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Apapa customs rakes in N1.2tn in 7 months
The Apapa Customs Command of the Nigerian Customs Service (NCS) has said it generated a total of N1.2 trillion as revenue between January and July 2024. The Customs Area Controller (CAC), Apapa Command, Comptroller Babatunde Olomu, disclosed this in a statement issued by the Public Relations Officer, Mr Usman Abubakar, in Lagos on Wednesday. Olumu said he was committed to…
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Fashola visits damaged Airport Road Flyover, order traders to vacate area
The Minister of Works and Housing, Mr Babatunde Fashola on Thursday gave artisans plying their trade along the burnt section of the Lagos Airport Road flyover two weeks to vacate the area. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the Flyover which spans the Apapa-Oshodi-Ojota-Oworonshoki Expressway project being reconstructed, was engulfed by fire when a petrol tanker burst into…
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Commuters to access Apapa in October
The Lagos State government says all roads and bridges under construction in Apapa, the nation’s port city, will be completed by October. Gov. Babajide Sanwo-Olu gave the assurance on Sunday during an inspection tour of roads and bridges under construction in the area. Sanwo-Olu said that the traffic gridlocks experienced in the axis would be cleared once the projects were…
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Boko Haram leader claims blast in Nigeria’s Lagos – AFP
Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau has claimed responsibility for two explosions on June 25 at a fuel depot in Lagos, Nigeria’s commercial hub, AFP reported on Sunday, which, if true, would be the first recorded attack on the city by the militants. “A bomb went off in Lagos. I ordered (the bomber) who went and detonated it,” Shekau said, according…
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