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  The Chairman of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, Brigadier General Mohammed Buba Marwa (retd.), has lost his first wife, Hajiya Zainab Marwa. A statement by the family on Saturday said Zainab Marwa died in the early hours of the day at the age of 66 after a brief ...

  The owner of Hilton hotel, Prince Ramon Adedoyin has been further indicted in the circumstances that led to the death of Timothy Adegoke, a masters student of OAU who died at the hotel some months ago. He was said to have been gruesomely murdered and buried by staffers of ...

  A Kenyan police officer from Koromotangi village in Kakamega County has reportedly committed suicide over an alleged salary delay. Abel Kemboi was found dead on Wednesday, January 5, after complaining to friends and relatives that his December salary had been delayed. Before committing suicide, Kemboi reportedly said he would ...

  Viewers who watched President Muhammadu Buhari’s interview on Wednesday must have been bemused after the president gave two contradictory responses about his preferred candidate for 2023 presidential election. Buhari spoke about the economy, insecurity, his reservations about the recently signed 2022 budget and his refusal to give assent to ...

  Scores of students of the University of Ibadan have fled their private hostels located at Agbowo area and other adjoining streets due to the invasion of the hostels by armed robbers. Armed hoodlums who were said to have distributed themselves into groups of about 12 each reportedly invaded the ...

Police has Misplaced over 88,000 AK-47 Rifles – Report The Office of Nigeria’s Auditor General of the federation reported that over 88 thousand AK-47 rifles have been unaccounted for as of December 2018. This was disclosed by Nigeria’s Auditor General, Adolphus Aghughu in its weapons review of police armouries, according ...

Why We’ll Miss Hon Adetoun Adediran, Lagos Speaker Obasa Mourns Ex-Lawmaker The Speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Rt. Hon. Mudashiru Obasa, has described the demise of Hon. Adetoun Adediran, a former Deputy Speaker of the State as shocking. The late Adediran served as a member of the ...

  The federal government has released the official gazette categorizing bandits as terrorists. A federal high court sitting in Abuja had on November 26 proscribed Yan Bindiga and Yan Ta’adda bandit groups and subsequently declared their activities as acts of terrorism. THE WHISTLER reported that Justice Taiwo Taiwo, presiding judge, ...

  Rivers State Police Command has disclosed that the organisers of the music concert held in Buguma, Asari-Toru Local Government Area, Rivers State, which was disrupted when a popular Nigerian artist, Teniola Akpata, popularly known as Teni, was performing last week did not apply for security prior to the event. ...

  The Federal Government has imposed a N10 per liter excise duty tax on all non-alcoholic, carbonated and sweetened beverages. The excise duty tax is one of the amendments made in the Finance Act 2022 which was signed into law by President Muhammadu Buhari on December 31 last year. The ...