The Nigerian government has ratified the re-award of concession on the implementation of the Nigeria Customs Service Modernisation Project worth $3.1 billion to Messrs E. Customs HC Project Limited, a Chinese firm despite a restraining court order. The government previously awarded the project to Messrs Adani Mega Systems Limited/Webb Fontaine. The NCS Comptroller-General, Col. Hameed Ali (rtd) had explained that the NCS would generate a whopping revenue of $176 billion over the next 20 years through the implementation of e-Customs project.
Forty-eight-year-old Hashimu Galadima, a suspect and member of a four-man kidnap gang who were arrested by operatives of Intelligence Response Team (IRT)