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The United Nation Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) has raised concerns over the increasing smuggling of Tramadol through the nation’s seaports. It disclosed that the quantity of smuggled Tramadol seized at the seaports has gone up from eight tons ...
Read More »Akwa Ibom reveals plans to establish disease control coordination centre
An Epidemiologist at the Akwa Ibom State Ministry of Health and Chairman, Committee on the Nigerian Medical Association Physicians Week, Dr. Aniekeme Uwah, has disclosed that a Coordination Center for Disease Control would soon be established in the state. He ...
Read More »Groups write N’Assembly, seek investigation of NGOs operating in North East over alleged abuses
The Save Humanity Advocacy Centre (SHAC) and the Centre for International and Strategy Studies (CISS) have written the National Assembly on the activities of some international non-govermental organisations (NGOs) in the North East and seeking a through investigation of their ...
Read More »Court fixes December 11 to hear motion in N19.4b Dasuki’s trial
A Federal Capital Territory (FCT) High Court in Maitama, Abuja has fixed December 11, 2019 for hearing in the trial of Col. Sambo Dasuki (rtd.) and four others over alleged misappropriation of N19.4b arms funds. Justice Hussein Baba-Yusuf adjourned the ...
Read More »EFCC presents additional witness against Masari over alleged N104.7m fraud
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has presented the third witness (PW3) in the ongoing trial of former Director General of the Small and Medium Enterprises Development Agency of Nigeria (SMEDAN), Umar Bature Masari. Masari, who was accused of ...
Read More »30 persons feared dead in Bauchi boat mishap
No fewer than 30 persons have been feared dead when a canoe capsised in Kirfi Council Area of Bauchi State, according to eye witnesses accounts. But a statement from the Police in Bauchi said the incident occurred on Monday morning ...
Read More »Gunmen kill three women in Plateau, Jukun-Tiv crisis a shame, cleric insists
Peace initiatives by security agencies to end attacks in parts of Plateau State suffered a setback yesterday as gunmen killed three women on their farms at Vatt Community in Foron District of Barkin-Ladi Council Area of the state. It was ...
Read More »Taraba killing of policemen blamed on communication gap, non-compliance to procedures
HURIWA seeks N900m compensation for victims of banditry in Zamfara Communication gap between personnel of Nigerian Police Force (NPF) and troops of the Nigerian Army led to the killing of three policemen and two civilians by soldiers along the Ibi-Wukari ...
Read More »Senate begins amendment of oil production sharing contracts’ law, receives report on Abbo as 10 bills scale first reading
The Senate has begun moves to amend the Production Sharing Contract (PSC) Act following the consideration of a bill in that respect. Titled Deep Offshore and Inland Basin Production Sharing Contract 2004 (Amendment) Bill 2019, the piece of legislation passed ...
Read More »Nigeria moves to protect West Africa’s $286b maritime trade as Buhari assures of new transport plan, strategy
The spate of piracy in the Gulf of Guinea is posing a serious threat to import and export trade worth $286 billion in West Africa, stakeholders have disclosed. Speaking at the ongoing Global Maritime Security Conference organised by the Nigerian ...
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