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Assistant coach of the national basketball team D’Tigers, Aderemi Adewunmi, has revealed that more players especially foreign-based ones will join the team as they intensified preparation for the 2018 Commonwealth Games in Australia. The Kogi state-born coach, who made this known in Lagos on...

Again, the Nigeria Customs Service has re-introduced the restriction order on importation of rice through land borders across the country. Comptroller-General of Customs, Col. Hameed Ali (retd), gave the approval for the reversal of an earlier policy in October 2015 which allowed rice imports...

Cameroon has closed most of its markets along the border with north eastern Nigeria following the deadly attacks blamed on Boko Haram terrorists. Midjiyawa Bakaris, governor of Cameroon’s Far North region, said the markets were to remain closed until further notice during a televised speech on...

Premium Times reported that the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) in 2014 disclosed that Nigeria spent an average of N800 Billion annually on the importation of rice. Unofficial import receipts through the Cotonou corridor was not captured in the CBN figure. But the business of importing rice, a...

Nigeria Customs Comptroller-General, Col. Hameed Ali (retd) has said that the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has generated N747 billion as revenue in the last 10 months. The NCS chief who spoke yesterday at the Illela border post in Sokoto while addressing officers and men of the service in...