The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has arrested a 35-year-old lady, Chidinma Agbazue for attempting to export 20 parcels of cannabis sativa weighing 10.70 kilograms concealed in African salad popularly called Abacha and dried vegetables to Doha, Qatar through the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos. The agency’s officers at the Lagos airport working in partnership with men of the Department of State Security had on Thursday 28th March intercepted Chidinma, an outbound passenger from Lagos to Doha, on Qatar Airways during clearance of passengers at the screening point of terminal 11 of the MMIA. Its Director, Media and Advocacy,…
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The Joint Task Force Operation Udo Ka, in continuation of its operations to stamp out the criminalities of Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) and its armed affiliate the Eastern Security Network (ESN) has raided and cleared the notorious Monday Oluchi Ogu Camp also known as B44 Camp in Imo State. The military in a statement issued Sunday said the operation which commenced on Thursday 28 March 2024 was aimed at clearing known (IPOB/ESN Camp located at the border of Njaba River bothering Awo-Omama Community in Oru East Local Government Area and Ezoiha community in Mbaitoli LGA of Imo State. It…
By my nature, I don’t discuss personalities. I rather dwell on issues. However, circumstances have compelled me to do this. I, therefore, apologize in advance to my admirers, and well-wishers. Rest assured that because of the individual involved, I won’t go beyond this one response. For long, I had refrained from joining issues with Ismaeel Uthman, the deputy editor of Osun Defender, who has been struggling hard to be confirmed the substantive editor of the paper. My reason for not wanting to join issues with him was largely because of the wife and the younger brother. These are people who…
Recently, majority of the electorate in Osun rained curses on Ismail Omipidan (who has been nicknamed Omiparo) because of his penchant for lies and mischief. The electorate were reacting to Omipidan’s article where he cursed them for rejecting his principal, Adegboyega Oyetola to vote for Senator Ademola Adeleke as the Governor of Osun State in 2022. Obviously, Omipidan is yet to heal himself of the wound he suffered from the avoidable defeat of his principal in the election. That is responsible for the frivolous claims, allegations and attacks on individuals, groups and organisations he perceived to be responsible for Oyetola’s…
Following the recent outburst of the Governor of Kaduna state, Senator Uba Sani that the huge debt left behind by his predecessor, Mallam Nasir el-Rufai makes it difficult for the state to pay workers’ salaries, a former National Vice Chairman, North-west of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Dr. Salihu Lukman said he was aware of the growing animosity between the duo. TheHintsNews reports that Sani at a Town Hall meeting in Kaduna, on Saturday, March 30, 2024, raised the alarm that he inherited a huge debt of $587 million, N85 billion, and 115 contractual liabilities from the administration el-Rufai. He…
The Kaduna Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has secured the conviction and sentencing of 42 fraudsters before Justices A.M Liman, M.N Yunusa, Darius Khobo, A.A Bello and A.A Isiaka. The agency in a statement issued Saturday said 32 of the convicts were jailed by Justices Liman and Yunusa of the Federal High Court, sitting in Kano while the remaining 10 were jailed by Justices Khobo, Bello and Isiaka in Kaduna. They were all jailed after pleading guilty to one-count separate charges preferred against them by the EFCC. The 32 convicts jailed in Kano are: Happy…
The Arewa Youth for Peace and Security (AYPS) has called on the Zamfara State Governor Dauda Lawal, to stop unwarranted attacks against his predecessor, Bello Mohammed Matawalle, who currently serves as the Minister of State for Defence. The organisation asked the governor to face governance and allow the minister to concentrate on his own job too. The group in a statement by its president, Abubakar Kankia, noted that Lawal has been consistently using the name of Matawalle, to deflect blame on the insecurity bedeviling the state, which was supposed to be his major focus. He stated that an online platform…
I am compelled to ask this question because of what I knew before I came in contact with my Principal, Adegboyega Oyetola in July, 2019, and even afterwards. I am aware that Oyetola reluctantly accepted to serve as the Chief of Staff to Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola. I am equally aware that he served him diligently and was brutally loyal to him. Not many people would accept the change of role and never laced it with some form of arrogance. Aregbesola himself admitted publicly that when people say they struggled to plant the seed of the progressives in Osun, there were…
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has dared the Governor of Rivers state, Siminilayi Fubara to test his popularity by conducting the local government elections in the state. TheHintsNews reports that the conduct of the local government elections was part of the resolutions reached at the meeting summoned by the President Bola Tinubu during the political crisis in the state. Having implemented six out of eight resolutions, the APC wondered why the governor had refused conducting the election. The Chairman of APC in Rivers state, Tony Okocha, while addressing a press conference at the national secretariat of the party on Friday…
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has increased the minimum capital base of banks to N500 billion. The CBN in disclosed this in a circular titled, “Review of minimum capital requirements for commercial, merchant and non-interest banks _in Nigeria”, issued to all commercial, Merchant and non-interest banks; and promoters of proposed banks on Thursday. It reads: “The prevailing macroeconomic challenges and headwinds occasioned by external and domestic shocks have underscored the need for banks to raise and maintain adequate capital to enhance their resilience, solvency and capacity to continue to support the growth of the Nigerian economy. “Consequently, in furtherance…