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STARTLING REVELATION: THE PROBLEM OF DRUGS IN NIGERIA IS ENORMOUS, WE PROBABLY DISCLOSE 0.1% OF THE FIGURE OF ARRESTS AND SEIZURES MADE – NDLEA MEDIA AND ADVOCACY DIRECTOR, FEMI BABAFEMI By Oki Samson •COMMENDS CHAIRMAN/CEO BUBA MARWA FOR GAME-CHANGING LEADERSHIP Since January 2021, when the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) came under the leadership of Brig. Gen. Mohamed Buba Marwa (retd) as the new Chairman/CEO, the agency has received a new burst of life. The number of arrests and drug seizures that were made in the past eight months has probably never been made in the past 30 years of existence of the security agency. With more than two million kg of illicit drugs seized, 5000 drug traffickers arrested and over 500 convictions, the former Military Administrator of Lagos state have proven that he is the round peg in the round hole when it comes to fighting drug crimes. He has also affirmed the confidence reposed on him by the President Muhammadu Buhari who gave him the jo...

Boko Haram Named Governors, Senators, Aso Rock Officials As Sponsors - Ex-Naval Boss Olawunmi said the government has not been able to prosecute the sponsors because it is allegedly partisan. He said, “Recently, 400 people were gathered as sponsors of Boko Haram, why is it that the Buhari government has refused to try them? Why can’t this government bring them to trial if not that they are partisan and part of the charade that is going on? “You remember this Boko Haram issue started in 2012 and I was in the military intelligence at that time. We arrested those people. My organisation actually conducted interrogation and they (suspects) mentioned names. I can’t come on air and start mentioning names of people that are presently in government that I know that the boys that we arrested mentioned. Some of them are governors now, some of them are in the Senate, some of them are in Aso Rock. “Why should a government decide to cause this kind of embarrassment and insecurity to the sense of wh...

Public Service Announcement On INEC Voter Registration At Anambra Wards  This is to inform the public that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) will begin the Continuous Voter Registration exercise at all the 326 Wards in Anambra State beginning from Monday, 30 August 2021.  The address and location of the registration centre in each wards is published at the 21 LGA offices of INEC.  The exercise will end on Sunday, 5th September 2021.   The continuous voter registration (CVR) exercise is for the following categories of people:  1. New Registrants (that is, persons that are up to 18 years of age but who have not registered before) 2. Old registrants who have experienced any form of problem with accreditation in the past elections, such as failure to read their card, failed authentication process, fingerprint issues and when a voter has PVC but can’t find his or her name in the electoral Register 3. Old Registrants seeking transfer, collection of ...

PRESS RELEASE NIGERIA SIGNS MILITARY-TECHNICAL COOPERATION  AGREEMENT WITH RUSSIA Nigeria has signed a Military-Technical Cooperation Agreement with the Russian Federation. The Honourable Minister of Defence, Major General Bashir Salihi MAGASHI (Rtd), who is on an official visit to Russia, signed on behalf of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, while the Director of the Federal Service for Military-Technical Cooperation, Dmitry Shugaev, signed for the Russian Federation. The signing ceremony, which took place on 23 August 2021, was witnessed by the Nigerian Ambassador to the Russian Federation, His Excellency (Prof.) Abdullahi Y. SHEHU, the Chief of the Naval Staff, Vice Admiral Auwal Zubairu GAMBO, the Defence Attache in the Embassy of Nigeria in Moscow, Air Vice Marshal Olatokunbo ADESANYA, representatives of the Nigerian Army and the Nigerian Air Force, other senior Military officers, and officials of the Nigerian Ministry of Defence. This Agreement terminates the earlier Agreement...

30 Residents Die In Fresh Attacks In Jos, Several Houses Burnt Many people have been reportedly killed at Yelwan Zangam community in Jos North Local Government Area of Plateau State. According to Daily Trust, several houses were also burnt down in the attacks which reportedly claimed more than 30 lives. This is coming barely one week after 27 travelers were killed in Gada-biyu – Rukuba road, still in Jos North LGA. Yakubu Bagudu, a resident, confirmed the fresh attack on Wednesday morning. He said more than 30 people were killed, adding that security personnel had been deployed in the area. The Plateau State Police Command is to is yet to give details of the incident, as at the time of filing this report.

 STATEMENT CONCERNING SAMUEL ORTOM, THE GOVERNOR OF BENUE STATE Governor Samuel Ortom has few political principles. We can see this from the fact that he has changed political party five times during his undistinguished career. Every time he feels the wind may be blowing in a certain direction, he follows it. Unfortunately, for the good citizens of Benue State, the most dangerous direction he blows in today is that of sectarianism and ethnicity. In an attempt to boost his sinking political fortunes, Ortom takes the cheapest and lowest route possible by playing on ethnic themes – and in doing so knowingly causes deaths of innocent Nigerians by inciting farmers against herders, and Christians against Muslims. Specifically, Ortom stirs up hatred by targeting one single ethnic group in Nigeria – using language reminiscent of the Rwandan genocide. As was the case in Rwanda where the then Hutu leaders of the country incited their countrymen against each other, claiming there was a “secre...

The attack launched on the facility of the Nigerian Defence Academy (NDA) on Tuesday, rather than throw a dampener into the morale of our Armed Forces as it is intended to, will buoy their determination to make a decisive end of criminality in the country, President Muhammadu Buhari has said.   Noting that the attack, which led to loss of lives, came at a time that the military had put insurgents, bandits, kidnappers, and other types of criminals on the retreat, the President says the heinous action would accelerate the total uprooting of evil in the polity, which members of the Armed Forces are solidly resolved to accomplish in the shortest possible time.   Commiserating with the families who lost their loved ones, and praying God to comfort them, President Buhari vowed that the deceased would not die in vain, as the degenerate act would have consequences that will eventually clean the country of vermin, and emancipate the polity from deliberate, targeted and contrived atroci...