The presidency has dismissed a report by a Nigeria newspaper which claimed that the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) was planning to open its portal for the recruitment of 3,200 officers.
Bashir Ahmad, the personal assistant to the president on new media on Monday, December 16, in a tweet called on the public to be misled by the report on the recruitment.
The presidential aide noted that the story was first reported in April 2019, eight months ago. Ahmad stated that the customs service is not opening its portal for recruitment as claimed by the report.
Meanwhile, Sabo Nanono, Nigeria’s minister of agriculture and rural development, has disclosed that the federal government’s closure of the Nigerian border does not in any way breach the free trade agreement in the West African sub-region.
The minister said on Sunday, December 15, in Abuja. He said the measure was meant to protect the country and its citizens from the nefarious activities which take place at the borders.
Going further, he said the federal government was holding talks with the countries concerned to ensure that they kept to the terms of the free trade agreement.
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In another report, the federal government has fixed 2023 as the year Nigeria, as a top oil-producing nation in Africa and in the world, will stop the importation of petrol.
This came after Mele Kyari, the group managing director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) on Friday, December 13, signed the condensate refinery strategy programme front end engineering design, Channles TV reports.
Kyari explained that the strategy is aimed at delivering about 20 million litres of petrol upon the completion of the design.
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