News Extra for 3rd March 2017

Ø  Buhari wades into Senate, Customs boss face-off

President Muhammadu Buhari has reportedly waded into the face-off between the Senate and the Comptroller General (CG) of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Col. Hameed Ali (rtd.), over the controversial ultimatum issued to car owners and dealers nationwide to pay the duties on their vehicles between March 13 and April 12, 2019, or risk having their cars impounded.

He did this to prevent a further escalation of the imbroglio brewing between the Senate and the NCS boss.

Thisday

Ø  The Naira on Tuesday sustained its gain against the dollar at the forex exchange market.

The Nigerian currency exchanged at N455 (buying rate), N457 (selling rate) at the parallel market, from the N455/460 it traded on Monday, while the Pound Sterling and the Euro closed at N547 and N480, respectively.

Breaking Times

Ø  N-Power Update: 149,669 Nigerian Graduates of the 200,000 Engaged and More

At the last count, 149, 669 Nigerian graduates of the 200,000 engaged by the Federal Government under the N-Power Volunteer Corps are now collecting their monthly stipends of N30,000 monthly having been physically verified and deployed across the 36 states and FCT.

NTA

Ø  Ekiti 2018: Zoning clouds emergence of Fayose’s successor

THE body language of Mr. Fayose is pointing towards the Southern Senatorial Zone, the only zone that is yet to produce a governor of the state in the Fourth Republic for his successor next year. The only time the South came close to the state house was in the old Ondo State, when Evangelist Bamidele Olumilua who hails from Ikere-Ekiti, in the south governed the state between 1992 and 1993.

Vanguard

Ø  N49m EFCC recovered at Kaduna Airport

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has released photographs of the N49m it intercepted at the Kaduna international airport.

EFCC had yesterday recovered the huge sum hidden in five sacks at the airport.

Daily Post