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Michael Olugbode in Abuja Barely two weeks after a Madrid, Spain-bound trafficker, Okonkwo Chimezie Henry excreted 113 wraps of Cocaine after his arrest at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA), two others nabbed by the operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), at the Lagos airport have excreted a total of 191 pellets of heroin and cocaine while under observation. On April 10, 2021, during the outward screening of passengers on Ethiopian airline to Italy, NDLEA...

By Michael Olugbode in Abuja Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have intercepted consignments of heroin and khat worth N10 billion at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA), Lagos and the Mallam Aminu Kano International Airport (MAKIA), Kano. A statement on Sunday by the spokesman of the agency, Femi Babafemi, said at the MMIA, Lagos, during cargo examination at SAHCO Import Shed, a freight agent had presented a cargo from South Africa with an Ethiopian Ai...

By Michael Olugbode Boko Haram has attacked Geidam in Yobe State, the hometown of present Acting Inspector General of Police, Usman Baba Alkali. The insurgent group had attacked Alex Badeh’s town when he was Chief of Air Staff and Tukur Buratai when he was Chief of Army Staff, which they intermittently picked on apparently to spite them. The attackers invaded the town yesterday evening and laid some parts to waste before the fighter jets emerged to push them back According to a source, the...

By Michael Olugbode The European Union (EU) has launched a new €100 million humanitarian initiative in support of the COVID-19 vaccination campaigns in Africa. The €100 million initiative, according to a statement by the EU on Wednesday, is part of the European Commission’s efforts to ensure equitable and fair access to safe and effective vaccines to all. The statement said by joining forces with the Africa CDC and other international partners, the European Commission aims to suppor...

By Michael Olugbode Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have arrested a 300-level university student, Rhoda Agboje, and her boyfriend, Ifeanyi Nwankwo, for allegedly selling drug cookies. The duo specialize in the production of drug cookies, who they subsequently sell to unsuspecting members of the public in Abuja. According to a statement on Tuesday by the spokesman of the anti-drug agency, Femi Babafemi, narcotics agents with the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Comm...

By Michael Olugbode The Borno State Governor, Prof. Babagana Zulum, has announced the plan to urbanise communities in five Borno local government areas. The governor said on Saturday during a visit to Mafa on his routine distribution of humanitarian aids to the people of the state, that communities in Biu, Gubio, Kaga, Mafa and Monguno Local Government Areas have been earmarked in the first phase of the urbanisation scheme of his administration. He said: “We have started urbanisation of villa...

Kingsley Nwezeh in Abuja and Michael Olugbode in Maiduguri Air and ground offensive launched by the military in the past one week decimated scores of fighters of the Islamic State for West African Province (ISWAP) in Damasak, Borno State while three soldiers fell in the attack. However, Borno State Governor, Prof. Babagana Zulum, said 18 persons lost their lives in the attack on Damasak by terrorists while 21 others, who were injured, were receiving treatment in various hospitals. A Nigerian Ar...

By Michael Olugbode The European Union (EU) has called on all parties in the ongoing North-east crisis to allow people caught in violence to move freely to safe places and facilitate unimpeded passage of humanitarian relief for civilians in need. A statement issued on Thursday by the EU Commissioner for Crisis Management, Mr. Janez Lenarčič, on the latest terror attacks on Damasak, Borno State, said: “The EU is following with deep concern the recurrent violent attacks by non-state armed gro...

Michael Olugbode writes that the long awaited convention of the All Progressives Congress (APC) may soon be around the corner with almost everything required getting ready The APC National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting chaired by President Muhammadu Buhari on 25th June 2020 had no choice but to dissolve the Adams Oshiomhole-led National Working Committee of the party on seeing disaster and collapse looming with the continuous dwindling fortunes of the party and many members dissatisfied wit...

The United States Embassy in Nigeria has alerted Nigeria to a new visa scam The Embassy in a press release yesterday said the scammers in the publicised press release promised Nigerian citizens between 40-55 years a work visa, which was phoney. The press release read: “The U.S. Mission to Nigeria is drawing the general public’s attention to a fake “press release” claiming to offer a new type of work visa to Nigerians. Scammers and fraudsters circulate this phoney information that the ne...