The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency says it has arrested no fewer than 5,000 suspects and secured 500 convictions between January and May 2021 for drug abuse and trafficking. The agency’s Chief Executive Officer, Retired Brig.-Gen. Mohamed Marwa, made this known on Saturday in Ibadan at a book launch authored by Retired Brig.-Gen. Larinde Laoye. […]
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A civil society organisation, Coalition of Public Interest Lawyers & Advocates, says that the Nigeria Police Force should hand over the investigation of a Deputy Commissioner of Police, Abba Kyari, to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission and the Federal Bureau of Investigation. This was contained in a statement issued by the lawyers on Friday […]
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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on Saturday in Abuja confirmed the arrest and detention of the former Senate President, Bukola Saraki. Spokesman of the commission, Mr. Wilson Uwujaren, said that the former Kwara State Governor was invited for questioning over allegations of corruption and money laundering. He said that the former Senate president is […]
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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission is presently quizzing a former president of the Senate, Bukola Saraki, over alleged misappropriation of public funds and money laundering. Saraki, who arrived at the EFCC office around 2pm today, is still being interrogated presently. Our correspondent could not confirm if he would be detained overnight. A senior official […]
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Members of All Progressives Congress (APC) in Osun State on Saturday elected consensus leaders across the 332 wards in the State amid allegation of exclusion by loyalists of Minister of Interior Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola. They alleged the party refused to carry them along in the exercise. In 35 wards of Osun West senatorial district, it […]
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Veteran Nigerian actress, Rachel Oniga, has passed on, according to sources who said she died on Friday. It was gathered that she passed on last night after returning from a movie set. Celebrity journalist and film producer, Seun Oloketuyi, who broke the news on his Instagram page, said Oniga passed away on Friday night. Sources […]
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Crisis has rocked the ward congresses of All Progressives Congress (APC) in Akwa Ibom following the alleged insistence of National Secretary of the party’s Caretaker Committee Senator John Akpanudoedehe to have a consensus arrangement. A group known as the APC Elders Forum led by a former military administrator of Rivers and Ogun states, Group Captain […]
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The ruling All Progressives Congress ward Congress in Ekiti State was on Saturday characterised by violence and shooting as polling units across the 177 wards experienced tension by suspected political thugs. One person identified as Jide was killed during the exercise at the Ado ward 10 while several persons sustained varying degrees of injuries. The […]
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By Banji Ayoola The Ondo State chapter of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has described as laughable the request by Governor Oluwarotimi Akeredolu on its candidate in the last govenorship election, Mr Eyitayo Jegede, to join his administration to move the state forward. Against this backdrop, a former chairman of Ondo East Local Government, Mr Olusiji […]
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A handout picture made available by the supreme leader office shows Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei addressing nation in a live TV speech on the occasion of Eid al-Adha in Tehran on July 31 2020. (Photo by – / Khamenei.IR / AFP) Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has granted clemency to more than […]
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