–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Mike SOGBOLA: The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) and the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) have agreed to strengthen existing partnership and synergy between the two agencies in various areas of operations especially in…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Mike SOGBOLA: Igbo clerics, monarchs and elders under the aegis of South East Council of Traditional Rulers and Representatives of Igbo Archbishops and Bishops on peace and conflict resolution on Monday decried that Imo state have become…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Mike SOGBOLA: Chairman/Chief Executive Officer of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), Brig. Gen. Buba Marwa (Retd) has advised all those still involved in the illicit drug business to turn over a new leaf or risk…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Mike SOGBOLA: President Muhammadu Buhari has appointed Deputy Controller General (DCG) Samson Karebo as the new Acting Controller General of the Federal Fire Service. The Acting CG, DCG Samson Karebo, in his address, thanked the President for…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Mike SOGBOLA: Emmanuel Babalola, father of late Itunnu Babalola, a.k.a Bekky Paul, who was wrongfully jailed and died in Cote d’Ivoire prison, has rejected the autopsy report carried out on the body of his 24-year-old deceased daughter….
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Sylvester ILOBA: An indigenous investor, Delking Multiple Concepts Ltd has donated a Toyota Hilux Police Vehicle to Delta State Investments Development Agency (DIDA) in order to support their operations and enhance the marketing efforts of the Agency…..
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA)- From Crime Correspondent/AWKA: At least three persons, including two Policemen, an unidentified woman were on Tuesday evening killed by unknown gunmen, suspected to be cultists. A source said the gunmen blocked a red Toyota Corolla car being driven…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA)- From Crime Correspondent/NSUKWA: THE ENTIRE Nsukwa community in Aniocha South Local Government Area of Delta State was engulfed with wild jubilation in the early hours of today, Tuesday December 14, 2021, following the release of a popular Chief…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Mike SOGBOLA In ABUJA: Political leaders in West Africa and the Sahel have been asked to engage young people in ending violent extremism and terrorism in the area. The youth from 17 West African countries and Sahel,…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA):[PRESS RELEASE] THE Delta State Government through the ministry of Oil and Gas, has directed the management of Agip Oil Company Limited with Headquarters in Portharcout Rivers State and Heritage Energy Operational Services Limited at Lugards Avenue Ikoyi Lagos…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA): THE Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has raised an alarm that the growing activities of terrorists in the sub-region is a threat to West Africa integration and stability. Speaking at the opening of the 47th ordinary…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Our Crime CORRESPONDENT: THE Delta State Police Command is yet to confirm the recent alleged adoption of a high profile Chief and Frontline politician in Nsukwa, Aniocha South local government area of Delta State. Chief Michael Oloamiwe,…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Michael J. EKOKORUWE: THE Special Adviser to the Governor of Delta State, Senator Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa on peace building and conflict resolution, Chief Edwin Uzor, has resolved the leadership tussle crisis in Ellu kingdom, Isoko North local…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Mike SOGBOLA: THE National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has said that its preliminary findings showed that none of its officers assaulted an Air Peace Airline passenger, Ms. Abiri Oluwabusayo Khloe, at the departure gate of the…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –PRESS RELEASE: FORMER Military Head of State, General Abubakar Abdulsalami (rtd), has called on town planners to ensure access road to markets and other public places for easy access by emergency responders during emergencies. The former head of…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Editor’s DESK: THE DESOPADEC Indigenous Contractors Forum, has disclaimed an alleged planned protest by its members against the Delta State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission (DESOPADEC) on Monday, 30th November 2021. According to the Forum, the planned…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA)/MAIDUGURI – BORNO State Governor, Prof. Babagana Zulum has ordered nine armored personnel carriers for police operations in Malam-Fatori, Nigerian border town with Niger Republic. Malam-Fatori, which came under Boko Haram occupation in 2014, is headquarters of Abadam local…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA)- From Editor’s DESK: THE Minority Caucus in the House of Representatives had said that the report of the Lagos EndSARS judicial panel has clearly attested to an attempt by officials of the All Progressive Congress, APC, led Federal…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA)- From Mike SOGBOLA: THE United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and the Government of Canada has commenced the training of no less than 120 officers of the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) and National Agency for the…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA)- From Mike SOGBOLA: BORNO State Governor, Professor Babagana Zulum on Wednesday gave N20 million to the bereaved family of late Brig. Gen. Dzarma Zirkushu, who was killed in a battle between Nigerian Army and the terrorist group, Boko…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA): United States has called on both Lagos and Federal governments to respond to the report submitted by the Lagos State Judicial Panel of Inquiry on the #ENDSARS protest. The US Embassy in Nigeria in a statement on Tuesday…
In Nigeria, according to the 2018 Drug Use survey, there were 87,000 heroin users in the country-mostly injecting heroin users.
