CUSTOMS FOILS ATTEMPT TO SMUGGLE ENDANGERED SPECIES INTO NIGERIA AT CALABAR BORDER. (PHOTOS). #PRESS RELEASE.

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 Customs Foils Attempt to Smuggle Endangered Species into Nigeria at Calabar Border Officers and Men of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Cross River/Calabar Free Trade Zone/Akwa Ibom Area Command, have intercepted a large consignment of illegal wildlife products at Calabar's Mfum/Ekok Joint Border Station.  Speaking at a press briefing in Calabar on Monday, 24 March 2025, the Customs Area Controller (CAC), Comptroller Chukwudi Ogbonna, disclosed that the items were intercepted from a traveller entering Nigeria from Cameroon during a routine baggage inspection at the border station on Wednesday, 12 March 2025.  "The individual was found in possession of 213 parrot heads, 29 packs of parrot feathers,128 African hornbill heads, 5 eagle heads, 1 pack of eagle feathers, 2 chimpanzee heads, 4 hands, and 4 legs. The suspect was arrested and detained, pending further investigation", the CAC stated.  Comptroller Ogbonna emphasised the severity of the crime, citing violation...
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LADOJA STORMS MAKINDE'S PRIVATE RESIDENCE AFTER EID-EL-FITRI PRAYERS. (PHOTO)

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 Ladoja storms Makinde’s private residence after Eid-el-Fitri prayers


In what seem a good turn of event in the State, the Otun Olubadan of Ibadanland, Oba Rasidi Ladoja on Sunday visited the Ikolaba private residence of Governor Seyi Makinde.

The former Governor, who was earlier at the Agodi Eid Prayer Ground, arrived the residence in company of the Senator representing Oyo South, Sharafadeen Alli and other aides.

Ladoja, whose presence at the residence was greeted by mixed reactions, as many looked in admiration and joy.

Dressed in white with the Olubadan staff of office behind him, Oba Ladoja was received was led in by the Director General (DG) Protocol to the Governor, Otunba Gboyega Badejo as the Personal Assistant to the Governor, Alhaji Akeem Azeez.

The joy and excitement that trail the arrival of the former governor was almost truncated when security operatives who manned the door from inside, unaware of the arrival of Oba Ladoja could not be reached to open the door for the monarch to gain entrance.

Security operatives at the door had shut the entrance door due to the large number of unexpected individuals trying to gain access into the parlour of the large expanse building where the Deputy Governor and other dignitaries who represented the state at the Eid-el-Fitri Prayer Ground, Agodi were seated.

The encouraged had moved from the Prayer ground to pay a visit on the Governor, to felicitates and offer prayers in the occasion of the Eid, a practice that has been established for years by the administration

While the monarch waited, the Chief Press Secretary to the Governor, Dr Sulaimon Olanrewaju and other aides at the scene were seen appealing to the former Governor as efforts was put to alert the security operative manning the door from the inside to open the door.

After waiting a while, the door was opened and Alhaji Akeem Azeem and Otunba Badejo were on hand to lead the former Governor and his entourage into the parlour of Governor where the Deputy Governor and other dignitaries were seated.

The visit is still ongoing as of the time of filing this report.

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