Reuters Allegations: Civilians We Were Accused of Killing, Saved My Life When I was Shot by Boko Haram, Major tells NHRC Panel

Reuters Allegations: Civilians We Were Accused of Killing, Saved My Life When I was Shot by Boko Haram, Major tells NHRC Panel

A Major with the Nigeria Army, Kehinde Aboseh has put lie to the allegations of violations of human rights in the report of Reuters of the Nigerian Armed Forces’ counter-insurgency operations in the Northeast. Giving witness on Wednesday in Abuja at the…

DELTA COURT CONVICTS, SENTENCES TWO TO DEATH FOR CONSPIRACY, ARMED ROBBERY

DELTA COURT CONVICTS, SENTENCES TWO TO DEATH FOR CONSPIRACY, ARMED ROBBERY

-From Onoriode Etatsemi: The Effurun High Court I, in Uvwie Local Government Area of Delta State has convicted and sentenced two men, Emmanuel Ruekpe and Peter Okoro to death by hanging on two count charges of conspiracy and armed robbery. The Court…

Senate President Calls on Political Leaders to Imbibe Tenets of Democracy, Give Attention to Issues of Security in West Africa

Senate President Calls on Political Leaders to Imbibe Tenets of Democracy, Give Attention to Issues of Security in West Africa

The Senate President, Dr. Ahmad Lawan has said elected representatives must be focused and grow the collective ability of imbibing the tenets of democracy, calling for more attention on issues of security in the sub-region in order for development. Speaking at the…

NDLEA seizes 8,852 kgs illicit drugs consignment after half hour gun duel in Lagos

NDLEA seizes 8,852 kgs illicit drugs consignment after half hour gun duel in Lagos

Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, have seized a total of 8,852 kilogrammes (8.8 tons) of Canadian Loud, an imported synthetic strain of cannabis after a 30-minute gun fight with armed men who were escorting the consignment loaded in…

NCoS Promotes Officer for Gallantry During Kuje Jailbreak

NCoS Promotes Officer for Gallantry During Kuje Jailbreak

The Nigerian Correctional Service (NCoS) has promoted one of its officers for the gallantry he displayed during last year’s Kuje jail attack. The officer, James Benjamin was promoted from Assistant Superintendent of Corrections II to Assistant Superintendent of Corrections I. A statement…

Unknown Gunmen Kill 3 Policemen At Checkpoint In Anambra

Unknown Gunmen Kill 3 Policemen At Checkpoint In Anambra

-From SUNNY A. DAVID: It has been confirmed three policemen were killed on Thursday when unknown gunmen attacked a Police checkpoint at Umunze, in the Orumba South Local Government Area of Anambra State. The incident, which occured around 12 noon was said…

Shutdown Benue ethanol company appeals for reopening

Shutdown Benue ethanol company appeals for reopening

Shut ethanol- producing company, Pure Biotech Company Limited has appealed to the National Environmental Standards and Regulations Enforcement Agency (NESREA) to reopen its premise for operation after it installed a state-of-the-art Effluent Treatment Plant (ETP), to prevent the reoccurrence of wastewater contamination,…

Sudan: FG Gives Update on Evacuation of Nigerians

Sudan: FG Gives Update on Evacuation of Nigerians

The Federal Government has said that 637 Nigerian evacuated from troubled Sudan had arrived the identified safe borders at Aswan, Egypt and are undergoing necessary documentation and clearance before admission into the Egyptian territory for their eventual evacuation to Nigeria, with the…

Buhari Calls for strong interface between Africa, Diaspora

Buhari Calls for strong interface between Africa, Diaspora

President Muhammadu Buhari has called for a strong interface among Africans and their Diasporas around the world. Buhari, while speaking at the opening of the 2nd edition of Global African Diaspora Symposium, Abuja, 2023, with the theme “Building Stronger Connections Between Africa…

NDLEA Warns Skit Makers to Show Restraint, Responsibility, Decorum in Use of Paraphernalia of Law Enforcement Agencies

NDLEA Warns Skit Makers to Show Restraint, Responsibility, Decorum in Use of Paraphernalia of Law Enforcement Agencies

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has advised skit producers to show restraint, responsibility and decorum in the use of paraphernalia of law enforcement officers to avoid misconceptions and insinuations. The advice came on the heels of a trending video where…

Saudi-Arabia bound widower, divorcee on Lesser Hajj arrested at Lagos airport with 14.4kg cocaine

Saudi-Arabia bound widower, divorcee on Lesser Hajj arrested at Lagos airport with 14.4kg cocaine

Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have arrested at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos a widower, Ariyibi Olaseinde and a divorcee, Silifat Akanbi with 14.4 kilogrammes of cocaine concealed in lace and ankara fabrics while attempting to take…

Dabiri-Erewa Laments Situation in Sudan As Responsible for Non Evacuation of Nigerians

Dabiri-Erewa Laments Situation in Sudan As Responsible for Non Evacuation of Nigerians

The Chairman/CEO, Nigerians in Diaspora Commission (NIDCOM), Hon Abike Dabiri-Erewa has said the situation in Sudan was responsible for the inability to evacuate Nigerians trapped in the country presently engulfed in crisis. Dabiri-Erewa, in a statement on Friday by Gabriel Odu of…

Food system transformation implementation receives a boost as FG inaugurates steering c’tee

Food system transformation implementation receives a boost as FG inaugurates steering c’tee

Towards institutionalising Nigeria’s efforts at ensuring food system transformation that is sustainable, inclusive, and resilient, the Federal Government of Nigeria has inaugurated the Steering Committee on States’ implementation of the food systems transformation pathway. “Due diligence was undertaken in the identification of…

NESREA Seals Off Ethanol Plant for Discharging Pollutants into Water System

NESREA Seals Off Ethanol Plant for Discharging Pollutants into Water System

The National Environmental Standards and Regulations Enforcement Agency, NESREA and the Nigeria Police Force have sealed off Pure Bio-Tech Company Limited for contravening environmental law by discharging pollutants into public water system. A statement on Tuesday by the spokesperson of NESREA, Amaka…

Heavy rainstorm kills 6, injure others in Delta metropolis 

Heavy rainstorm kills 6, injure others in Delta metropolis 

-From Editor’s Desk Six persons are said to have lost their lives to rainstorm and windstorm recorded in Oko Community in Oshimili South Local Government Area of the state.  The incident was disclosed by Delta State Commissioner for Information, Mr Charles Aniagwu…

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…