BY GODWIN OBI The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) says its operatives have again intercepted another consignment of 175,000 bottles of opioid imported from India. The is coming barely a week after seizing a shipment of 175,000 bottles of codeine-based syrup at the Port Harcourt Ports complex in Onne,Continue Reading
BY GODWIN OBI Troops and Special Forces of Operation Whirl Punch (OPWP) conducting special fighting patrols in the Kachia-Kajuru axis of Kaduna State have neutralized five bandits in Dantarau general area of Kajuru Local Government Area of the state. This was disclosed in a statement issued in Sunday by theContinue Reading
BY GODWIN OBI The National Chairman of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) Shehu Gabam has proposed N100,000 as a new minimum wage and called for the adjustment of “fuel subsidy”. “For me, what I think at this stage: the government should do something above N100,000,” he said on Channels Television’sContinue Reading
LATE ARCH. FERDINAND AGU, FORMER DG OF NMA (NOW NIMSA) The Director General of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA), Dr. Dayo Mobereola, has described the death of Architect Ferdinand Agu, former Director General of the defunct National Maritime Authority (NMA), as a rude shock. Reacting to Agu’sContinue Reading
BASHIR ADEWALE ADENIYI (MFR) CG OF NIGERIA CUSTOMS SERVICE The Comptroller-General of Customs, Bashir Adewale Adeniyi, on 7 June 2024, at the Nigeria Customs Command and Staff College, Gwagwalada, Abuja, charged officers who partook in rigorous training of Senior Course 10 to continue to consider themselves as ‘good’ ambassadors ofContinue Reading
BY GODWIN OBI President Bola Tinubu, on Saturday, named roads in the Guzape District Lot II of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) after two literary giants — Chinua Achebe and John Pepper Clark-Bekederemo. President Tinubu made this known at the inauguration of engineering infrastructure in Guzape District Lot II. InContinue Reading
BY GODWIN OBI Over 10 Nigerian teenage girls allegedly trafficked to Ghana for prostitution have been rescued, says the Chairperson of the Nigerians in Diaspora Commission (NIDCOM), Abike Dabiri-Erewa. The girls, all under the age of 18, were reportedly lured from Nigeria to Ghana by a nameless man who hasContinue Reading
BY GODWIN OBI The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has criticised the Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), George Akume, over his comment that the shutting down of the National Grid on Monday by the Organised Labour amounted to treasonable felony and economic sabotage. In a statement late FridayContinue Reading
BY GODWIN OBI The House of Representatives, on Thursday, passed a bill seeking to establish a new state in the southeastern region known as Orlu State. The bill, which passed its first reading, was sponsored by Ikeagwuonu Ugochinyere (Ideato North South, Imo State), along with other co-sponsoring lawmakers. School feedingContinue Reading
BY GODWIN OBI Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have arrested four intending pilgrims as they planned to ingest wraps of cocaine ahead of their flight on Wednesday. Narrating how the arrest was made, Director, Media, and Advocacy, NDLEA, Femi Babafemi, in a statement in Abuja onContinue Reading