•The discovered illegal apartments under Lagos bridge The Lagos State Commissioner for Environment and Water Resources, Tokunbo Wahab, has said the government discovered 86 apartments under the Dolphin Estate Bridge, Ikoyi, where tenants pay N250,000 annual rent. Posting videos on his X account yesterday, Wahab said the 86 partitioned r...
The Kano State Police Command said it has uncovered some faceless persons hiding under some Islamic sects to cause mayhem during the Eid el-Fitr festival. The Commissioner of Police, Muhammad Usaini Gumel, said this during a meeting with Islamic clerics and representatives from the five emirate councils yesterday. He, however, assured that the...
•Oloyede The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) said it uncovered at least 1,665 fake A’level results during the 2023 Direct Entry registration exercise. The Board also said the A’level results verification regime was occasioned by the endemic corruption associated with the system and was intended to restore the integrity of this ...
•Arrested suspects The Special Military Taskforce in charge of maintaining peace in Plateau state on Wednesday said its troops raided some mountains in the Mangu Local Government Area of the state and uncovered a weapon factory in the area. The spokesman for the Military Taskforce, Captain Oya James, who disclosed this in a statement today [&h...
The Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL) says it discovered over 4,800 illegal connections on oil pipelines in the country in what is a grim picture of the country’s major income earner. “We have over 4,800 illegal connections on our pipelines. That means in some lines, within 100 kilometres of pipelines, you have as much [&hell...
•Some of the suspects Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have uncovered illicit substances bound for Europe, United Arab Emirates and Asia. Disclosing this in a statement today, NDLEA spokesman, Femi Babafemi, said the illicit substances intercepted included various quantities of methamphetamine and opioids conceale...