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Michael Olugbode in Abuja The Nigerian Correctional Service (NCS) has disclosed that only 84 inmates are in its custody after the invasion and setting free of prisoners at the Owerri Custodial Centre, Imo State, by criminals. It said of the people set free by the attackers, 48 of them were picked up in some parts of the state with 36 resisting the temptation to flee when the facility was invaded. A statement issued by the Service Public Relations Officer (SPRO), Francis Enobore, said peace has ...

Michael Olugbode in Abuja A Madrid-bound suspected drug trafficker, Okonkwo Chimezie Henry arrested at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, MMIA, Ikeja, has excreted 113 wraps of cocaine weighing 1.750 kilogrammes, with a street value of N423 million. Okonkwo, who was arrested on Easter day, Sunday 4th April, 2021, was about boarding a Turkish Airline flight number TK0626 at about 8p.m. when he was apprehended at screening point 2. He was taken into custody by the NDLEA operatives at the...

By Michael Olugbode The Minister of State for Environment, Chief Sharon Ekeazor, has appealed to the National Assembly to speed up action on the passing into law of the bill on climate change. Speaking at the opening ceremony of a three-day meeting on the National Council on Environment in Abuja yesterday, Ekeazor noted that the bill has already passed the second reading in House. She said the passing of the bill into law has become necessary so as to have a legal instrument that would address ...

By Michael Olugbode A suspected fake security agent, Basiru Ibrahim, who specialises in trafficking illicit drugs from Benin Republic into Nigeria has been nabbed with 280 kilogrammes of skunk and Diazepam Ibrahim, whose drug route is from neighbouring Benin Republic via Lagos to Sokoto State was caught at about 8.30pm on April 3 conveying 140kg of skunk and another 140kg of Diazepam in his personal Peugeot 406 saloon car with registration number Lagos KSF 60 BE at Kingakwai checkpoint, Kamba, ...

By Michael Olugbode Oxfam International has promised to continue to defend those who are marginalised, and whose rights have been trampled upon. It gave the promise at the fifth anniversary of its VOICE project, aimed at defending the rights of women in society. The VOICE project, is being implemented with support from the Netherlands and focuses on Nigerian women who are victims of abuse. At the anniversary celebration held on Wednesday in Abuja, Constant Tchona, Oxfam country director in Nige...

By Michael Olugbode The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has smashed drug syndicates in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nasarawa and Edo States in a major clampdown during the Easter. In Nasarawa State, a notorious and most wanted drug baron, Sami Ashoko, was nabbed during the Easter festive season. His warehouse filled with skunk was also raided and 100 bags of the illicit drug weighing 1,095.3 kilogrammes seized. In Edo State, during the same period, members of another cartel...

Michael Olugbode in Maiduguri Borno State Governor, Professor Babagana Zulum has felicitated with all Christians in the state on the Easter season and urged them and the Muslims in the state to live in peace.. Zulum, in a statement by his spokesman, Malam Isa Gusau, also said he was very proud of Christians and Muslims in Borno State for maintaining peaceful coexistence in all the 27 Local Government Areas of the State, despite facing tough situations from Boko Haram since 2009, whose fighters ...

Michael Olugbode in Abuja A 40-year-old Goodluck Igbineweka Odeh has been arrested at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja with two kilogrammes of heroin, which has a street value of N564 million. Odeh, who concealed the drug in the lining of false bottom of his suitcase, is from Ikpoba Okha Local Government area of Edo state. He was arrested at the departure lounge of the Abuja airport during an outward clearance of Ethopian aircraft 911 enroute Abuja-Addis Ababa-Italy. According to...

By Michael Olugbode With the latest arrival of a new batch of 418 Nigerians from Saudi Arabia, the figure of those returning to Nigeria from the Arab country in the last three days has risen to 1,071. While leading the inter-governmental agencies to receive the returnees, the Director, Consular and Legal Department in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Bolaji Akinremi, disclosed that 255 and 398 returnees arrived in Nigeria last Monday and Tuesday respectively. Akinremi said the reintegration exe...

By Michael Olugbode The Borno State Governor, Prof. Babagana Zulum, has felicitated with all Christians in the state on the Easter season. Zulum, in a statement by his spokesman, Malam Isa Gusau, also said he is very proud of Christians and Muslims in the state for maintaining peaceful coexistence in all the 27 local government areas, despite facing tough situations from Boko Haram since 2009, whose fighters have undertaken numerous attacks on places of worship. Zulum said: “As Christians all...