By Godwin Oritse THE restriction of access of Foreign Exchange (forex) on the importation of Stock Fish has affected both the export of the commodity from Norway tom Nigeria and Vice Visa. Speaking to Vanguard in Lagos during a tour of the Stock Fish market in Oyingbo, Lagos, Eivind Fjeldstad, Businsess Counsellor at the Royal Norwegian Embassy, Abuja, said that the Norwegian Government is very hopeful that the Government of Nigeria will remove stock fish from the list of commodities banned from access to official foreign exchange window because Nigeria is the biggest market for the Norwegian stock fish in Africa. Fjeldstad also said that the importation of stock fish is not in competition with local fish production in Nigeria adding that the commodity is also the cheapest source of protein in Nigeria. He explained that importers are being challenged by first of all sourcing Forex at a very exorbitant rate before placing order and this development has also brought abo...
By Manveena Suri, Vedika Sud, Sania Farooqui, Tara John, Sahar Akbarzai and Heather Chen, CNN Updated 2:18 AM EDT, Fri July 21, 2023 Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi condemned the video of two women being forced to walk naked by a group of men in the northeastern state of Manipur. Editor’s Note: This report includes details of sexual assaults and violence. CNN — A graphic video showing two women forced by a baying mob to walk naked in the northeastern Indian state of Manipur has sparked outrage after it emerged on social media and prompted the country’s leader Narendra Modi to break his silence on the months-long sectarian conflict tearing the state apart. The viral video depicts an incident from May 4, according to the Indigenous Tribal Leaders’ Forum (ITLF) but police only made arrests once the footage went online this week. Manipur Police described the incident on Twitter as “a case of abduction, gang rape and murder” on Wednesday. Officials said Thursday that fo...
Following the killing of a soldier by policemen which led to the burning of Ogijo Police Station by soldiers, the Ogun State Police Public Relations Officer, Abimbola Oyeyemi, and his counterpart in Lagos state, Benjamin Hundeyin, have issued conflicting statements. It was reported that some policemen stabbed an unidentified soldier to death in Ikorodu, Lagos State. The incident happened at the border town of Ogijo, between Ogun State and Lagos State. Reports have it that the policemen ran away to Ogijo Police Station when they discovered the victim was an officer. Minutes after, it was reported that soldiers stormed the station and burnt it down. However, reacting to the incident, Ogun State Police Public Relations Officer, Abimbola Oyeyemi averred that: “That is a misconception, a mobile man serving in Lagos was the one that killed the soldier. I don’t know why the soldiers will go and start burning Ogijo Police Station when the issue happened in Odogunyan, which is in Lag...
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