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(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Oyo State Government says men of the Nigeria Custom Service raided Igangan and other parts of Ibarapa areas of the state on Friday night, not unknown gunmen. Mr Taiwo Adisa, the Chief Press Secretary to Gov. Seyi Makinde, said in a statement on Saturday in Ibadan, that this was contrary to the widely circulated report that unknown gunmen had, again, attacked the areas. Adisa said that the revelation was made known by Ibarapa Community leaders during a fact-finding meeting between a team of the state government and political/traditional leaders of the affected communitie...

He said the country must begin to move away from oil as it is neither the answer nor the question that would solve the country’s problem. “The solution to our problem is better and more efficient taxation of goods and services in our economy. The Governor said the tax net has captured only a minority of Nigeria, but there is a great opportunity to bring all data together including the National Driver’s License, Bank Verification Number (BVN) and National Identity Management System (NIMS) to get a database of adult Nigerians to achieve adequate taxation. He said that in the last one year...

Moldova ponders how remaining stocks of apples can be sold by June 2021 In March this year, according to the Custom Service of the Republic of Moldova, slightly more than 17,000 tons of apples were exported from the nation. This is less than half of the volume of exports  in the same month last year (almost 30,000 tons). In April 2020, the country sharply increased the exports of apples, at more than 39,000 tons. In May it was also high at almost 25,000 tons and in June fell to the off-season level; about 3,000 tons. Apparently, local exporting traders still hope in repeating last year’s s...

The hunch — or smell — paid off when officers searched a Polish-registered van that had arrived from France, notes a statement from Revenue. They found 37 separate packages of herbal cannabis “deeply concealed within panels of the van,” reports Revenue, which adds drug seizures are part of ongoing operations that target importation of illegal drugs. The van driver, a Polish national in in his 20s, has been detained under the Criminal Justice (Drug Trafficking) Act 1996 in connection with the find, according to Garda Síochána, the Republic of Ireland’s national police service. The...

Man arrested after €1.8 million worth of cannabis seized in Cork