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NDLEA seizes 2,553 liters of codeine syrup

Adekunle Dada

8 years ago

The National Drugs Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has arrested 443 persons for alleged drugs related offences in Katsina State between…

Enugu Assembly passes N17 billion supplementary budget

Adekunle Dada

8 years ago

The Enugu State House of Assembly on Tuesday passed a supplementary budget of N17.10 billion to augment capital and recurrent…

Doctor on trial over ‘stolen babies’ scandal

Adekunle Dada

8 years ago

An elderly gynecologist went on trial on Tuesday accused of abducting a baby in 1969 and giving her to another…

NDLEA arrests 287 illicit drug traffickers

Adekunle Dada

8 years ago

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) in Edo says it has arrested no fewer than 287 suspected illicit drug…

Queen Elizabeth approves Brexit law

Adekunle Dada

8 years ago

Britain’s Queen Elizabeth on Tuesday granted royal assent to Prime Minister Theresa May’s flagship Brexit legislation, ending months of debate…

Plateau gets new Police Commissioner

Adekunle Dada

8 years ago

Mr Bala Ciroma, has assumed office as the new Police Commissioner for the Plateau police Command.

Suspected armed robbers attack Sahara Weekly publisher

Adekunle Dada

8 years ago

The publisher of Sahara Weekly, a print and online medium, Femi Oyewole was attacked on Monday morning attacked by suspected…

Oshiomhole’s election will strengthen APC – NDDC boss

Adekunle Dada

8 years ago

Mr Nsima Ekere, the Managing Director of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), says the election of Mr Adams Oshiomhole…

Merkel won’t attend Germany’s match against South Korea

Adekunle Dada

8 years ago

German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Tuesday said she would not be able to attend Germany’s FIFA World Cup match against…

NDLEA rehabilitates 129 persons

Adekunle Dada

8 years ago

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) seized 2.9kg of illicit drugs and rehabilitated 129 drug dependent persons in plateau…

Afghanistan: UN humanitarian agency offers fresh fund

Adekunle Dada

8 years ago

The Common Humanitarian Fund (CHF) has allocated 17 million dollars to Afghans affected by drought, the UN Office for the…

Scientists discover new genes associated with intelligence

Adekunle Dada

8 years ago

Scientists have identified hundreds of new genes associated with intelligence, a joint research project from the University of Queensland’s Brain…

Judiciary reform: EU set to hear Poland’s defence

Adekunle Dada

8 years ago

Poland was set to defend its controversial judiciary reform to fellow European Union member states at a hearing on Tuesday,…

4 remanded over alleged kidnap, murder

Adekunle Dada

8 years ago

A Chief Magistrates’ Court in Kaduna on Tuesday ordered the remand of four men over the alleged kidnap and killing…

French police drive out migrants

Adekunle Dada

8 years ago

French police on Tuesday removed almost 200 migrants who were living on the campus of the University of Paris 8…

Polio: UNICEF calls for routine immunisation

Adekunle Dada

8 years ago

The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has urged governments at all levels to ensure routine immunisation in order to end…

Congo: Ebola outbreak under control – WHO

Adekunle Dada

8 years ago

The spread of Ebola seems to have been stopped in Congo, less than three months after the outbreak of the…

Wet season: Katsina registers 75,000 rice farmers

Adekunle Dada

8 years ago

The Katsina State chapter of the Rice Farmers Association of Nigeria (RIFAN) says it has registered 75,000 farmers that will…

Syria: Russia registers 4 ceasefire violations

Adekunle Dada

8 years ago

The Russian side of the Russian-Turkish commission on the Syrian ceasefire regime has recorded four truce breaches over the past…

Xenophobia: Another Nigerian killed in South Africa

Adekunle Dada

8 years ago

The Nigerian Union in South Africa (NUSA) has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to intervene in Friday’s killing of another…

Brexit: UK delighted with ‘excellent progress’

Adekunle Dada

8 years ago

UK Minister of State for Exiting the European Union Martin Callanan on Tuesday said London was satisfied with the great…

Rohingya crisis: EU sanctions 7 senior Myanmar officials

Adekunle Dada

8 years ago

European Union countries on Monday decided to impose sanctions on seven senior military, border and police officials in Myanmar over…

Nigerian Govt to rebuild National TB centre

Adekunle Dada

8 years ago

The Federal Government on Monday said it would soon rebuild the Diagnostic Laboratory gutted by fire at the National TB…

US suspends prosecution of migrant families

Lanre Babalola

8 years ago

US border officials will temporarily stop handing over illegal immigrants with children for prosecution, a top official said Monday, in…

IBB University graduates 6,348 students

Adekunle Dada

8 years ago

The Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida University, Lapai, Niger will on Saturday, June 29 gives awards to 6,348 graduating students at a…

IGR: Akwa Ibom generates N6.85 billion

Adekunle Dada

8 years ago

The Chairman, Akwa Ibom Board of Internal Revenue Service, Mr Okon Okon, has said that the state recorded N6. 85…

Nigerian Govt commended over grazing reserves

Adekunle Dada

8 years ago

A socio-cultural group, Billital Moobe Pastoralists Association of Nigeria, (BILMPAN) has commended the Federal Government on its decision to create…

5 drug dealers sentenced to death

Adekunle Dada

8 years ago

Five drug traffickers have been sentenced to death and another six sentenced to death with a two-year reprieve in north…

ASUU worries about proliferation of universities

Adekunle Dada

8 years ago

In spite of the proliferation of universities in the country national development goals have not been met, the Academic Staff…

73-yr-old man remanded over alleged rape of teenager

Adekunle Dada

8 years ago

A Warri South Magistrates’ Court has remanded a 73-year-old man, Joseph Umuluku, over alleged rape.

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