The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has arrested 534 persons in connection with drug crimes across the nation in an ongoing clampdown operation on drug joints nationwide aimed at ensuring a hitch-free inauguration of new administration both at the central and at state levels. A statement on Friday, 19 May, 2023, by the spokesman of the anti-narcotics agency, Femi Babafemi read: “The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, has launched a nationwide raid of drug joints in an exercise code-named Operation Mop Up as part of law enforcement efforts to remove enablers of crime and violence in the form…
Author: Olamide Obayemi
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Abuja Zonal Command, today, May 18, 2023, arrested 26 suspected internet fraudsters. They are Favour Obinna, Chinaza Onuigbo, Abdulrahman Ibrahim, Suleiman Daude, Ali Daude, Godwin Ifeanyi, Victor Ageme and Enoch Alfa. Others are Wisdom Ndubuisi, Matthew Gideon, Stanly Kosi, Japhet Akogun, James Efegha, Christopher Enaho, Daniel Benjamin and Idris Salvation. Also arrested are Idris Victor, Ikechukwu Ephraim Idris,Abdullahi Sani, Jeremiah Yacim, Chindu Chukwuma, Mohammed Daude Hamisu, Tochukwu Trust, Theophilus Marshal, Sani Solomon and Chukwu Nnaemeka Oscar. The suspects were picked up in Kubwa, a suburb of Abuja. Items recovered from them include a…
Founder of First City Monument Bank (FCMB) Group Subomi Balogun has died at the age of 89. Balogun died in London, United Kingdom on Friday morning, 19 May, 2023. He was reported to have died after a brief illness. Subomi Balogun, a philanthropist of note, celebrated his 89th birthday on Thursday, 9 March, 2023.
The United Nations has said US$396 million is urgently needed to salvage a catastrophic humanitarian crisis in the nation’s Northeast. The UN decried that should something not urgently be done to address the situation, humanitarian partners will only reach about 300,000 of the 4.3 million at-risk people in need of food assistance in the troubled Northeast region of Nigeria during the lean season. A statement on Thursday by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UN-OCHA) after the Launch of the Lean Season Food Security and Nutrition Crisis Multi-sector Plan 2023 said: “To prevent a widespread hunger…
Nigerian businesses have been given another opening to the rest of the world as the Federal Government on Thursday launched an online platform that would connect foreign businesses that want to do business with Nigerian businesses. The government also set up a help desk to attend to Nigerians in diaspora who need information on provision for help. The Nigeria Global Business Match, NGBM is a real-time online one stop-shop where foreign businesses seeking to do business in Nigeria can transparently conduct end to end transactions with Nigerian registered and verified businesses in a secured and trusted online platform. NGNM provides…
About 4.3 million girls are presently at risk of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) with the number expected to rise to 68 million by 2030 if not given the deserving attention to curb the dangerous trend, according to the latest report by the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA). The UNFPA Deputy Representative to Nigeria, Erika Golson, disclosed this at a UNFPA/ ESARO FGM Hackathon and launch of the SMART RR mobile application event in Abuja. Golson, said conflict, issues of climate change, rising poverty and inequality continue to hinder efforts to transform gender and social morals that underpin this harmful practices…
Two U.S. Mission employees missing since the May 16 attack in Anambra state are alive and safe, and under the protection of Nigerian authorities in Anambra, the United States Embassy has said. The Embassy in a statement on Friday, 19 May, 2023, said: “Two U.S. Mission employees missing since the May 16 attack in Anambra state are alive and safe, and under the protection of Nigerian authorities in Anambra. “We have informed their families of their safe recovery. U.S. Mission personnel are on their way to meet and accompany them home.” The statement further read: “We continue to work intensively…
President-elect, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu has expressed deep shock to over the attack on United States Embassy convoy just hours after his telephone call with the Secretary of State Antony Blinken. He therefore, expressed his sympathy and condolences with the US Government and families of the four personnel killed in the horrific attack at Ogabru, Anambra State. Tinubu’s message was contained in a press statement issued from his Media Office. “President-elect Tinubu has been making his own enquiries into the persons responsible and their motives and will do all he can to ensure the perpetrators are brought to justice. Security…
United Kingdom has appointed, Dr Richard Montgomery CMG as the new British High Commissioner to Nigeria. Montgomery, presented his credentials to President Muhammadu Buhari at the State House in Abuja on Thursday, 18 May, 2023, according to a statement by the British High Commission. He takes over from Ms Catriona Laing CB who recently concluded her four years tenure in the country. According to the statement, the new High Commissioner is an experienced diplomat who has worked in different parts of the world including previously in Nigeria. Prior to becoming the British High Commissioner to Nigeria, Montgomery was the UK…
A Federal High Court sitting in Kano, presided over by Justice M N Yunusa has nullified the candidature of the Abia State Governor-elect, Dr Alex Otti and all the candidates of the Labour Party in Abia and Kano States. The court ruled that their emergence was not in compliance with the provisions of the 2022 Electoral Act. A copy of the judgement delivered by the court was obtained Friday morning, 19 May, 2023, by DAILY POST. The Court in Suit No FHC/KN/CS/107/2023 filed by Mr Ibrahim Haruna Ibrahim against the Labour Party and the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), ruled…