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Nigeria Customs moves to seize smuggled vehicles, prosecute owners

  (NAN) The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Thursday, said it would soon start impounding all vehicles smuggled into the country, especially through the land borders, not minding the age of the vehicles and would also prosecute the owners. The Comptroller-General of  of NCS, Retired Col. Hameed Ali, has therefore approved  one ...

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Volkswagen establishes new ‘Sub-Saharan Africa’ region with Thomas Schäfer as Head

Chairman and Managing Director of Volkswagen Group South Africa (VWSA),Thomas Schäfer, is to head up Volkswagen’s new region, the Sub-Saharan Africa region, as the Volkswagen brand appears to be going headlong with its market expansion programme and regionalisation strategy . With the creation of the new region, which is the ...

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All-New BMW 5 Series for SA national media launch

The BMW Group South Africa is set to unveil the seventh generation of the BMW 5 Series. The unveiling, according to Edward Makwana, the Group Product Communications Manager (PR/Media Relations Manager) at BMW Group South Africa and sub-Saharan Africa ,  is scheduled to hold with a two-day National Media Launch ...

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Senate President’s wife bemoans high rate of road crashes in Nigeria

  (NAN) Wife of the President of the Nigerian Senate, Mrs. Toyin Saraki , has expressed concern over the high number of road crashes in Nigeria in the last three years. Mrs. Saraki who is the chairperson of the Forum of Senators’ Wives said that it was disheartening that a ...

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Geonel Integrated Services: We acted on EFCC, Court’s instructions – Heritage Bank

Heritage Bank, a leading financial services provider in Nigeria, Wednesday, dismissed a media report currently trending online purporting that a company, Geonel Integrated Services Limited, which is a customer of the bank , had asked a court and the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN)  to  shut down its operations, describing ...

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FCA Emerges ‘The Most Improved Fleet Manufacturer’ at Fleet World Honours

Fiat Tipo As the preparations gear for the arrival of the FIAT brand in Nigeria gradually moves to its peak, Weststar Associates Limited , authorized General Distributor of Mercedes-Benz, Chrysler, Jeep, Dodge and Ram  in the country, said it is excited to announce  that ‘Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA)’ has been ...

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Don’t ban commercial motorcycles, Minister pleads as Lagos crushes 4,000

  Barely 24 hours after the Lagos State Government announced its decision to crush and recycle over 4,000 motorcycles locally called “Okada” impounded for contravening the State’s Traffic Law 2012, Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi,  has pleaded that motorcycles and tricycles should not be banned nationwide because doing so would affect ...

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Nigeria: FG completes repairs on Abuja-Kaduna road

The federal government of Nigeria on Tuesday inaugurated the Abuja-Kaduna road which was given an emergency facelift with the sum of N1.1 billion. Mr Babatunde Fashola, the Minister of Power, Works and Housing, who inaugurated the road, commended the contractor for completing the project on scheduled. He said the project ...

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