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By Michael Olugbode National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has busted an online drug trafficking cartel that sells drugged cookies, cakes, brownies and all sorts of illicit substances to residents of Abuja and beyond, through the cyber space. A statement on Sunday by the spokesman of the anti-drug law enforcement agency, Femi Babafemi, said the raid on Friday and Saturday resulted in the arrest of five members of the cartel. He said they were arrested during sting operations carried out b...

Michael Olugbode in Maiduguri Borno State Government has reiterated the need to always wash hands, insisting that this is key to stemming the spread of communicable diseases like cholera, tuberculosis, Ebola and COVID-19. Speaking at the occasion commemorating the World Hand Hygiene Day organized in by Borno State Government in collaboration with the World Health Organisation (WHO) in Maiduguri, the Commissioner for Health who is also the Chief of Staff to Borno State Governor, Prof. Isa Marte ...

Helen Grant is United Kingdom’s Special Envoy for Girls Education, and also a Trade Envoy to Nigeria. She has been a member of Parliament for about 11 years, having practiced as a family lawyer for 23 years. She was recently in Nigeria to prepare ground for the forthcoming Global Partnership in Education Summit to be hosted in London between July 28 and 29, 2021. In this interview with Michael Olugbode, she bares her mind on the impact of the summit on global education and the plan to get 40 ...

By Michael Olugbode An 80-year-old woman, Mrs. Mary Adebayo, her 19-year-old grand-daughter, Funmilola Adebayo and two other ladies have been arrested in Akure, the Ondo State capital by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, (NDLEA), for selling assorted illicit drugs. The drugs they were caught with include cocaine, heroin, methamphetamine, tramadol, swinol and skuchies. According to a statement issued yesterday by the spokesman of the anti-drug agency, Mr. Femi Babafemi, a r...

By Michael Olugbode The Minister of Interior, Mr. Rauf Aregbesola, has said his ministry is mindful of current security situation in the country and understands the need to maintain proper synergy among the security agencies in the country. The minister, who as part of efforts to improve security agencies’ response to various threats to public peace and safety across the country, on Thursday flagged off an inter-agencies training on Nigeria Internal Security and Public Safety Alert System (NI...

By Michael Olugbode The Minister of Interior, Mr. Rauf Aregbesola, has said that the criminal element terrorising the country are just as ordinary and uniform like the rest of Nigerians, calling on security agencies to step up to the plate of addressing the security challenges pervading the nation. Aregbesola, reading a speech titled: “Make A Big Difference” at the decoration of Deputy Controllers General of Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS), Nigerian Correctional Service (NCoS) and the Dep...

By Michael Olugbode The Shalom Nursery and Primary School owned by the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG) in Damaturu, Yobe State, has been razed by a mysterious fire. Eyewitnesses told THISDAY that the fire started from the primary school block wreaking havoc on the books and desks in the class, burning the entire block down. Addressing journalists on the incident, the Head Teacher of the school, Mrs. Kemi Bature, said the staff and management of the school were still confused and could n...

By Michael Olugbode The Director General/CEO, National Biosafety Management Agency (NBMA), Dr. Rufus Ebegba, has said there is no genetically modified beans or fruits on sale in Nigerian market. Addressing the media on the state of Biosafety in Nigeria on Tuesday in Abuja, Ebegba said: “I want to restate here that the fruits and beans available in the Nigerian market presently are not genetically modified as insinuated rather, they are either hybrids or improved.” He added that the federal ...

By Michael Olugbode Freshly baked cakes made with cannabis sativa (marijuana) were recovered by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) in a raid on some eateries in Jos, the Plateau State capital. Also recovered were some assorted psychotropic substances weighing 48.7 kilogrammes. According to a statement on Monday by the spokesman of the anti-drug agency, Femi Babafemi, some of the drug joints raided within the Jos metropolis included KNL Lounge located along Lamingo ro...

Michael Olugbode in Abuja A 47-year-old drug trafficker, Chigbogu Obiora has excreted 97 wraps of cocaine after his arrest and being placed under observation by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA,) at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, MMIA, Lagos. The street value of the drugs weighing 1.55 kilogrammes is put at N360 million. A statement yesterday by the spokesman of NDLEA, Femi Babafemi disclosed that Obiora was arrested at about 1:16p.m. on Sunday 25th Apr...