Cybersecurity: ICPC Chairman, Musa Aliyu to headline Realnews 13th anniversary lecture - ITREALMS

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The fight against financial crime and corruption in Africa will take center stage as Dr. Musa Adamu Aliyu, SAN, Chairman of the Independent Corrupt Practices and other Related Offences Commission (ICPC), is set to deliver the Realnews 13th Anniversary Lecture, reports ITREALMS.

The high-profile event, hosted by Realnews Magazine Online, will focus on the critical theme: “Cybersecurity, Illicit Financial Flows and Achieving Agenda 2063 in Africa.” 

PhotoSpeaks: Uplifting Youngsters cautions on illicit drugs, Inaolaji boosts community healthcare - ITREALMS

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PhotoSpeaks: Uplifting Youngsters cautions on illicit drugs, Inaolaji boosts community healthcare.

Realnews 11th anniversary lecture gets date, to focus on illicit funds threats - ITREALMS

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The management of Realnews Magazine and Publications Limited, publishers of Realnews Magazine Online, has announced the date for its 2023 annual lecture on 'The Threats of Illicit Funds Flow to the African Economy,' reports ITREALMS.

According to the publisher, Maureen Chigbo in a public statement available to ITREALMS, said the lecture comes up on Tuesday, November 7, 2023.

Eshew illicit drugs, NDLEA DG, urges youths - ITREALMS

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The Nigeria youths have been urged to avoid consumption of illicit drug substances in order not to compromise their bright future and jeopardizes their electoral choices, reports ITREALMS.

Chairman, National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) Brigdier-General Buba Marwa, made this call as the guest speaker at the 10th Anniversary Lecture of Realnews magazine and Publication Limited held at Sheraton Hotel, Ikeja-Lagos with the theme: Drug Abuse Among Youths in Africa: Implication for Nigerian Economy and 2023 Elections, last weekend.

Oyo leverages dry port, partners NAFDAC to rid state of illicit drugs – ITREALMS

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The Governor of Oyo State, Engineer Seyi Makinde has said they are ready to leverage the dry port, just as partnering with the National Agency for Foods, Drugs, Administration, and Control (NAFDAC) to rid the state of illicit drugs, reports ITREALMS.

Governor Makinde, who stated this while receiving the Director-General of NAFDAC, Prof Mrs. Mojisola Adeyeye in a courtesy visit to his office, said that NAFDAC was very crucial to the sustenance of sound health in the country.

A statement by the Chief Press Secretary to Governor Makinde, Mr. Taiwo Adisa, also indicated that the state government was already warming up to take full advantage of the Dry Port being constructed in Ibadan.

The Governor said: "Health is one of the pillars which this administration is resting on. We believe if there is security and a healthy body, we can go out to work and move from poverty to prosperity.”

"NAFDAC and this government will definitely be partners in progress. A couple of things have also happened here so far. In Oyo State, I believe in the next maybe a year or two, we will have our own dry port here. It is in our own interest and that of NAFDAC that we plan for expansion in the scope of activities for the state office here because of the headache of Apapa in Lagos,” he said.

The Governor said that his administration will assist NAFDAC to combat the menace of illicit, and substandard drugs across the State adding that the State would look into the requests tendered to him by the agency and act as appropriate.

“It was imperative for the state to support NAFDAC in order to ensure protection of lives of the people against illicit drugs and dangerous processed food,” he said.

He said that with the emergence of Dry Port in Ibadan, the work of the agency would be definitely needed.

“If somebody is coming from the Northern part of the country and he can pick his container here in Ibadan, why would he have to drive to Lagos. They will pick it from here and make a turnaround back to the Northern part of the country,” he said.

Further, he stated that now that the standard gauge rail line by the Federal Government has reached Ibadan, the state will make adequate use of the Dry Port located at Olorisa-Oko in Akinyele Local Government as according to him, people from the South East, South-South, the North and majority of South West states would not have reasons to go to Apapa in Lagos to clear their cargoes. 

Ayo Midele/Editor

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Nigeria Cultural Properties: FG reiterates fight on illicit trafficking

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The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, has reiterated the Federal Government willingness continue to fight against the illicit trafficking in Cultural Property, reports ITRealms.

Declaring open an exhibition of repatriated Nigerian artefacts in Lagos on Thursday, the Minister challenged the National Commission for Museums and Monuments (NCMM) to double its efforts in checking the illicit trade in cultural property.

''It is my wish that the NCMM will begin to look at means and opportunities to re-invigorate its export and clearance permits operations and even devise other methods of checking the illicit trafficking in cultural property.

''I was reliably told that there was the system of taking the pictures of all the objects leaving the country and the passport numbers of those exporting non-antiquities out of the country. I think the NCMM should go back into all of the systems that can be used to stop, check and stem the illicit trafficking in cultural property of Nigeria,'' he said.

Alhaji Mohammed also urged the NCMM, the Nigeria Customs Service and other law enforcement agencies to be more vigilant especially at the nation's sea ports, airports well as land borders, to check these abuses and illicit trade.

He thanked the Ambassadors and Cultural Attaches of the United States of America, France, Canada, Switzerland and South Africa, where the artifacts were intercepted, and appeal to them not to relent in their efforts in that regard.

''I must thank you the more for respecting the International Laws and in particular the respect of the Red-List Agreement of 1997 that has declared the export of these Nigerian cultural property illegal,'' the Minister said.

He gave the assurance that Nigeria will fully domesticate the provisions of the UNESCO 1970 Convention on the Means of Prohibiting and Preventing the Illicit Import, Export and Transfer of Cultural Property, which was ratified by Nigeria on 24 Jan. 1972 and came into force three months later.

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