Chairman/Chief Executive Officer of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), Brig. Gen. Buba Marwa (Rtd) has charged the Nigerian elites to key into the whole-of-society strategy by the NDLEA to curb the scourge of substance abuse and illicit drug trafficking in the country. Marwa gave the charge in his keynote speech at the Island Club Business Forum in Lagos on Tuesday. He said: “This is not a challenge for government alone. All of us are stakeholders on this issue and it is an assignment for all Nigerians. The standard whole-of-society approach to the drug issue is such that everyone…
Author: Abimbola Ogunaike
President of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) Ibrahim Gusau has added another feather to his cap as he was on Friday, 22 November, 2024 elected as the 1st Vice President of the West African Football Union (WAFU) B zone. The election took place in Niamey, Niger Republic. President of Ghana Football Association, Kurt Edwin-Simeon Okraku, was elected President of the zone, while Oumarou Sawadogo, President of the Burkinabe Football Federation, was elected as the 2nd Vice President. The WAFU B zone is made up of seven countries – Nigeria, Togo, Benin Republic, Ghana, Burkina Faso, Niger Republic and Cote d’Ivoire.…
The committee set up by Governor Monday Okpebholo for the recovery of assets from the administration of his predecessor, Godwin Obaseki, has declared over 200 vehicles belonging to the Edo State Government missing. The chairman of the committee, Kelly Okungbowa who made this disclosure to newshounds on Friday, 22 November,2024 in Benin City, said three vehicles have been recovered in a private residence. Okungbowa listed the three vehicles as one Hilux van and two Toyota Hiace buses. He also disclosed that in one of the Toyota Hiace buses, the committee recovered some palliatives that were meant to have been shared…
Tears flow like river in Nnewi, Anambra State on Friday, 22 November, 2024 as the remains of the late senator representing Anambra South, Senator Ifeanyi Ubah, was buried in his compound. Ubah’s remains first arrived his country home in Umuanuka, Otolo Nnewi in Nnewi North Local Government Area of the state, before being moved to St Peter Clever Parish Umuanuka for a funeral mass. As his body arrived his compound in Nnewi, scores of indigent people, perceived to be his dependents, who gathered at the gate of his palatial home broke into wailing. Ubah died in the United Kingdom in…
In less than 10 hours after the release of his new album titled ‘Morayo,’ famous Nigerian Afrobeats singer, Wizkid has broken records as all the songs in the album are in the top 17 positions on Apple Music, thegazellenews.com reports. The album also shattered Nigeria’s streaming records, with one of its singles amassing 1.57 million streams on Spotify on its opening day. The album, which was released on Friday, 22 November, 2024, is a tribute to his late mother, Juliana Morayo Balogun, who died in August 2023. Afrobeats singer, Wizkid has broken records as all the songs from his new…
Nollywood actress, Wumi Toriola has surpassed Toyin Abraham’s box office record. This is coming a few days after Wumi Toriola emerged as the 2024 box office champion. Thegazellenews.com recalls that the actress was awarded the box office champion by the Federal Government through the National Film and Video Censors Board, NFVCB. Toriola broke Abraham’s record with her latest movie ‘Queen Lateefah’, which has become one of the highest-grossing Nigerian film of all time. Toyin Abraham Since its release in September, the film has grossed N350 million in just two months, surpassing Abraham’s ‘Malaika’, which earned N302 million. The new achievement has placed…
The Chairman of the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC), Dr. Musa Adamu Aliyu, SAN, has disclosed that between 2023 and 2024, the Commission received 2,038 petitions, secured 31 convictions, and recovered assets/ cash worth N105.82 billion. Dr. Aliyu made this known Wednesday, 20 November, 2024, while hosting members of the House of Representatives Committee on Anti-Corruption, led by its Chairman, Honorable Prince Kayode Moshood Akiolu, who were on an oversight visit to the Commission. The Chairman stated that “the Commission received 1,187 petitions in 2023. From January to October 2024, the Commission received 851 petitions. In…
Ogun State Governor, Prince Dapo Abiodun, has said that his administration will award a contract for the construction of Alagbole-Akute and Akute-Oke-Aro-Ijoko roads in Ifo Local Government Area in the next two weeks. Governor Abiodun, who disclosed this at the commissioning of the Ojodu Abiodun-Denro-Ishasi-Akute Road on Friday, said construction would start from Akute to Oke Aro. He said: “Within the next few weeks, a maximum of three weeks, in my determination to ensure that this local government wears a new look, I will be awarding the Alagbole-Akute road. I will also be awarding the Akute-Ijoko-Oke-Aro road. “That Akute-Ijoko-Oke-Aro road…
President Bola Tinubu has stated that his administration’s renewed focus in driving international and local investments into livestock sector of the agricultural value-chain will end the crisis of farmer-herder clashes, eradicate hunger and poverty in Nigeria as well as promote economic prosperity. President Tinubu said this Thursday, 21 November, 2024, in Rio de Janeiro , Brazil at the signing of a Letter of Intent between the Nigerian Government and the JBS S.A, one of the top three largest meat processing companies globally. “What we are doing right now is that we are solving a problem that afflicted humanity in that…
The Minister of Solid Minerals Development, Dr. Dele Alake has charged Chief Executive Officers (CEOs) of mining companies to lead the way in establishing mining development banks to guarantee the needed long-term credit for sustainable development of the mining sector. Speaking at the CEO Roundtable on the sidelines of the 2024 Nigeria Mining Week, Alake encouraged the CEOs to spearhead the mining bank with the aim of making it private-sector driven to wean it off government interference and ensure its longevity and effectiveness. He assured the CEOs that the federal government is actively dismantling bottlenecks to enhance the ease of…