The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, Federal Capital Territory command has said the war against illicit drugs and trafficking in Nigeria was yielding positive results. The Commander of Narcotics, FCT commander, Kabir Tsakuwa made this known in an interview with the news men. Tsakuwa said that the Federal Government had been doing a lot to…
The Kaduna State Police Command, on Thursday, confirmed the brutal murder of a member of the National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, Member, Grace Chalya Silas, by yet-to-be-identified assailants in the state. The Command’s spokesman, ASP Mansir Hassan, told newsmen in an exclusive chat that the state Police Commissioner, CP Musa Yusuf Garba, has directed a…
A 20-year-old student of the University of Ilorin, Sanni Hameedat, reportedly committed suicide after lending a boy she met on the social media platform, the sum of N500,000. According to Rubiks, the private hostel management she resided in before her demise, in a statement obtained by newsmen Online on Wednesday, Hameedat was undergoing her SIWES…
A 40-year-old mason, Lekan Sunday, has been arrested for allegedly raping a prophetess in a church in Ogun State. Newsmen learnt that while he allegedly committed the crime last Thursday, men of the state command succeeded in arresting him on Monday. Newsmen gathered that the suspect stormed the church, Orioke Aanu Oluwa Gbohunmi, in the…
Apastor with the Christ Liberty Evangelism Church, Rosco, Iyana Iyesi, Ota, Oyenekan Oluwaseyi, and three others have been arrested with a human skull in the Saje Area of Abeokuta, the Ogun State Capital. It was learnt on Sunday that Oluwaseyi and the three others, 30-year-old, Ibrahim Agbowewe, 40-year-old Suleiman Ogunbunmi, and 57-year-old Gafari Akinsanya, were…
The Federal Capital Territory command of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency has seized 3,988.74 kilograms of assorted drugs with a monetary value of N80 million. The FCT commander, Commander of Narcotics, Kabir Tsakuwa, disclosed this in an interview with the newsmen on Monday in Abuja. Tsakuwa, however, said that 134 suspected drug traffickers, peddlers…
The Nigerian Air Force (NAF) says the Air Components of Operations Hadin Kai and Hadarin Daji, have eliminated scores of terrorists in a stream of air strikes in their enclaves across the theatres. This was contained in a statement by the Director of Public Relations and Information, NAF, Air Commodore Edward Gabkwet, on Sunday in…
A Nigerian Army special court-martial sitting in Abuja, on Tuesday, convicted a former Group Managing Director, Nigerian Army Properties Limited, Major General Umaru Mohammed, of corruption and sentenced him to seven years imprisonment. The military court also ordered Mohammed to pay back $2,178,900 (When converted to naira (at N1000 per dollar), $2.1m equalled N2.1bn. The…
Two teenage boys who seized a phone from a female passerby in Yola, Adamawa State, have been rounded up by people in the neighbourhood and handed over to the police. It was gathered on Tuesday that the teenagers, Suleiman Shuaibu,15 years old, and Abdulazeez Sani, 14 years old, were on Monday, October 9, detained by…
Justice Ibironke Harrison of a Lagos High Court has sentenced a police officer, Darambi Vandi, to death by hanging for shooting a Lagos-based lawyer, Mrs Omobolanle Raheem to death last Christmas. Recall that the defendant shot Raheem in the chest on Dec. 25, 2022, at Ajah Roundabout, on Lekki- Expressway, Lagos State. The prosecution team…