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MMIA Customs Command generates N20.9 billion in 12 months

By Abubakar Yunus Abuja

The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA) Lagos Command, said it generated N20.9 billion between January and December 2022.

The revenue generation was an increase from the N19 billion the command earned in 2021.

A statement by Juliana Tomo, the Spokesman of the Command, said that the MMIA Customs had a revenue improvement of N1,849,747,265.85 when compared to the previous year.

Contributing factor: The statement quoted Mohammed Gidado, the Customs Area Controller (CAC) as saying that the revenue improvement was made possible due to an improved integrity of passengers’ in the declaration of goods and high level of compliance towards voluntary payment of courier parcels, passengers accompanied and unaccompanied baggage duty.

Besides, Gidado explained that during the December 2022 review, the command collected the sum of N1,758,585,087.54 as revenue generated from the command. The statement added:

“The Sum of N1,620,044,911.45 only was the revenue collected within same period in 2021. This simply implies that the command had an increased sum of N393,303,360.75 in 2022.

“The seamless travellers’ clearance procedure adopted by the command as initiated by the CAC over the period is worthwhile as evidenced in the Murtala Muhammed International Airport Command revenue collected from August to December 2022.”

The statement hinted that this increased performance demonstrates the effectiveness the strategies that were adopted last year. The Command expects an even better performance going forward. year. The Command expects an even better performance going forward.

Dangote Cement appoints new CEO

Dangote Cement Plc has named Arvind Pathak as the company’s new chief executive/managing director, the company said in a note posted on the Nigerian Exchange’s website on Thursday.

Mr Pathak will replace Frenchman Michel Puchercos, who will depart the cement maker at the end of February after three years at the helm.

The new CEO’s tenure begins on 1 March, the disclosure said.

Mr Pathak led India’s Birla Corporation, a cement producer, before he became the chief operating officer and deputy managing director of Dangote Cement.

He formerly served at Mumbai-based Associated Cement Company Limited as regional CEO and has experience spanning more than 30 years, which includes transforming businesses, spearheading crucial greenfield projects, as well as overseeing operations and plant maintenance.

The newly appointed CEO obtained a degree in Electrical Engineering from University of Roorkee now IIT Roorkee in 1980, and a postgraduate degree in Industrial Engineering and Management in 1982.

“The appointment of Mr Arvind Pathak will be included in the Agenda at the next Annual General Meeting for ratification by the shareholders in accordance with the Companies and Allied Matters Act”, Dangote Cement said.

“The Board would like to thank Mr Michel Puchercos for his commitment and contributions to the Board and wishes him well in his future endeavours while welcoming Mr Arvind Pathak back to the Dangote family and wishing him success in his new role.”

Dangote Cement, subSaharan Africa’s biggest cement company, has presence in ten countries and a production capacity of 51.6 million tonnes per year.

L-R: Angolan Ambassador to Nigeria Dr Eustaquio Januario Quibato, in a hand shake with Minister of State Petroleum Resources Chief Timipre Sylva, during a courtesy call on the minister, on Thursday, in Abuja

Mining agency: FG generated N14.59bn as revenue from licences in five years

By Abubakar Yunus Abuja

The federal government, through the Nigeria Mining Cadastre Office, says it generated N14.59 billion in five years (2018 to 2022).

Obadiah Nkom, directorgeneral of NMCO, said this at the 63rd session of the state house ministerial briefing, organised by the presidential communications team in Abuja.

He said the agency in 2018, 2019, and 2020, generated N1.55 billion, N2.38 billion, and N2.57 billion, respectively.

However, between 2021 and 2022, the agency’s revenue fell from N4.3 billion to N3.79 billion.

The director-general attributed the drop in revenue to changes in its internal operating system which temporarily affected inflows.

According to Nkom, 100 percent of the agency’s revenues are sent to the treasury single account of the federal government.

He added that the bulk of the revenue come from application, processing and annual service fees; constituting 50 percent of the annual revenue generated from the federal ministry of mines and steel development.

Nkom, who was recently reappointed by President Muhammadu Buhari for another period of four years, said the agency has revoked 3,000 titles, with plans to revoke more in 2023.

He said the mining licences are revoked on an ongoing basis and as such, the figures change rapidly.

“If you have not paid, we put it on the newspaper and then, we gazette it and we give you 30 days to ensure that you pay so that the serious ones will come and pay and those that are not serious, we will revoke it. We have revoked titles,” he said.

Explaining that the revocation was to ensure that mine fields are cleared for serious operators, Nkom said there are over 6,000 mineral title holders in Nigeria.

He added that some licences are expiring today, Thursday, January 19, 2023.

“There are over 6,000 licences. For now, if you are seeing 9,000 on the website and I told you that we have over 3,000 licences that are revoked,” the director-general said.

