•Fake alcohol packaging centres in Lagos The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control has uncovered counterfeit alcohol packaging centres at Article Market, Abule-Osun, Lagos State, seizing items worth an estimated ₦2 billion. A NAFDAC statement today via X noted that, during the operation, over 50,000 fake branded labels a...
•FRSC officials on duty The Federal Road Safety Corps, FRSC, has announced an immediate clampdown on fake diplomatic and unauthorised plate numbers on vehicles across Nigerian roads. In a statement by the Assistant Corps Marshal and Corps Public Education Officer, Olusegun Ogungbemide yesterday, noted that the directive, issued by the Corps Ma...
•Adewunmi Taiwo A suspect, Mr. Adewunmi Taiwo, 45, arrested by men of the Lagos State Traffic Management Authority, LASTMA, for impersonating an officer of the agency has confessed how he made at least N750,000 in a month from unsuspecting motorists caught over traffic offences. The suspect, who was arrested on Oshodi Bridge in a sting [&helli...
•Real Madrid’s forward, Kylian Mbappe Real Madrid fans rallied around star striker Kylian Mbappe today as the France captain battles a media frenzy linking him to a rape investigation in Sweden. Swedish prosecutors on Tuesday confirmed an investigation had been launched — without naming Mbappe — following an alleged rape at a plush Stockholm h...
•EFCC operatives The Kaduna Zonal Directorate of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has arraigned one Ibrahim Shuaibu before Justice Darius Khobo of the Kaduna State High Court, sitting in Kaduna State for fraud. According to a statement today on EFCC X.com handle, Shuaibu is facing prosecution on a seven-count charge, including crim...
•Prophet Fufeyin The Senior Prophet of Christ MercyLand Deliverance Ministry, Abuja, Jeremiah Fufeyin, has denied allegations suggesting that his ministry has been using the name of the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control to mislead the public regarding spiritual items. In a statement issued yesterday by the church’s m...
•Prophet Jeremiah Omoto Fufeyin The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, NAFDAC, has warned the general public against patronising drinking water, soap, perfume and other products being produced by Christ Mercyland Deliverance Ministry, CMDM, saying the products are fake. Prophet Jeremiah Omoto Fufeyin, is the founder ...
A 34-year-old man, Adeola Ogunmolu, who claims to be an employee of the Power Holding Company of Nigeria (PHCN), pleaded guilty today before an Ogudu Magistrates’ Court to charges of fraudulently obtaining N338,000 under the guise of supplying prepaid meters. Ogunmolu, a resident of the Ifako area in Lagos, admitted to the two charges against ...
A year after British pharmaceutical giant, GlaxoSmithKline exited Nigeria and asthmatic patients who depended on its inhalers faced significant distress due to the medication’s scarcity, investigations showed that fake and unregistered inhalers have flooded Nigerian markets, reports Sunday PUNCH. For a 28-year-old marketer, Rose Daniel, having...
•Youth Corps members In its continuous effort to prevent unqualified graduates from obtaining the national service certificate, the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) said a total of 54 corps members who were illegally mobilised by the University of Calabar, have been demobilised. The NYSC Director General, Brigadier General YD Ahmed disclose...

