Archive for month: March, 2023

Operatives of the National Dr¥g Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have arrested one Onyeze Obiora with illicit dr¥gs concealed in packs of air freshener. The suspect was arrested at the SAHCO export shed of Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos on Monday, March 20, 2023. NDLEA spokesperson, Femi Babafemi, in a...

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Operatives of the National Dr¥g Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have arrested a businessman, Molokwu Nwachukwu, for allegedly concealing 36 parcels of coc@ine in different parts of his check-in bags, hand luggage and two pairs of slippers, while heading to Southeast Asia. The suspect, who frequents China, Dubai, Pakistan, and...

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No fewer than 51,828 Boko haram fi¥hters and their family members surrendered to the Federal Government between July 2021 and May 2022, the Chief of Defence Staff, Gen. Lucky Irabor, has said. Speaking at an event in Uzairue, Edo State, the military boss said that 1,543 repentant t£rrorists have...

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Former Chief of Staff in General Sani Abacha’s military junta, Lt-General Donaldson Oladipo Oyeyinka Diya (retd), has di£d at the age of 78. The formal military administrator of Ogun State, who was also a lawyer, passed away in the early hours of Sunday, March 26, 2023, according to a...

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The Department of State Service (DSS) has issued a warning about plans by some people to cause viol£nce and disrupt the peace in Nigeria. DSS spokesperson, Peter Afunanya, in a statement on Saturday, March 25, said: “The Department of State Service (DSS), again, alerts the public of plans to...

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Police operatives in Ogun State have arrested a 43-year-old man, identified as Abiodun Oladapo, for allegedly impregnating his biological daughter, 19, and forcing her to lie that it was her boyfriend who impregnated her. The command’s spokesperson, Abimbola Oyeyemi, in a statement on Saturday, March 25, said: “The suspect...

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President-elect, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, has raised the alarm over plots by some aggrieved politicians to truncate the transition process, particularly his expected swearing-in on May 29. His spokesperson, Festus Keyamo (SAN), in a statement on Saturday, March 25, said: “We have watched with great concern the cond£mnable activities of...

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One of the Labour Party aspirants in the upcoming Governorship primaries in Imo State, Chief Humphrey Anumudu, has been found d£ad. He was found d£ad in his Lagos home on Friday night, March 24, shortly after he returned from an LP meeting at the party national headquarters in Abuja....

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The Court of Appeal in Abuja has dismissed a case by Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) seeking the disqualification of Asiwaju Bola Tinubu and Kassim Shettima as the presidential and vice-presidential candidates of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the February 25 election. A three-member panel headed by Justice James...

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Nollywood fast-rising actress, Gbemi Anjola, is d£ad. It was gathered that the 33-year-old passed away on Friday, March 24, 2023, after a prolong b@ttle with ovarian cancer. According to one of her colleagues who spoke with Instablog9ja, “She she was diagnosed with the ailment sometime in 2021. She went...

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