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… Intercepts Brazilian lady with N3b heroin at Abuja airport BENIN CITY/ABUJA: Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have arrested a village head and another suspect in Edo State following the seizure of large quantities of illicit drugs in Esan South-East Local Government Area. The arrests followed a raid carried out at Lagos Camp, Ilushi, where a …

Stakeholders in Ondo, Osun and Ekiti States say Nigeria must urgently embrace state policing, describing its creation as a strategic necessity for addressing the multifaceted security challenges facing the country. They argued that the state police would reduce reliance on the federal and central command, thereby mitigating current security challenges such as banditry and kidnapping. The stakeholders stated that the …

The Lagos State Emergency Management Agency (LASEMA), said it has responded swiftly to a fire outbreak at SAPID Container Terminal, Mile II, Lagos. The Permanent Secretary, LASEMA, Dr Olufemi Oke-Osanyintolu disclosed this in a statement made available to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Sunday. According to the statement, the incident occurred on Jan. 24, prompting the deployment of …

    Your recommendation now is to uninstall the latest update to mitigate bugs. What’s going on with the quality control for updates, Microsoft? (Image credit: Future | Edited with Gemini) Windows 11 users are dealing with yet another update headache, and this time, Microsoft is openly telling people to uninstall the problematic patch. Update KB5074109 has triggered a wave …

  By Idahosa Musa Edo State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has expressed concerns over reports that the Edo State Government is considering the establishment of a state-owned airline. In a statement issued on Friday by its Publicity Secretary, Mr Dan Osa-Ogbegie, the opposition party said the proposal, if pursued, raises questions about priority setting in view of …

By Idahosa Musa Edo State Government has commenced the return of 2,950 plots of land to victims of the 2022 demolition exercise at Oke-Oroma Community in Oredo Local Government Area of the state, bringing relief to about 1,550 affected property owners. Recall that the immediate past administration in Edo State, on September 21, 2022, demolished about 90 houses in the …

Nigeria was plunged into widespread darkness on Friday following the collapse of the national electricity grid, the first such incident recorded in 2026. The system failure occurred around 1 pm, when load allocation to all electricity distribution companies (DisCos) fell to zero. Data obtained from the Nigerian Independent System Operator (NISO) showed that power generation dropped to zero megawatts (MW), …

  The House minority caucus, in an interim report released on Friday, said the alteration constitutes a breach of the Constitution and an affront to the legislature’s authority.. The House of Representatives Minority Caucus has formally confirmed that key provisions of Nigeria’s 2025 tax reform laws were altered in the versions gazetted and circulated to the public. it said the …

Governor Abba Yusuf of Kano State has formally resigned his membership of the New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP), citing deepening internal crises within the party and the need to protect the broader interest of the people of Kano State. The governor conveyed his decision in a letter addressed to the Chairman of the NNPP in Diso–Chiranchi Ward, Gwale Local Government …

After three decades of military interventions and dominance, a convergence of anti-military forces, pro-democracy civil society organizations, determined Nigerian citizens and international pressure groups, would ensure that the dream of a democratic Nigeria was actualized to great hope and expectations of new found freedoms and all the celebrated gains of self-rule. This achievement was probably the most consequential democratic experiment …