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Daily Post Nigeria Published The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) in Taraba has arrested a 35-year-old Chadian for alleged drug trafficking. Mr Suleiman Jadi, NDLEA Commander in Taraba, made this known in a statement by the agency’s Director, Media and Advocacy, Mr Femi Babafemi on Thursday in Abuja, NAN reports. He said the suspect, Adama Uomar-Issa, was arrested on Wednesday in Jalingo, in possession of 21.70 kilogrammes of Tramadol 225 milligrammes and 250 milligrammes. Jadi sa...

SaharaReporters learnt that Agboola was arrested on Wednesday while appearing as a counsel before Chief Magistrate B. I. Ilo at the court.

A suspected fake lawyer, 50-year-old Azeez Agboola, had confessed to the police that though he read law in the university, he has not been called to Bar because did not pass the law school examination.” Agboola was arrested by men of the Ogun State Police Command, “for unlawfully parading himself as a legal practitioner.” The suspect, a resident of Oko Afo area of Badagry, Lagos State, was arrested while appearing as a counsel before Chief Magistrate B. I. Ilo, at the Chief Magistrate Cou...

One of the drivers, Femi Arowolo, said they paid N1,000 at Agbara park in the morning and another N1,000 at Iyana-Sashi, Okokomaiko and Iyana-Oba, in addition to the N1,000 they paid in the evening, to be allowed to operate. “This is aside the sum of N100 paid to them on every trip made and additional N200 paid to the police at every bus stop,’’ he said. The drivers vowed to resist the act with all their might, insisting that the colossal damage done to their vehicles was becoming too man...

The parent company of Nestlé Nigeria Plc, Nestlé S.A, is set to earn a whopping sum of N32 billion in dividend for the financial year ended December 2020. The multinational food and drink processing conglomerate corporation, headquartered in Switzerland is the single majority shareholder of Nestlé Nigeria Plc, with 527,080,970 units of the total issued shares of its subsidiary. This puts the ownership stake of the Swiss multinational at 66.5%, ahead of Stanbic IBTC Nominees Limited with 6.28...

Nigerian Senate on Wednesday called for the construction of Badagary/Sokoto Expressway to promote economic growth in the country. Senator Sadiq Umar and seven other Senators made a case for the project during the Senate plenary session. Senate president Ahmad Lawan mandated the Committees on Works, Finance, and National Planning & Economic Development to jointly inter-face with the Ministry of Works, Federal Road Maintenance Agency (FERMA), and other relevant authorities to determine why the Ba...

The Union is demanding protection of its members, and payment of N475 billion compensation for lives of members and properties lost during the #EndSARS protest and the Shasa market crisis in Ibadan. It also demands the dismantling of all roadblocks on federal highways where their members are harassed and money extorted from them by security operatives. The strike entails closing all routes between the North and South for vehicles conveying cattle and food items. Such vehicles are stopped from r...

By Grace Alegba Lagos, March. 1, 2021 Mr Olukayode Popoola, the Federal Controller of Works says work on drainage projects is ongoing, ahead of the rainy season to avert flooding in Lagos. Popoola told newsmen in Lagos on Monday that contractors had moved to sites since November 2020 and were still evacuating highway drains to tackle flooding in the city. According to him, the Federal Government had awarded contracts for the drainage projects to ensure the work are completed on time. He added t...

Share Watchers of political developments in the South-West geopolitical zone would no doubt have noticed the calm and tranquility in Ogun State in recent times. Although The Gateway State, contiguous to Lagos, Nigeria’s economic capital, is not without security challenges, it is one of Nigeria’s safest states at the moment, a thriving destination for business and tourism in spite of the global ravages occasioned by Covid-19. This has not been by accident but by deliberate design. An inkling...

He died on Friday, 1st of January this year. It was “Happy New Year” day. His death was sudden, so sudden that it hit his family and friends, old-timers and new-timers, like a blow to the heart. And one of the new-timers, the secretary of the Sapele Boys’ Club (SBC) he led, rightly called the Friday that the good man closed his eyes forever “Black Friday.” He was not sick. He had no ailment known to himself or to his dumbfounded friends of old young men and young old men- some are gre...