In a Show of Magnanimity, Tinubu Orders Customs to Return Confiscated Food Items to Owners Insists they must be sold in Nigerian markets
Francis Sardauna in Katsina President Bola Tinubu has ordered
the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) to return food items that were confiscated at border communities
to owners on the condition that they would be sold in the Nigerian markets.
The Comptroller General of Customs, Adewale Adeniyi, disclosed this in Katsina yesterday during an
interface with residents of border communities in Kongolam and Mai’Adua border stations.
The Customs boss said President Continued on page 5
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Rattled By Abductions, North-west Govs Unite against Terrorists Bandits kidnap scores of students in Sokoto community FG vows to rescue abducted women, school children in Borno, Kaduna Chuks Okocha, Olawale Ajimotokan in Abuja, John Shiklam in Kaduna and Onuminya Innocent in Sokoto
Worried by the spate of abductions by bandits in the North-west, the state governors in the sub-region
said they have ignored their political differences and united against terrorists who have made the zone unsafe.
The governors made their positions known as suspected bandits yesterday kidnapped no fewer than 15 Tsangaya students
in the Gidan Bakuso area of Gada however vowed to rescue the Local Government Area (LGA) of scores of Internally Displaced Sokoto State. Continued on page 5 The federal government has
Leaders, Friends, Family Bid Wigwes Farewell as Banking Icon, Wife, Son, Laid to Rest Akpabio describes Herbert Wigwe as global citizen, iconic figure Fubara promises to immortalise late banker, sustain university Wigwe left a lasting legacy, says Tambuwal See story on page 5
A TIME OF GRIEF… L-R: The late Herbert Wigwe’s siblings: Stella Wigwe; Joyce Wigwe; Peggy Wigwe; Emeka Wigwe; Children: Hannah Herbert Wigwe; David Herbert Wigwe; Tochi Herbert Wigwe; Mrs. Ofovwe Aig-Imouhkuede; and her husband/ former Chief Executive Officer of Access Bank Plc, Mr. Aigboje Aig-Imoukhuede, at the combined funeral service of Herbert Wigwe, his wife, Chizoba; and son, Chizzy, in Isiokpo, Rivers State…yesterday.