Pregnant Woman, Crippled Arrested for Drug Offenses

Pregnant Woman, Crippled Arrested for Drug Offenses

A 24-year old pregnant woman, Rabetu Abdulrasak, and a crippled, Shehu Adams were among the people arrested for various drug related offenses by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) in the course of last week. A statement on Sunday…

Modi Advocates for Conservation of Big Cats

Modi Advocates for Conservation of Big Cats

India’s Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi has advocated for the conservation of the big cats in order to prevent their extinction. The Prime Minister, in a mega international event held on Sunday at Mysuru, Karnataka, to commemorate 50 years of Project Tiger,…

Surinamese man arrested at PH airport with 9.9kg cocaine concealed in condoms

Surinamese man arrested at PH airport with 9.9kg cocaine concealed in condoms

A 34-year-old male South American from Suriname, Dadda Albert has been arrested by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, at the Port Harcourt International Airport, Rivers state for bringing into Nigeria 117 parcels of cocaine concealed in extra-large latex…

Zulum in Malam-Fatori, approves Armoured carriers, patrol vehicles for soldiers  

Zulum in Malam-Fatori, approves Armoured carriers, patrol vehicles for soldiers  

… Targets May for resettlement Borno State Governor, Babagana Umara Zulum, on Tuesday paid an assessment visit to Malam-Fatori, a former Boko Haram stronghold on the shores of the Lake Chad. Malam-Fatori is headquarters of Abadam Local Government Area (LGA) in northern…

Ogoni Youth Federation (OYF) Worldwide, commends ongoing clean-up of Ogoniland

Ogoni Youth Federation (OYF) Worldwide, commends ongoing clean-up of Ogoniland

Ogoni Youth Federation (OYF) Worldwide, an umbrella body of Ogoni youth in River States has commended the ongoing clean-up of Ogoniland. The association while giving an Award of Outstanding Performance to the Minister of Environment, Mohammed Abdullahi on Tuesday, said the award…

NDLEA, Customs sign MoU to Tackle Menace of Drug Trafficking

NDLEA, Customs sign MoU to Tackle Menace of Drug Trafficking

National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) and Nigerian Customs Service (NCS) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) aimed at working jointly at tackling the menace of drug trafficking in the country. The MoU aimed at sharing information and strategies that would…

NDLEA declares prophetess, celebrity couple, wanted over seized illicit drugs

NDLEA declares prophetess, celebrity couple, wanted over seized illicit drugs

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, has declared a Port Harcourt, Rivers state based popular prophetess and founder of Christ Power Adoration Ministries, Faith Ugochi and a celebrity couple: Igho Ubiribo and Danielle Allen, who are the arrowheads of an international…

Reuters’ Report of Abortion of 10,000 Pregnancies by Military, Should be Treated with a Pinch of Salt, Says Medical Director

Reuters’ Report of Abortion of 10,000 Pregnancies by Military, Should be Treated with a Pinch of Salt, Says Medical Director

The Medical Director of Yobe State University Teaching Hospital Damaturu, Dr. Baba Waru Goni has said that the Nigerian Military exhibits a high sense of responsibility and professionalism even in the face of provocation by the insurgents and that the report of…

UK, Brighter Futures roll out campaigns to tackle cybercrime, cultism in Nigeria

UK, Brighter Futures roll out campaigns to tackle cybercrime, cultism in Nigeria

The war against cyber crimes in the country gets a boost as the Brighter Futures programme, an initiative supported by the United Kingdom government has launched the Thrive Online campaign. The initiative, apart from the launch of efforts to curb the rising…

UNODC, JIC, Italy Commission Facility in Maiduguri to Boost War on Terrorism

UNODC, JIC, Italy Commission Facility in Maiduguri to Boost War on Terrorism

The Joint Investigation Centre (JIC) and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) with financial support from Italy have commissioned a new evidence storage facility in Maiduguri, the Borno State capital to boost the ongoing war on terrorism. A press…

NDLEA intercepts cocaine, meth going to Vietnam, Brazil, Italy

NDLEA intercepts cocaine, meth going to Vietnam, Brazil, Italy

Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have arrested a businessman, Molokwu Nwachukwu at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos for concealing 36 parcels of cocaine in different parts of his check-in bags, hand luggage and two pairs of slippers,…

UK trains NDLEA marine officers for effectiveness

UK trains NDLEA marine officers for effectiveness

No fewer than 35 officers of the Marine Command and Seaports Operations of the National Drugs Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), have undergone diverse trainings organised by the United Kingdom Home Office International Operations, HOIO, in recent weeks. According to a statement on…

UK trains NDLEA marine officers for effectiveness

UK trains NDLEA marine officers for effectiveness

No fewer than 35 officers of the Marine Command and Seaports Operations of the National Drugs Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), have undergone diverse trainings organised by the United Kingdom Home Office International Operations, HOIO, in recent weeks. According to a statement on…

