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Clearing agents to FG: Increase age limit of imported vehicles to 15 years

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Clearing agents have asked the federal government to increase the age limit of vehicles coming into the country to 15 years.

Kayode Farinto, acting national president of the Association of Nigerian Licensed Customs Agents (ANLCA), said this in a felicitation message to Muslims on this year’s Eid-el Kabir celebration.

The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) had recently reduced the age limit of imported vehicles from 15 years to 12 years, warning that any vehicle older than 12 years shall be impounded.

In the statement, Farinto also said the country’s automotive policy should be reviewed.

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“The age limit on imported vehicles needs to be reviewed to at least 15 years from the current 12 years. The entire auto policy is a scam that has continued to enrich a few individual Nigerians at the detriment of our economy,” the statement reads.

“With the introduction in the last 10 years or more, we are unable to produce ordinary radiator, meanwhile few people are smiling to the banks with our money under the guise of being local assemblers and manufacturers. It is high time we revised this policy.”

Farinto further emphasised the need for the federal government to have a consistent policy in the maritime industry, adding that frequent changing of transportation ministers is detrimental to stakeholders’ businesses.

“This trial and error of the government must be stopped forthwith, just when we thought there is eureka in the transportation ministry, the government decide to change the minister to bring a new person that will start learning and commence visitation in the next three months,” the statement adds.

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“We are stagnant and not really moving forward with these retrogressive steps every time and it is encouraging neocolonialism.

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“The federal government in line with international best practices needs to reorganise and reorientate the management of Nigeria Customs Service from the present moribund one.

“The present one has continually brought confusion to the trading community with her high-handedness, without control and checks to the extent that the federal ministry of finance has lost her supervisory role, hence the high level of non-professionalism of the service to the nation.”

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AIFF 2023: Organisers call for submissions, set June 30 deadline

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Orgnaisers of the Abuja International Film Festival (AIFF) have called for entries ahead of the 20th edition of the film fest.

The Abuja International Film Festival is an annual film festival that offers a contemporary and liberal platform for filmmakers from around the world to exhibit their work.

AIFF accepts entries in the following genres: Features, Shorts, Documentary, Experimental, Student, and Animation films.

The Festival is scheduled to hold from October 30th to November 3rd, 2023, in Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory.

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Last year, ‘Rule No. 1’ emerged overall winning film and ‘Dirty Space’ and ‘My Juju’ came second and third, respectively.

Interested filmmakers are enjoined to submit their entries at www.filmfreeway.com/ABUJAINTERNATIONALFILMFESTIVAL

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I almost died before my music blew up – Rapper, Odumodublvck

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Rising Nigerian hip-hop artiste, Tochukwu Ojogwu, popularly known as Odumodublvck, has recounted how God used Grammy award-winning singer, Wizkid to signal to him that he would be a star.

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The ‘Declan Rice’ crooner said he was just discharged from hospital after a major surgery in 2022 and friends called to inform him that Wizkid co-signed his song ‘Picanto’ which featured Zlatan Ibile.

He said Wizkid sharing his song on social media was the sign God used to tell him that he would be successful.

Odumodublvck revealed this on the latest episode of the Body & Soul podcast hosted by singer, Joeboy.

He said, “You can hear the way I’m talking? It’s not because of these [teeth] grills, it’s because I did one operation [surgery]. I almost died but God kept me here right now. And the fact that God saved me, everything that was happening after that was not surprising.

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“Ask my guys, I was eating baby food for two weeks. Apart from that, there were like sixteen stitches in my mouth, bro. The day Wizkid posted my stuff was the day I was being discharged from hospital.

“I woke up in the morning, I saw a message at 7 am, I saw Machala…And I checked my Instagram, everybody was sending me that Wizkid posted ‘Picanto’. And that was like, the first thing that God used to tell me that, yo, I’m with you, everything that is going to be happening from here onwards, it’s going to be more than what eyes have seen, ears have heard.”

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Aca-A-Thon: Ekiti lecturer set to lecture for 150 hours to break Guinness World Record

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News coming in says that a lecturer from Ekiti has joined the bandwagon as gets ready to lecture for 150 hours to break a record.

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This new development comes a few hours after Guinness World Record GWR officially announced that Hilda Baci is now the holder of the longest cooking record breaker.

Artwork has been shared by the Federal University where the lecturer who is a computer science lecturer at the Federal University has disclosed he was going to break a record by lecturing for 150 hours, which will serve as the longest duration of lecturing.

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“The computer science lecturer at Federal University, Oye-Ekiti is organizing the ACA-A-THON event with the aim of surpassing the Guinness World Record for the longest duration of lecturing, which is currently set at 150 hours.”

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