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  Stanley Ihedigbo     National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has intercepted illicit drugs worth more than N3.4 billion, including over 1.3 million pills of tramadol and other opioids and about 6,000 kilograms of cannabis, in intelligence-led operations across several states and the Federal Capital Territory. The operations, conducted…

    Mercy Iheoma Ihedigbo Stakeholders in Nigeria’s extractive sector are set to converge in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, for the fifth edition of the National Extractives Dialogue (NED 2026), with the environmental crisis affecting Bille Kingdom expected to take centre stage. The two-day dialogue, scheduled for September 29–30, 2026,…

  Stanley Ihedigbo   Special Control Unit Against Money Laundering (SCUML) and the Real Estate Developers Association of Nigeria (REDAN) have reaffirmed their commitment to strengthening compliance with Anti-Money Laundering, Counter Financing of Terrorism and Counter Proliferation Financing (AML/CFT/CPF) laws within Nigeria’s real estate sector. The commitment was made during…

    Michael Olumide Alabi   Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS), Zone A, has commended the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) for its sustained efforts in combating corruption and economic and financial crimes in Nigeria. The Zonal Coordinator, Zone A, Assistant Comptroller-General (ACG) Mohammed Adamu, gave the commendation on Thursday,…

  Michael Olumide Alabi Lagos State Police Command has arrested four suspects in connection with an alleged mob attack that resulted in the death of a man, Basit Kolade, on Freeman Street, Lagos Island. The incident reportedly occurred at about 10:40 p.m. on Wednesday, September 2, 2026, following a road…

      Michael Olumide Alabi   Lagos State Police Command has arrested four suspected members of an alleged armed robbery syndicate operating around Iju-Ishaga and Oke-Aro areas of the state. The suspects were arrested by operatives of the Command’s Violent Crime Response Unit (VCRU) following what the Police described…

  Stanley Ihedigbo A 70-year-old woman, a real estate agent and 20 others have been arrested by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) in a nationwide crackdown on drug trafficking, with more than 2.3 tonnes of assorted illicit drugs seized across Lagos, Ondo, Edo, Delta, Kaduna, Plateau, Bayelsa and…

    Nkem Ukaegbu, Umuahia   Foundation for Environmental Rights Advocacy and Development (FENRAD), Nigeria, has called on the Greater Ohafia Development Authority (GODA) and the Abia State Government to urgently rehabilitate the deteriorating Ebem Ohafia access road and address associated drainage, erosion and environmental challenges affecting the community. FENRAD,…

    Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has convicted and sentenced a fake spiritualist, Solomon Odigie Moses, to one year imprisonment for defrauding and blackmailing an Indian woman in a sextortion scheme. Justice C.N. Nwabulu handed down the judgment on Tuesday, September 8, 2026, following Moses’ guilty plea to…

    Stanley Ihedigbo Twenty-one civil society organisations have called for transparency over the suspension of the release of The Night of June 7th, a film based on the 2005 killing of six young Nigerians in Abuja, popularly known as the Apo Six killings. The groups, operating under the Action…