Zulum Rewards 149 firemen with N100,000 each for Gallantry During Market Inferno

Zulum Rewards 149 firemen with N100,000 each for Gallantry During Market Inferno

Borno State Governor, Prof. Babagana Zulum has approved the release of N14.9 million as grants to about 149 firemen in the state. The governor gave the approval in appreciate of the gallantry at arresting the inferno at Gamboru Market in Maiduguri over…

NDLEA Arrests 2 Members of Afro-Europe Drug cartel, 9 others over drug trafficking

NDLEA Arrests 2 Members of Afro-Europe Drug cartel, 9 others over drug trafficking

Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have seized no fewer 1,205,260 pills of opioids in two interdiction operations in Kogi and Gombe states The anti-narcotics officers at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos also disrupted the activities of a…

Recruitment: NDLEA assures applicants of seamless online application

Recruitment: NDLEA assures applicants of seamless online application

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has assured candidates seeking to participate in its ongoing recruitment exercise that concerted efforts are being made to resolve challenges they are facing on the application portal with a view to make the process seamless…

NSCDC Introduces Robust Security Arrangement for Gubernatorial, State Assembly Elections

NSCDC Introduces Robust Security Arrangement for Gubernatorial, State Assembly Elections

The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) said it has put in place a robust security arrangement geared towards the success of the forthcoming Gubernatorial and State Assembly Elections A statement on Wednesday by the spokesman of the NSCDC, Olusola Odumosu…

Opposition Using Old, Doctored Videos To Blackmail Soludo, Aburime insists

Opposition Using Old, Doctored Videos To Blackmail Soludo, Aburime insists

Anambra State Governor, Prof. Chukwuma Soludo has accused members of the opposition party of using both old and doctored videos to blackmail him. The Governor who spoke through his Press Secretary, Comrade Christian Aburime was reacting to two videos currently trending on…

Ex-Boko Haram fighter, traditional ruler, 35 others arrested for drug trafficking

Ex-Boko Haram fighter, traditional ruler, 35 others arrested for drug trafficking

A rehabilitated ex-fighter of Boko Haram terror group, Alayi Madu and the traditional ruler of Kajola, a border community between Ondo and Edo states, Baale Akinola Adebayo are among 37 persons arrested over 2.2 tonnes of illicit drugs seized by operatives of…

NSCDC Smashes Fake Currency Syndicates

NSCDC Smashes Fake Currency Syndicates

Operatives of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) have smashed two syndicates that specialize i criminal conspiracy, cheating, obtaining by trick (OBT) and production/distribution of counterfeited US Dollars (USD) and new Naira notes into the society. A statement on Friday…

Slain fishermen: Zulum visits, supports bereaved families in Dikwa

Slain fishermen: Zulum visits, supports bereaved families in Dikwa

Borno State Governor, Babagana Umara Zulum, yesterday (Friday) paid visits to families of over 30 fishermen killed by Boko Haram insurgents on Wednesday at Mukdolo village in Ngala Local Government Area (LGA), some kilometers away from Dikwa. Zulum was in Dikwa town…

NDLEA Storms Edo forest, Destroys 7,286kgs Skunk After Gun Duel

NDLEA Storms Edo forest, Destroys 7,286kgs Skunk After Gun Duel

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have stormed the Ujiogba Forest Reserve in Esan West local government area of Edo State where they destroyed 7,286 kilogrammes (72.86 tons) of warehoused skunk and five hectares of its plantation. A statement on Thursday…

2023: Conduct Yourselves with Dignity, Love, Peace ***Online Publishers Admonishes Nigerians

2023: Conduct Yourselves with Dignity, Love, Peace ***Online Publishers Admonishes Nigerians

ASABA/Nigeria: Nigerians, especially Deltans have been called see the forthcoming elections in the country, especially the presidential election as that of one family, and they need to conduct themselves with dignity, love and peace, during and after the election. The Delta Online…

2023 Election: We Will Ensure Security of Corps Members-NSCDC CG

2023 Election: We Will Ensure Security of Corps Members-NSCDC CG

The Commandant General of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), Dr Ahmed Audi has expressed the readiness of the Corps to protect members of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), INEC officials and election materials to be deployed for the…

NDLEA Arrests Church General Overseer, Theology Student over Dubai-bound meth, skunk<br>…Intercepts 1,430kgs Cannabis in LNG truck

NDLEA Arrests Church General Overseer, Theology Student over Dubai-bound meth, skunk
…Intercepts 1,430kgs Cannabis in LNG truck

Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, have arrested the Founder and General Overseer of Seraphic and Sabbath Assembly, Lagos, High Priest Nnodu Azuka; a student of Emmanuel College of Theology, Samanta, Ibadan, Udezuka Udoka and their freight agent, Oyoyo…

Elumelu Was Not Chased Away By Adonte Community …Too loved to be Chased Away by Any Community in Aniocha/Oshimili

Elumelu Was Not Chased Away By Adonte Community …Too loved to be Chased Away by Any Community in Aniocha/Oshimili

The attention of the Ndudi Elumelu Campaign Organization has been drawn to a misleading video and publication purporting that the Minority Leader of the House of Representatives, and our Principal, Rt. Hon. Ndudi Elumelu was chased out of Adonte, a community in…

