A witness said the suspected smuggler ran his vehicle over the Customs official at Emir’s Palace road in Gumel town in a desperate move to escape arrest.
The Customs’ spokesperson for Kano/Jigawa area command, Isa Dan-Baba, confirmed the report to journalists on Tuesday. He identified the deceased as Azeez Tunde-Wasiu. He said the officer died while receiving treatment in Gumel, Jigawa State.
Mr Dan-Baba said the suspected smuggler also hit two other victims at Gidan Gawo quarters. They are identified as Usman Abdu, 32, and Adda’u Dahiru, 29, who were on a motorcycle.
They are currently receiving treatment at Gumel hospital.
The Customs officials were said to be in private car, Peugeot 406, without a registration number. They were pursuing the suspect, who was said to be in a Volkswagen Golf, from Sule Tankarkar road towards Gumel town.
After the Customs vehicle overtook the smuggler’s vehicle, an official hastily dropped off with an attempt to shoot. However, the suspect confronted the official, knocked him down and ran over him with the vehicle. The vehicle was suspected to be loaded with smuggled rice.
The witness told PREMIUM TIMES that the smuggled parboiled rice was allegedly coming from Niger Republic and was being conveyed to Kano State.
“The incident occurred at Gumel town around 11 a.m.,” he said.
“Many residents on motorcycles helped the officials, in an attempt to arrest the fleeing smuggler after they learnt that he hit and killed an official. However, the suspect escaped through a bushy Gagarawa road, after he generated cloudy dust, and ran through it.”
Rice smugglers are using Jigawa land borders with Niger Republic to smuggle parboiled rice into Nigeria.
The federal government had attributed the spate of smuggling into the country to the protocol of ECOWAS, being abused by neighbouring countries.
Posts
Thank you for reaching out to us. We are happy to receive your opinion and request. If you need advert or sponsored post, We’re excited you’re considering advertising or sponsoring a post on our blog. Your support is what keeps us going. With the current trend, it’s very obvious content marketing is the way to go. Banner advertising and trying to get customers through Google Adwords may get you customers but it has been proven beyond doubt that Content Marketing has more lasting benefits.
We offer majorly two types of advertising:
1. Sponsored Posts: If you are really interested in publishing a sponsored post or a press release, video content, advertorial or any other kind of sponsored post, then you are at the right place.
WHAT KIND OF SPONSORED POSTS DO WE ACCEPT?
Generally, a sponsored post can be any of the following:
Press release
Advertorial
Video content
Article
Interview
This kind of post is usually written to promote you or your business. However, we do prefer posts that naturally flow with the site’s general content. This means we can also promote artists, songs, cosmetic products and things that you love of all products or services.
DURATION & BONUSES
Every sponsored article will remain live on the site as long as this website exists. The duration is indefinite! Again, we will share your post on our social media channels and our email subscribers too will get to read your article. You’re exposing your article to our: Twitter followers, Facebook fans and other social networks.
We will also try as much as possible to optimize your post for search engines as well.
Submission of Materials : Sponsored post should be well written in English language and all materials must be delivered via electronic medium. All sponsored posts must be delivered via electronic version, either on disk or e-mail on Microsoft Word unless otherwise noted.
PRICING
The price largely depends on if you’re writing the content or we’re to do that. But if your are writing the content, it is $60 per article.
2. Banner Advertising: We also offer banner advertising in various sizes and of course, our prices are flexible. you may choose to for the weekly rate or simply buy your desired number of impressions.
Technical Details And Pricing
Banner Size 300 X 250 pixels : Appears on the home page and below all pages on the site.
Banner Size 728 X 90 pixels: Appears on the top right Corner of the homepage and all pages on the site.
Large rectangle Banner Size (336x280) : Appears on the home page and below all pages on the site.
Small square (200x200) : Appears on the right side of the home page and all pages on the site.
Half page (300x600) : Appears on the right side of the home page and all pages on the site.
Portrait (300x1050) : Appears on the right side of the home page and all pages on the site.
Billboard (970x250) : Appears on the home page.
Submission of Materials : Banner ads can be in jpeg, jpg and gif format. All materials must be deliverd via electronic medium. All ads must be delivered via electronic version, either on disk or e-mail in the ordered pixel dimensions unless otherwise noted.
For advertising offers, send an email with your name,company, website, country and advert or sponsored post you want to appear on our website to advert @ alexa. ng
Normally, we should respond within 48 hours.