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA): THE Commandant General of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, Dr. Ahmed Audi has read out the riot act to personnel of the agency on duty in Anambra for the success of the gubernatorial election in state,…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –From Sunny DAVIDS: AHEAD of Saturday’s Governorship election in Anambra State, candidates contesting in the exercise have signed a peace accord committed to a peaceful democratic process. Our correspondent reports that the peace accord was organised by the…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA): THE Inter-Party Advisory Council of Nigeria Anambra State chapter (IPAC) has allegedly accused the APC candidate for November 6 Governorship election, Senator Andy Uba, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), the Army, the Police and the Directorate of…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA)- From Sunny DAVIDS: THE Anambra State Police Command says reports on alleged assassination of the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Anambra State is false and misleading. The Police Commissioner in the State, CP Echeng…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA): ONE of the major roads linking North East Nigeria to Cameroon and other countries in the Central African region has been reopened by Borno State Governor, Prof. Babagana Zulum in conjunction with the military authorities nine years after…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA): ON Sunday, the South East Council of Traditional Rulers and Christian Leaders urged the Federal Government to free Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, and to put an end to the deaths and…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA): NIGERIAN troops conducting Exercise Golden Dawn under Sector 3, on Sunday, foiled an attempt to kidnap the Catholic Bishop of Orlu Diocese, Most Reverend Augustine Ukwuoma. Our correspondent reports that the incident occurred at the Orlu Diocesan Catholic…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA): THE Independent Investigative Panel on allegations of human rights violations by the defunct Special Anti – Robbery Squad (SARS) and other units of the Nigerian Police at a resumed sitting on Tuesday listened to the argument of the…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA): THE Commandant General, Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), Ahmed Audi has strongly condemned the deadly attack on security operatives, innocent citizens and critical national assets and infrastructures in Zamfara State. Audi while calling for new approaches,…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA): THE Executive Secretary of the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), Tony Ojukwu has condemned the incident on Friday October 29 at Justice Mary Odili’s house as violation of her rights to privacy, integrity of her judicial personality, premises…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA): A Federal High Court in Lagos has granted the application by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, for the interim attachment of a vessel MV Cha Yanee Naree used to import 32.9 kilograms of cocaine into Nigeria…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA): THE Federal Government has inaugurated a vulnerability audit of the Nigerian Correctional Service (NCoS) custodial centres across the country to stem the incessant attacks on correctional facilities. The Minister of Interior, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, whilst inaugurating the audit…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA): THE Senate Committee on Interior has requested for increased budgetary allocation for the Ministry of Interior in order to perform it’s mandates and position it towards combating the present insecurity in the country. A statement by the spokesman…
–Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA): TWENTY thousand (20,000) members of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) are to be deployed towards a hitch-free election in Anambra State. Speaking in Abuja on Thursday during the Opening Ceremony of a 3-day train-the-trainers capacity…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA): THE National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) said it would be establishing a standard rehabilitation centre in each of the six geo-political zones to treat the high number of persons suffering drug addiction across the country. This was…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) –By Austen AKHAGBEME : THE fragile peace and the mutual suspicion that has led to the loudest silence, between the military and their civilian counterparts in a novel power- sharing sovereign transition council, headed by General Abder Fattah…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA: MINISTER of Interior, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, has vowed to pursue and recapture all inmates who escaped from the Abolongo, Oyo, Oyo State, Custodial Centre of the Nigeria Correctional Service (NCoS) on Friday night, 22 October, 2021 when the…
-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA: OPERATIVES of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have intercepted over 2,060 kilogrammes of assorted drugs including heroin, methamphetamine, cannabis, tramadol and rohypnol. The interceptions were made in operations at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA) Lagos…
