By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), have smashed an international drug syndicate with networks in parts of Nigeria, South Africa and Thailand. No fewer than five members of the cartel were arrested in a two-weeks intelligence led operations in Lagos, Abia...
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The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) operatives on stop and search operation along Abuja-Abaji highway on Wednesday 1st May intercepted a 40-ft gas tanker marked RBC 77XG and upon a thorough search discovered 511 jumbo sacks of cannabis sativa weighing 4,752kg concealed in the gas tank compartment...
The National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA), has said Midwives are unsung heroes of the fight against maternal and infant mortality in the country. It said the tireless efforts of midwives in Nigeria had significantly contributed to reducing the alarming statistics of maternal and under-five mortality rates...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – The Air Components of Operations Hadin Kai and Whirl Punch in the North East and North Central have killed several terrorists in airstrikes in Borno and Niger states. The Nigerian Air Force (NAF) Director, Public Relations and Information, NAF, AVM Edward Gabkwet, on Sunday...
A civil rights activist and social critic, Sen. Shehu Sani, has said the nation has always dodged real issues affecting development in each constitutional amendment process. Sani said this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Sunday in Lagos. He said that...
Some power experts have commended Federal Government’s decision to unbundle the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN), saying this will improve access to electricity. They spoke in separate interviews with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Sunday in Lagos. NAN reports that the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC),...
The British High Commissioner in Nigeria, Dr Richard Montgomery, on Sunday said trade relations between Nigeria and the United Kingdom (UK) currently stands at about seven billion pounds sterling. Montgomery told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja that Nigeria and the UK signed a new agreement...
The Police Command in Ekiti has arrested a man who allegedly specialised in stealing phones from worship centres in Ayegbaju-Ekiti and Oye- Ekiti towns. Commissioner of Police, Ekiti command, Akinwale Adeniran, said that the suspect was arrested on Saturday after allegedly carting away seven phones, belonging to different...
The circus show being enacted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) in the matter of Alhaji Yahaya Bello, the immediate past governor of Kogi State is alarming. Like a masochist steeped in self-flagellation, the EFCC has been inflicting pains on itself and ipso facto, bringing opprobrium to itself....
Beyond a seeming cosmetic spruce-up, the new Federal Ministry of Arts, Culture and Creative Economy, FMACCE, actually benefits from a fundamental vision tweak and structural reconceptualization from which the impactful achievements it has recorded within a year flow. A baby of the “Renewed Hope Agenda” and rigorous visioning by...
The Nigeria Table Tennis Federation (NTTF) has named Quadri Aruna, Offiong Edem, Olajide Omotayo and Fatimo Bello as Nigeria’s flagbearers at the 2024 ITTF African Cup and Olympics Qualification Tournament. This is contained in a statement by NTTF obtained by the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Sunday...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – The National Examinations Council (NECO) has digitalized the recruitment process for Examination Supervisors and Assistant Supervisors for the Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) and the Senior School Certificate Examination (SSCE) Internal and External. The digitalization is to check sharp practices in the recruitment...
A vehicle traveling at high speed collided with a gate at the White House, leaving the driver dead, the U.S. Secret Service. “Shortly before 10:30 p.m. (1430 GMT) on May 4th,” the vehicle crashed into “an outer perimeter gate on the White House complex,” the federal law enforcement...
The United kingdom (UK) says only international students coming in for their Doctor of Philosophy.(PhD) studies were eligible to bring in dependents to the country. The British High Commissioner to Nigeria, Dr. Richard Montgomery, made this known in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on...
By JOY ADARA, Abuja – Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has filed a lawsuit against Nigeria’s governors and the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, Mr Nyesom Wike “over their failure to account for N5.9 trillion and $4.6 billion loans obtained by their states and the...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Babagana Zulum has won the Nigerian Union of Journalists’ (NUJ) Good Governance Award 2024 on education. At the event, which was tagged “NUJ Press Freedom and Governance Award”, 18 journalists and public servants who have distinguished themselves in their careers were...
A journalist with Daily Nigerian, Umar Audu, has been awarded the Anyim Ude Prize with a sum of one million Naira as the Best Investigative Reporter of the Year by the Nigerian Union of Journalists (NUJ). The recognition was one of the award categories organised by the NUJ...
By EMMANUEL KUJE, Abuja – The Nigerian National Committee of the International Press Institute (IPI Nigeria) has again raised the alarm over the safety of journalists in the country. This follows the report of the abduction of Daniel Ojukwu, a journalist with the Foundation for Investigative Journalism (FIJ)....
The Nigerian Police Force, Zone 2 Command headquarters at Onikan, has commenced investigations into an alleged land grab, malicious damage, encroachment, trespass and threat to life, in what has signposted one of the biggest land-grabbing deals in Okegun-Odofin via Elerangbe area on the outskirts of Lagos in Ibeju-Lekki Local...
“One of the shrewdest ways for human predators to conquer their stronger victims is to convince them steadily with propaganda that they are still free.” N. A. Scott, American author. Every human being currently living on earth came to this world and saw the United States of America posing as...