Investors Accuse Nigeria Customs of Strangulating Economic Activities within Tinapa FTZ
FeaturedSpecial Reports September 25, 2013
From: Diana Okon-Effiong (Calabar) A group of investors have alleged that there are deliberate decisions by the Comptroller General of Customs “to shut down genuine economic activities within Tinapa Free Trade Zone”. The group, made up of no fewer than 18 investors operating within Tinapa Business and Leisure Free... Read more
By Dianabasi Effiong Naval chiefs from no fewer than 10 African countries; the US; the UK; and other collaborating nations met recently at Tinapa Resort, Calabar, to strategies on ways to ensure a safe and secure maritime environment in the Gulf of Guinea (GOG). According to Vice Adm. Dele Ezeoba,... Read more
The second meeting of the Eminent Persons Group (EPG), a high level advisory body of internationally recognised persons brought together by Nigeria’s reformist Minister of Agriculture, Dr Akin Adesina to advise President Goodluck Jonathan on how to make the administration’s agricultural transformation agenda work, has ended in New York, United States of America. The... Read more
From a windowless room in a dilapidated Hong Kong high-rise, Ali Diallo sells Chinese electronics to retailers across Africa. The modest surroundings belie the multi-million dollar business the West African trader has built in the five years since he moved to the city. The 39-year-old from Guinea is part... Read more
Nigerian forces and members of Boko Haram clashed in a shoot out near the main residential compound for lawmakers in Abuja on Friday, state security services said, the first clash involving Islamist militants in the capital this year. A security team was searching for weapons after a tip-off from... Read more
The Baraje led- New PDP claims to have learnt of the plan to impeach the headships of the National Assembly headed by Senator David Mark and Speaker Aminu Tambuwal. The splinter PDP made this Known in statement signed by its National Publicity Secretary, Chief Eze Chukwuemeka Eze. According Chief Eze, “We... Read more
More than 150 Somali-owned shops have been looted in four days of xenophobic violence in South Africa’s coastal city of Port Elizabeth, police said Wednesday. The ransacking of the small grocery shops was sparked by the killing of a 19-year-old South African boy by a Somali shop owner following... Read more
The floor of Nigeria’s House of Representatives was turned into a battleground Wednesday afternoon when its members returned from a six-week vacation in response to a letter from the Kawu Baraje-led splinter group of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) requesting to visit the House. The bubble burst when members... Read more
A British court was shown footage on Wednesday of a palatial property built in Nigeria for jailed former governor James Ibori, complete with marble columns and a private gym, that offered a glimpse into the lifestyle of Nigeria’s ruling class. The opulent mansion staffed by cooks, maids and chauffeurs... Read more
I am of the view that if we make efforts to drop our pretense and tackle some of our development issues based on the realities of the situations on ground we would achieve more. But being a society with the intellectual articulation of Ostriches, we chose to bury our... Read more
