•Alake The Minister of Solid Mineral, Mr Dele Alake, has alleged that powerful Nigerians involved in illegal mining were responsible for other criminal activities and involved in sponsoring banditry and terrorism in the country. Alake said this when he appeared before the House of Representatives Committee on Solid Minerals for the 2024 budget...
•New Lagos CP Adegoke The Inspector General of Police, Kayode Egbetokun, has ordered the posting of Commissioner of Police Fayoade Adegoke Mustapha to the Lagos State Police Command. Adegoke, who just graduated from the National Institute of Policy and Strategic Studies (NIPSS), Kuru, Jos, is to take over from DCP Waheed Ayilara, who had heade...
Men of the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control have arrested 10 suspects over adulterated beverages as the agency shut down the Cemetery Market in Aba, Abia State. The Director, South-East Zone of NAFDAC, Martins Iluyomade, disclosed this to journalists today during a raid of the market which began on Monday. He [&hell...
•Gunmen Gunmen today ambushed a convoy of Dawood workers along the Ahoada/Abua road along the East-West Road in Rivers State, shooting dead four soldiers and two drivers. A security source, who confirmed the development, said the suspected kidnappers ambushed a team of expatriates being escorted by troops of 5 Bn along road Ahoada- Obua in [&h...
•The culprit The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has condemned a female officer caught in a viral video demanding a bribe from a passenger at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Lagos. The unidentified officer was seen in the less than two-minute clip requesting a sum of N5,000 while clutching the trolley containing the passenger’s lug...
Gunmen on Saturday night abducted twenty-three residents in Dei-Dei community under Bwari area council in the Federal Capital Territory. The victims, it was learnt, were taken from their apartments within a single compound occupied by tenants, between 8 and 9 pm of the day, reports Daily Trust. Mai Unguwar Dei-Dei Ibrahim Galadima while confir...
•Tinubu inspects guard of honour in Maiduguri We will not lose the battle against insecurity. We will secure Nigeria, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu said yesterday. Tinubu spoke at the palace of the Shehu of Borno, Alhaji Abubakar Ibn Umar Garbai Al-Amin El-Kanemi, in Maiduguri,the Borno State capital, reports The Nation. The President was in Mai...
•Dr. Olayemi Oyebanji The wife of the Ekiti state governor, Dr. Olayemi Oyebanji, has rallied the people of the state to join hands with the state government to put an end to the rape epidemic in the state. Dr. Oyebanji said the state government is more determined to apprehend perpetrators of rape, child molestation, defilement, […]
•Etiyin Maurice Edet Gunmen have abducted a traditional ruler in Cross River Etiyin Maurice Edet and also killed one of his aides, police authorities in the South-South state said today. The spokesperson of the Rivers State Police Command Irene Ugbo told our correspondent that the traditional ruler of Akpabuyo Local Government Area of the stat...
•Gunmen Tension has continued to mount in Anambra State, following the killing of no fewer than nine security men by suspected gunmen. The incident happened at Oba, Idemili South Local Government Area of Anambra State on the midnight of yesterday. According to a source who spoke with our correspondent on account of anonymity, the hoodlums [&he...