UN, Diplomatic Community Restate Commitment to Nigeria’s Elections

UN, Diplomatic Community Restate Commitment to Nigeria’s Elections

The United Nations in Nigeria and members of the diplomatic community have restated their commitment to supporting Nigeria in ensuring peaceful, credible, and inclusive elections, even as concern was shown over the possible adverse effects on the forthcoming elections due to fuel…

Nigeria, India to Partner on Eradication of Use of Fake Nigerian Passports

Nigeria, India to Partner on Eradication of Use of Fake Nigerian Passports

The Hon Minister of Interior, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola has expressed the readiness of Nigerian government to cooperate with India on total eradication of fake Nigerian passports into India. Aregbesola gave this assurance in his office at the weekend while receiving the Indian…

2023 Election: ECOWAS, IPAC task political actors in South East, South-South on peaceful elections

2023 Election: ECOWAS, IPAC task political actors in South East, South-South on peaceful elections

Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Commission has called on all candidates and political parties in Nigeria, especially in the South East and South-South geological zones to more than ever before embrace peace and works towards the credible outcome of 2023…

2023 Elections: UN meets with Civil Society

2023 Elections: UN meets with Civil Society

As part of its commitment to supporting peaceful, credible, free and fair general elections in Nigeria, the United Nations convened a meeting to listen to and discuss civil society perspectives on the ongoing general election process. The meeting, attended by representatives of…

NSCDC Bags Outstanding Govt Agency Award …Assures of Election Security

NSCDC Bags Outstanding Govt Agency Award …Assures of Election Security

The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) has emerged as the best Leadership Government Agency of the year 2022. The Corps on Tuesday received the award during the 14th Edition of the Leadership Annual Conference and Awards, themed “Credible Elections and…

EU launches 2023 election observation

EU launches 2023 election observation

The Chief Observer European Union Election Observation mission for 2023 General Election, Mr. Barry Andrews has appeal to stakeholders to ensure that the upcoming elections are peaceful, free and fair. He also disclosed that 40 long term observers would be deployed by…

Resettlement: Zulum opens 300 houses

Resettlement: Zulum opens 300 houses

Borno State Governor, Prof. Babagana Zulum on Monday commissioned 300 units of resettlement houses built for citizens affected by Boko Haram attacks in Rumirgo town of Askira-Uba Local Government Area of the state. The project is one of several housing interventions from…

PDP’ll secure Nigeria, grow our economy – Atiku

PDP’ll secure Nigeria, grow our economy – Atiku

Presidential Candidate of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, on Tuesday said if voted into office, his administration would change the security architecture in the country and grow the economy. He gave the assurance at the party’s Presidential Campaign in Delta…

FG Introduces Programmes to Reduce Air Pollution

FG Introduces Programmes to Reduce Air Pollution

The Federal Government has flagged off the National Generator Emission Control Programme (NGECP) and the National Vehicular Emission Control Programme (NVECP) in order to reduce air pollution in the country. Speaking at the official flag-off of the two programmes in Abuja on…

NDLEA intercepts cocaine, skunk consignments from Brazil, Canada<br>…Arrests blind grandpa, notorious leper in connection with drug

NDLEA intercepts cocaine, skunk consignments from Brazil, Canada
…Arrests blind grandpa, notorious leper in connection with drug

Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have thwarted attempts by drug cartels to bring126.95 kilogrammes of cocaine and skunk concealed in herbal tea packs and imported vehicles from Brazil and Canada into the country through the Akanu Ibiam International…

NDLEA Storms Edo Forests, Razes Warehouse Housing 317 tons of Cannabis

NDLEA Storms Edo Forests, Razes Warehouse Housing 317 tons of Cannabis

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has dealt a lethal blow on a cluster of cannabis syndicates operating in the Opuje forests of Edo state where massive warehouses and tents storing over 317,417 kilogrammes (317.4 metric tons) of the psychoactive substance…

2023 ‘ll be tougher for drug barons, cartels – Marwa *26,458 arrested; *3,733 jailed; 19,401 counselled, treated in 24 months

2023 ‘ll be tougher for drug barons, cartels – Marwa *26,458 arrested; *3,733 jailed; 19,401 counselled, treated in 24 months

Chairman/Chief Executive Officer of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, Brig. Gen. Mohamed Buba Marwa (Retd) has warned that unrepentant drug barons and cartels will face tougher time in 2023 if they fail to back out of the illicit drug business.Marwa…

EU Expresses Concern Over CSOs Low Compliance To Extant Law

EU Expresses Concern Over CSOs Low Compliance To Extant Law

The European Union (EU) has expressed concern over the low compliance of Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) on extant laws guiding the regulations of the system at the state and local levels in Nigeria. The concern was expressed on Monday under its Agents…

EU Expresses Concern Over CSOs Low Compliance To Extant Law

EU Expresses Concern Over CSOs Low Compliance To Extant Law

The European Union (EU) has expressed concern over the low compliance of Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) on extant laws guiding the regulations of the system at the state and local levels in Nigeria. The concern was expressed on Monday under its Agents…