The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has arrested a 40-year-old businessman, Sherif Egbo, at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport in Abuja while attempting to board a flight to Paris, France. The NDLEA spokesperson, Femi Babafemi, in a statement issued Sunday the operatives of the agency arrested Egbo, based in Madrid, Spain, was apprehended on October 14. He said a body scanner revealed that he had ingested wraps of illicit drugs in his stomach, leading to his arrest. Babafemi said, “He was subsequently placed under observation at the agency’s exhibit recovery room where he excreted 93 pellets of heroin weighing 2.222…
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The Federal Capital Territory Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has said that the downpour on Saturday evening in the nation’s capital has claimed the life of a 31 year old motorcyclist, Yakubu Lucky. Its Head of Public Affairs, Nkechi Isa in a statement issued Sunday said Lucky drowned after he drove into the pool of water at Dogongada in Lokogoma District of the territory. She said: “The deceased who defied warnings from the local divers stationed at Dogongada by the FCT Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), also navigated through the barricade placed by the Agency. “The Search and Rescue team of FEMA…
A former Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Yekini Nabena, has called on the country’s security agencies to arrest a Kaduna based Islamic cleric, Sheikh Ahmad Gumi, over his recent public outburst against the Minister of Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike. TheHintsNews reports that Gumi had in a video posted on his official Facebook page last Thursday labelled Wike as a “Satan” for receiving the Israeli Ambassador to Nigeria in his office. The cleric in the sermon also asserted that President Bola Tinubu would be stopped from serving for eight years. However, Nabena, in…
Troops of 33 Brigade of the Nigerian Army have neutralised an armed bandit in an ambush staged against the group on Friday in Bura, Ningi Local Government Area of Bauchi state. Director Army Public Relations, Brig-Gen. Onyema Nwachukwu in a statement issued Saturday said the troops acting on actionable intelligence laid in wait for the bandits and unleashed fire on them, killing one, while others fled with gunshot wounds leaving traces of blood. He said the troops recovered one AK-47 rifle, 14 live rounds of 7.62 mm ammunition, a mobile phone and a fetish amulet from the bandit. Nwachukwu added…
As the country continues to battle insecurity, the Nigerian Army has passed out over 6000 Recruits of the 85 Regular Recruit Intake (RRI) in Kaduna state. Director Army Public Relations, Brig-Gen. Onyema Nwachukwu in a statement issued Saturday said the journey to soldering by the 6,315 passing out recruits, began after successfully undergoing a painstaking selection process, and reporting for training at the Depot Nigerian Army on 3 June 2023, culminating in today’s POP. Addressing the Passing out Recruits, the Chief of Army Staff, Lt-Gen. Taoreed Lagbaja, reaffirmed that the Nigerian Army will continue to give troops’ training and welfare…
Ahead of the November 11 governorship election in Kogi state, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), says the allegations made by the Social Democratic Party (SDP) that the staff of the commission are allegedly reconfiguring Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS) as false. The commission noted that three persons mentioned were not associated with the configuration of the BVAS machines and not even in Kogi State at the moment. The Chief Press Secretary to INEC Chairman, Mr. Rotimi Oyekanmi, in a statement issued Saturday said the configuration of BVAS is done simultaneously and exclusively in the commission’s offices in Bayelsa, Imo…
The Inspector-General of Police, Ag. Kayode Egbetokun has launched manhunt for the perpetrators of the armed robbery attack that took place in Otukpo, Benue State. TheHintsNews reports that daredevil armed robbers on Friday robbed commercial banks in Otukpo which led to the death of about 8 persons including Police Officers and innocent civilians. Egbetokun in a statement issued Saturday by the Force Public Relations Officer, ACP Olumuyiwa, said the act of violence as an assault on the principles of peace, security, and justice that the Police and other security agencies work tirelessly to uphold. The police boss extended his heartfelt…
The Economic and financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has secured the conviction and sentencing of 25 internet fraudsters. The anti-graft agency in a statement issued Friday noted that its Enugu Zonal Command secured the conviction if the fraudsters before Justice Nnamdi Dimkpa of the Federal High Court sitting in Awka, Anambra State It said they were jailed on Friday, October 13, 2023 after pleading guilty to one –count separate charge bordering on impersonation. It said the Convicts are; Kingsley Chekwubechukwu Ngwu, Anthony Emmanuel Ndubuisi, Onyia Chukwuka Christian, Chukwuneke Chibuike Nicholas, Nonso Henry Ozoekwe, John Samuel, Okpe Matthew Chinweike, Kalu Nnachi, Okpe…
President Bola Tinubu has approved the release of four months salaries of lecturers withheld during the eight months strike by Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU). The Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Ajuri Ngelale, in a statement issued Friday said the president directed the release of the withheld four month salaries after invoking the Principle of the Presidential Prerogative of Mercy. TheHintsNews reports that “No Work, No Pay” Order was instituted against striking members of ASUU during the eight-month industrial action that commenced on February 14, 2022 and terminated on October 17, 2022. Ngilale said: “In…
The Governor of Kaduna State, Dikko Radda has said that there was not a single day that he didn’t receive a report about kidnapping or banditary in the state since he assumed office. The Governor stated this Friday while addressing a press briefing in Abuja. He stated: ” As you are all aware, Katsina State is one of the States that is affected by banditry, kidnapping and all sorts of criminalities. “Lives and property are lost. People are being disrupted from performing their daily legal activities in terms of economic development of the State and the essence of government is…