The Chairman, National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, Brig.-Gen. Buba Marwa (retd.) says the agency has seized more than 6,668 tonnes of illicit substances in two years. Marwa said this while responding to the request for partnership and deployment of more NDLEA personnel to all parts of Katsina by Governor Dikko Radda. This is contained in a statement by the Director, Media and Advocacy of the NDLEA, Mr Femi Babafemi, on Friday in Abuja. Marwa also said that more than 36,096 suspects had been arrested and more than 6,043 are already prosecuted and convicted within the same period. He noted that…
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President Bola Tinubu is currently in talks with former President Goodluck Jonathan at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. Jonathan who arrived at around noon was received by the President before they went into a closed-door meeting. Although no details have emerged from the meeting, it is likely connected to his work as Special Envoy of the Economic Community of West African States where he is leading mediation talks even as Mali remains under military rule following the August 2020 coup that ousted President Ibrahim Keita. In September 2023, the Malian military government announced that it would delay a…
Former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Godwin Emefiele, is currently being detained in the custody of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission. News correspondent can confirm that Emefiele, who is currently being interrogated at the National Headquarters of the anti-graft agency, Jabi, Abuja, was picked up by EFCC operatives Thursday night, less than an hour after he regained his freedom from the dungeon of the Department of State Services. An impeccable source revealed the development to our correspondent Friday morning, noting that the EFCC is probing Emefiele over alleged impropriety during his term as the head of the…
The Senate on Wednesday sworn in Amos Yohanna as the new Senator representing Adamawa North Senatorial District. The swearing-in was performed by the Deputy Senate President, Jibrin Barau, who presided over the plenary. Yohanna, a member of the Peoples Democratic Party replaces Abbo, who was sacked by the Appeal Court last week Monday. The Court of Appeal, Abuja had sacked Abbo, a member of the All Progressives Congress. Delivering judgment on Monday, the three-member panel presided over by Justice C.E. Nwosu-Iheme, ordered the Independent National Electoral Commission to issue a Certificate of Return to Yohanna as the duly elected lawmaker…
A driver, Chimobi Nwoko, has been at loggerheads with his boss, identified simply as Akazue, after he allegedly deceived him into donating one of his kidneys to his younger brother, Osinachi, and failed to fulfill his promise of compensating him for the donation. Nwoko, while narrating his ordeal on Tuesday, said Akazue promised to give him $20m, a house, and a driving job in the US, but since undergoing the kidney transplant at a popular hospital in Lagos State on December 22, 2018, Akazue has failed to honour his promises. Prior to undergoing the transplant, the aggrieved man said his…
Organised Labour has expressed dissatisfaction with the slow pace of implementation of the Memorandum of Understanding it signed with the Federal Government to avert its planned nationwide strike. The state chapters of the Nigeria Labour Congress and the Trade Union Congress said failure to implement the agreement before the October 30 deadline might leave them with no choice but to down tools, noting that they had commenced mobilisation of their members across the country. Asked on Tuesday whether Labour was satisfied with the implementation of the MoU, the Head of Information and Public Affairs of the NLC, Benson Upah, said,…
The Supreme Court has finally fixed Thursday, October 26, to deliver final judgements in the two surviving petitions challenging the legality or otherwise of the declaration of President Bola Tinubu as winner of the last presidential election. They are the petitions filed by the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Atiku Abubakar, and his counterpart in the Labour Party, LP, Peter Gregory Obi. The Supreme Court’s Director of the Press and Information, Dr Awemeri Festus Akande, confirmed the development on Wednesday. The Supreme Court has finally fixed Thursday, October 26, to deliver final judgements in the two surviving…
Date: 2023-OCT- 25 🎯TOPIC: THE MOUNTAIN OF THE LORD 📺 WATCH THE DEVOTION VIA THE LINK BELOW👇 https://youtu.be/BGHwKd2kF50?si=p5j7RCgIpMaCeErF ✝ TEXT: Micah 4:1-2(NKJV) 4:1. Now it shall come to pass in the latter days [That] the mountain of the LORD’s house Shall be established on the top of the mountains, And shall be exalted above the hills; And peoples shall flow to it. 4:2. Many nations shall come and say, “Come, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, To the house of the God of Jacob; He will teach us His ways, And we shall walk in…
The United States chapter of All Progressives Congress has warned leading opposition parties and critics of the current administration to be wary of court contempt when whipping up sentiments on the controversy surrounding President Bola Tinubu’s Chicago State University academic certificate. The warning is coming hours after the Chairman of the Supreme Court panel hearing the appeals against Tinubu’s election, Justice John Okoro, asked the Peoples Democratic Party standard bearer, Atiku Abubakar, to prove his allegation of certificate forgery leveled against the ex-Lagos State governor beyond a reasonable doubt. Okoro handed down the admonition during the hearing of the election…
The Federal Government on Tuesday introduced the Human Papillomavirus vaccine into the routine immunization system. The vaccination targets over seven million girls, which is the largest number in a single round of HPV vaccination in the African region. Correspondent reports that girls aged nine to 14 years will receive a single dose of the vaccine, which is highly efficacious in preventing infection with HPV types 16 and 18 that are known to cause at least 70 per cent of cervical cancers. In Nigeria, cervical cancer is the third most common cancer and the second most frequent cause of cancer deaths…