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An international organized criminal group (IOCG) operating between Nigeria, United Kingdom (UK), Brazil, Australia, and the United Arab Emirate (UAE) made up of mainly ex-jailbirds in overseas prisons has been smashed by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA). According to a statement on Sunday by the spokesman of NDLEA, Femi Babafemi, the…
The Department of State Services (DSS) has filed terrorism charges against two senior commanders of Ansaru, a terror group reportedly linked to Al-Qaeda, over their alleged role in violent attacks across Nigeria. The suspects are Mahmud Usman, also known as Abu Bara’a Abbas/Mukhtar, who is described as the Emir of Ansaru, and his deputy, Mahmud…
The Kaduna Police Command has summoned the immediate past governor of the state, Nasir El-Rufai, to appear before it over an alleged criminal conspiracy, incitement of public disturbance, mischief, and causing grievous hurt. El-Rufai was summoned by the Deputy Commissioner of Police in charge of criminal investigation, Zubairu Abdullahi, alongside key members of the Kaduna…
President Bola Tinubu has announced that Nigeria is not borrowing locally and has met its revenue target for the year. Tinubu said this during a reception for members of the defunct Congress for Progressive Change (CPC), led by former Nasarawa State governor, Tanko Al-Makura. “We have met our revenue target for the whole year, and…
The National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Umar Damagum, has insisted there is no going back on the party’s national convention, billed for November in Ibadan, Oyo State. Damagum spoke on Tuesday during the inauguration of the 110-member National Convention Organizing Committee (NCOC) in Abuja. “As you know, the 2025 National Convention is…
By Prince Woke The Commissioner of Police in Rivers State, CP Olugbenga Adepoju has bagged award of Most outstanding Commissioner of Police in South -South,Nigeria . This follows his nomination by International Association of World Peace Advocates,IAWPA Olugbenga Adepoju, as the most outstanding Commissioner of Police in South-South region,Nigeria. In a letter dated August 26th,2025…
In advancing its advocacy and sensitisation of critical stakeholders on the ‘Pact for the future’, the United Nations in Nigeria in collaboration with partners, has convened a strategic dialogue on the United Nations at 80 and the Pact. At the dialogue, convened in collaboration with the Institute for Peace and Conflict Resolution (IPCR), and the…
…Commends Turnout of Voters By Barikui Felix The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, has expressed confidence that the state of emergency in Rivers State will end on September 18, 2025 Wike spoke shortly after casting his vote in the just concluded local government election in the state on Saturday at Rumuepirikom Ward…
The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has inaugurated Professor Monday Igbafen as Caretaker Committee Chairman of the Edo State Council despite resistance from the state House of Assembly. This particular faction is supported by the President of the Nigerian Labour Congress, Comrade Joe Ajero, while the Edo State government is in support of the Comrade Bernard…
By Barikui Felix While the Rivers State Independent Electoral Commission, RSIEC, says it has finalized plans for the conduct of local council polls in the 23 councils of the state this Saturday, Pastor Tonye Cole, flagbearer of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in the 2019 and 2023 General Elections in the state has urged them…