“We have just gazetted and we are going to implement that. When you look at that implementation and that 3,000 licences that are removed, we end up having 6,000.

“At the end of the day, from the little arithmetic I know, from over 9,000 and if you remove 3,000 revoked licences, you will be able to have over 6,000.”

Nkom also said there are restrictions and conditionalities for the issuance of coal mining licences in Nigeria.

He said the agency has to be very strategic, and also take into account current global issues.

“The Mining Cadastre Office does not just issue licences, we look at the future, issues of sustainability, maximising value, strategically ensuring Nigeria is properly managing her mineral wealth to achieve maximum economic value and diversification,” Nkom said.

“If you need any documents relating to the issuance or revocation of mining licences in Nigeria, the law permits the MCO to make it available.”

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By Stanley Onyekwere

In order to effectively mitigate the menace of Sexual and Gender Based Violence (SGBV), citizens, community leaders and healthcare workers are enjoined to encourage victims to always speak up and report such cases to relevant authorities.

In particular, in reporting cases, concern citizens are charged to make sure that they prevent such violence by also speaking up against people who are becoming violent in their environment.

This charge was handed down by a Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO), Abiodun Essiet Initiative for Girls (AEIG), yesterday, at a one day capacity workshop for health workers at various Primary Healthcare

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Centres (PHCs) and members of Ward Development Committee (WDC) in Gwagwalada and Kuje Area Councils of Abuja.

According to AEIG Project Officer, Josephine Emeghoghena, who represented the Founder of the NGO, disclosed that from the feedback they are getting, SGBV cases reported at PHCs, health workers handle them to the best of their ability, adding that with the training, they will do better in tackling the menace.

She said: “We want to build their capacity on how to effectively address SGBV. They will be enabled to know how to attend to victims who report cases to them, so as to properly handle such cases.

“The cardinal message is that we all, and not just the health workers alone should take SGBV cases seriously, by always reporting such whenever it takes place in our environment.

“We should act fast because lives are matter. If there are issues of spousal battery or rape, the person’s (victim’s) life is in danger. There is a tendency that there might be death. So, as concern citizens, we have to act quickly by reporting cases and make sure that we prevent such violence”.

Similarly, Chairman FCT Chapter of Ward Development Committee (WDC), Gerald Telah, noted when SGBV happen, they encourage people to report to the community leaders within the PHC facility, who will intervene for further necessary action.

He stressed the need for members of communities to be security conscious especially how they leave their wards, to ensure that they are not vulnerable to SGBV perpetrators.

He also explained that WDC performs oversight function of various primary healthcare centers in FCT and mobilises people to go and get PHCs services.

He adds: “We try to raise funds to assist the clinics to meet some basic needs as well as liaise between the clinics and relevant authorities either at the Local Government level or at the FCTA level”.

Participants and Facilitators of a one-day SGBV awareness and capacity building workshop organised by a Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO), Abiodun Essiet Initiative for Girls (AEIG), for health workers at various Primary Healthcare Centres (PHCs) and members of Ward Development Committee (WDC) in Gwagwalada and Kuje Area Councils of Abuja, yesterday.

Insecurity: Scout Association seeks permission to occupy 1,000 hectares ‘forestland’

By Stanley Onyekwere

The Scout Association of Nigeria (TSAN) has sought for permission to convert 1,000 hectares of sprawling forest along the Abuja-Kaduna Road, where people are being kidnapped as its national headquarters.

Making this request known yesterday, TSAN’s Chief Scout Commissioner, Hon. Dave Padopads-Awunah, noted that the criminality bedeviling the country would have been put under check if the federal government had incorporated scouting into its security plan.

He spoke at a press conference on the planned induction and decoration of President Muhammadu Buhari as National Patron of TSAN and an Ambassador of Messenger of Peace.

Padopads-Awunah said: “The Nigerian scouts are requesting 1,000 hectares of land. We have seen the place where people are being kidnapped in the forest along Abuja Airport-Kaduna Road. We are asking government to allocate that land to us as we will be building our National Towers which will be our scout headquarters.

“We shall also turn it into children amusement park and waterpark. We also want a wildlife park because as scouts, we don’t cage animals. Rather than a zoo, we believe in a wild-life for animals to exist”.

Also, TSAN, which presently boasts of three million members in Nigeria, decried the prevalence of drug addiction and organ harvesting among Nigerian youths.

The TSAN’s Chief Scout Commissioner, also lamented that the clear absence of the role of scouting in tailoring the minds of young people has caused inexplicable crisis of youth management including prostitution and human trafficking.

Describing drug abuse as a major cankerworm sinking the country, he noted that the situation had degenerated to the extent that some Nigerian youths now smoke grey hair which is wrapped and mixed with lizard faeces.

Furthermore, he added that the association is sensitising children to the danger of drugs across the country by using one child who is a scout to influence other children.