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A police inspector, Abali Zagi, has been arrested by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) in Lokoja, Kogi State with the Nigeria Police Force headquarters’ welfare bus loaded with 818.2kg of Cannabis Sativa. The NDLEA Commander, Muhammad Idris Bello, while parading the suspects, indicated that the police officer and two other accomplices were arrested along Lokoja-Okene road on their way from Okpeila. He said his patrol team had earlier allowed him a free pass but perceived the smell of weeds and decided to pursue the bus and arrested them.…

What seems to be a media war has erupted between the media aide of President Muhammadu Buhari, Mrs. Lauretta Onochie on one hand and both the Publisher of Ovation Magazine, Otunba Dele Momodu and the former aide of Ex-President Goodluck Jonathan, Reno Omokri on the other hand over the Ovation publisher’s comment that “Osinbajo is doing what Buhari failed to do.” Mr. Momodu had on his twitter handle and in a write-up said that President Buhari’s medical leave abroad has turned out to be a blessing owing that the Acting President, Yemi…

Mr. Mohammed Barkindo, the Secretary-General of the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries, OPEC, yesterday, disclosed that the worst days for Nigeria due to the low price of crude oil were over. He said Nigeria’s ability to weather the storms of the low price of crude oil was a miracle. Speaking during a courtesy visit to the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Dr. Ibe Kachikwu, Barkindo said confidence was returning to the Nigerian petroleum industry, due largely to the major macro-economic decisions taken last year by OPEC and non-OPEC member…

First Bank of Nigeria has launched the FirstLounge at the Murtala Mohammed airport, Lagos. Speaking at the event was the managing director, FirstBank, Dr. Adesola Adeduntan who said, “our cardinal principle at first bank is to always put customers, all our clients and other stake holders first; If you look around, with what we have presented here today, the lounge was specifically designed to give our customers and other users of the lounge maximum comfort.” He continued, “all the facilities that you could think of that you should have in…

Ekuigbo Secondary School, Ughelli, Delta State has been shut by Ughelli Zone of the Post-Primary Education Board. This was made known by the Permanent Secretary, Williams Orutu, yesterday. He said the board decided to shut the school following attacks on teachers and the destruction of property worth millions of naira by the students. Giving details of the attack, which occurred on February 16, Mr. Orutu said that eight students of the school were apprehended by the Ekuigbo community vigilante and handed over to the police for prosecution. He said: “Following…

Isiaq Yusuf popularly called I.G. Yusuf, a lecturer in the English Department of Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida University, Lapai, Niger State, has become an object of ridicule after he was caught naked in his student’s apartment. The fiancé of the 400-level student and his friend, who caught Yusuf while he was allegedly prepared to have sex with her, made him to mop the living room, wash the toilet, and took his nude pictures, which had gone viral. The lecturer had reportedly insisted on sleeping with the student so she could pass ENG…

Yemi Osinbajo, Nigeria’s Acting President, on Sunday felicitated with former President and elder Statesman, Alhaji Shehu Shagari, on his 92nd birthday. Yakubu Dogara, Speaker of the House of Representatives and former President Goodluck Jonathan had similarly congratulated Shagari. In a statement by Mr Laolu Akande, his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Osinbajo said he joined all Nigerians and Shagari’s family in celebrating selfless service, leadership and steadfast commitment to Nigeria. He said that decades after serving as the second republic President of Nigeria, Shagari had continued to advance…