The Nigerian Army troops codename ‘Operation SAFE HAVEN’ have uncovered riffle fabrication factory in Plateau State. The arms fabrication factory traced to a high ground in Pakachi Village, Mangu Local government Area of the State where a cache of arms and ammunition were recovered. A significant number of illicit firearms and related equipment were recovered...
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E mefiele: Buhari didn’t sign for $6.2m CBN withdrawal — Ex-SGF
A former Secretary to the Government of the federation during President Muhammadu administration, Boss Mustapha has indicted the suspended Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN Governor, Godwin Emefiele who is undergoing corruption trial preferred against gum by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC. On Tuesday, Mustapha who is second Prosecution Witness, PW2, in the ongoing...
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Edo LG chairman crackdown on NIMC official for alleged extortion
Sanity has been restored at the Oredo Local government Council’s National Identity Management Commission’s, NIMC official attached to the Council Secretariat. This followed the arrest of National National Identification Number, NIN by security agents for alleged extortion by MIMC workers. Mr Tom Obaseki, the Chairman of the Local government disclosed this at a joint Security...
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Nasarawa gov flags-off conditional N7,000 cash transfer programme
Governor Abdullahi Sule on Tuesday flagged-off seven Thousand Naira (N7000) cash transfer to 6,000 to each indigent person across the State. The (Forty Two Million Naira) N42, 000,000.00 cash transfer scheme which is one of the initiatives of Nasarawa State Social intervention office. The monthly cash transfer to beneficiaries, which is under the supervision of...
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Court convicts two smugglers for assaulting Nigeria Customs officers
A Federal High Court, sitting Abeokuta in Ogun State presided over by Justice Demi-Ajayi has convicted and sentenced two smugglers, Felarun Oluwasegun and Fakorede Jelili to two years imprisonment with hard labour without any option of fine by Court for assaulting Nigeria Customs officers. Felarun Oluwasegun and Fakorede Jelili were first arraigned in Court in...
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Police officer killed in Imo prison attack, gunmen set inmates free
Tragedy struck at the Nigerian Correctional Centre on Monday Okigwe Correctional Farm Settlement in Imo State, which is one of the States dominated by Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB in South Eastern part of Nigeria. The latest attack happened barely three years after gunmen unleashed terror at the Nigerian Correctional Centre in Owerri, the State...
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NDLEA arrests drug supplier to terrorists, pregnant lady in Anambra
A suspected supplier of illicit drugs to terrorists in Banki, a border region between Nigeria and Cameroon. Spokesman of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, Femi Babafemi disclosed this in a statement on Sunday. He said 42-year-old Ahmad Mohammed was arrested by NDLEA operatives on Friday 9th February at Bama check point. Babafemi said 20,000...
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Be of good cheer, Tinubu tells Nigerians amid AFCON final defeat
[7:03 am, 12/02/2024] +234 803 920 8001: President Bola Tinubu has urged Nigerians and supporters to be of good cheer despite Nigeria disappointing 2-1 defeat by Côte d’Ivoire on Sunday night at the 34th Africa Cup of Nations, AFCON final football march. Sebastian Haller scored the winner to complete a second half comeback for Ivory...
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BEDC official dies of electrocution near Edo police headquarters
It was a gory sight to behold when a yet-to-be identified Nigerian suspected to be a staff of Benin Electricity Distribution Company, BEDC reportedly died after suffering shock on Sunday afternoon in Oredo Local government Area of Edo State. The 35-year-old male victim accompanied by other Engineers, was carrying out maintenance work on electricity Cables...
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Alleged ‘land racketeer’ remanded in prison for alleged N25m scam
A Borno State High Court presided over by Justice Aisha Kumaliya has remanded Mohammed Umar Aji at the Nigeria Correctional Centre for alleged land fraud worth the sum of N25, 000,000.00 (Twenty Five Million Naira). The defendant was remanded after he pleaded not guilty to a one- count amended charge bordering on criminal misappropriation of...