ deceived Nigerians that he was being prosecuted for alleged killing of Mrs. Kudirat Abiola, wh...

http://ift.tt/2qjL6aF The out-going Theatre Commander of Operation Lafiya Dole, Maj.-Gen. Lucky Irabor, told journalists in Maiduguri during a farewell visit by Correspondents’ Chapel of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) that the military rounded up the suspects who infiltrated several IDP camps. • 50% of sufferers are unaware, at higher risk of kidney failure, others • WHO data show only five per cent of deaths in Africa have recorded cause The Nigerian Army yesterday said it had arrested about 126 suspected Boko Haram terrorists at the Internally-Displaced Persons (IDPs) camp in Damboa, Borno State.It said one of the suspects was with identity (ID) card of a soldier killed by suspected insurgents in a recent attack at Sabon-Gari community of the state. The out-going Theatre Commander of Operation Lafiya Dole, Maj.-Gen. Lucky Irabor, told journalists in Maiduguri during a farewell visit by Correspondents’ Chapel of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) that the military r...

http://ift.tt/2pNhMMP Sole Administrator of Yaba LCDA, Bayo Adefuye, surrounded by students after the campaign against cult activities.<br /> Worried by the menace of cultism and street gangs, the Sole Administrator of Yaba Local Council Development Area (LCDA), Bayo Adefuye, has appealed to students to stay away from cult-related activities. He made the plea during the anti-cult campaign for selected public schools in the council. “It is a pity that some students engage in cult-related activities in order to give themselves false identities, but they end up living in perpetual regrets in the future. “A student, who has formed the habit of not staying in class while others are busy reading is a potential cult member. There are signs, which cult members look for when recruiting new members. Some of them are sagging, jerry-coils, piercing of nose by ladies, piercing of ears by men, body bleaching, fighting, tattooing, truancy, bullying, fighting among others,” he sai...