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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 by officers of the FCT Command of the Agency during which different brands of illicit drugs were reco...

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 said to stay healthy, people needed to constantly wash their hands with soap and running water. He n...

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 million more girls in primary and secondary school by 2025 globally Can you shed more light on who H...

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 raid was made on their locations based on intelligence. He said: “Following intelligence-based raid...

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 (NISPSAS). Aregbesola, while declaring open the training in Abuja, said that the ministry which is char...