The Niger Command of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) says it will go after peddlers of illicit drugs to sanitise the political process before the general elections in February. Mr Haruna Kwetishe, the NDLEA Commander in the state, made this known on Tuesday in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN)…
Kogi State government has rejected the reply by the Ohinoyi of Ebira land, Dr. Ado Ibrahim, to the query it issued to him for addressing himself as Attah Ebira instead of Ohinoyi of Ebiraland. In a letter signed by the Commissioner for Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs, Salami Deedat, the government argued that the monarch’s…
The insecurity situation in the nation has been a source of concern to Nigerians, and it seems there is no solution to the bitter events that colour the news media each week. On Sunday morning, terrorist abducted no fewer than 25 worshippers after they attacked a local church known as New Life for All Church,…
The National Salaries Incomes and Wages Commission says it has initiated process for the review of the National Minimum Wage. NSIWC’s Head of Public Affairs, Mr Emmanuel Njoku, said this in a statement on Sunday in Abuja. Njoku said as part of the process to review the minimum wage, which would be due in 2024,…
Barely two days after 16 persons died in a road accident in Mangu Local Government Area of Plateau State, two persons have again been killed while 52 others sustained injuries in a fresh road accident in the Jos North LGA of the state. The Public Enlightenment Officer of the Federal Road Safety Corps in the…
An Inspector of Police, Matthew Ahmen, who is a colleague of Drambi Vandi, who allegedly killed female lawyer Bolanle Raheem, told a Lagos State High Court sitting at the Tafawa Balewa Square on Monday that they were conducting a stop and search when the incident happened. He said Vandi who was the leader of their…
Following widespread complaints from many parts of the country, the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, yesterday, extended by seven days, the deadline for collection of Permanent Voter’s Cards, PVCs. The exercise will now end on January 29, instead of January 22 as earlier scheduled. Since the collection of the PVCs started, the polity has been…
The Kwara State Command of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps has arrested a 47-year-old suspect, Ganiyu Yusuf, for allegedly raping a housewife in Ilorin in June 2021. Yusuf allegedly broke into a house at Oloje area, Ilorin, through the roof on June 1, 2021, overpowered and raped the only female occupant of the…
