The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) says it has began enforcement on the ban of production and sale of alcohol in sachet and pet bottle below 200ml. The Director-General of NAFDAC, Prof. Mojisola Adeyeye, disclosed this at a media parley, organised by the agency, on
Wives of detained operatives of Osun Security Network Agency (Amotekun Corps), on Tuesday staged a peaceful protest to the Ooni of Ife’s palace in Osun, seeking intervention for the release of their detained husbands. The protesters, seeking Ooni Adeyeye Ogunwusi’s intervention, carried placards with inscriptions like: “Children of Detained Innocent
The Centre for the Promotion of Private Enterprise (CPPE) has expressed concern over renewed calls in some quarters for the imposition of additional taxes on sugar-sweetened non-alcoholic beverages in Nigeria. CPPE Founder, Dr Muda Yusuf, made this known on Wednesday in Lagos via a statement. Accorsing to Yusuf, while public
Governor Uba Sani of Kaduna state has promised that his administration, in collaboration with other security agencies, will ensure the safe return of all those who were abducted in Kurmin Wali village on Sunday. The Governor made this pledge on Wednesday when he led a large delegation of senior government
The Federal High Court, Abuja on Wednesday, ordered the Independent National Electoral Commission, (INEC) to recognised a former Minister of Finance, Sen. Nenadi Usman, as the valid leader of the Labour Party (LP). In a judgment delivered by Justice Peter Lifu, the court relied on the April 4, 2025 verdict
Troops of the Joint Task Force North East Operation HADIN KAI (OPHK) have discovered a mass grave containing corpses of about 20 terrorists neutralised by troops during operations in Timbuktu Triangle in Borno. This was contained in a statement on Wednesday by Lt.-Col. Sani Uba, the Media Information Officer of
The Federal High Court in Abuja, on Wednesday, admitted Bauchi State Commissioner for Finance, Yakubu Adamu, and his co-defendants to bail in the sum of N100 million each in the alleged 9.7 million dollars terrorism financing offences. Justice Mohammed Umar, in a ruling, held that Adamu and his co-defendants had
A 55-year-old security guard, Mohammed Aminu on Wednesday, appeared before a Magistrates’ Court in Asokoro, Abuja, in answer to charges bordering on alleged defilement of a teenager. The defendant who resides at F Close N0_3, Kado, FCT, is standing trial on a two-count charge bordering on abduction and committing unnatural
No fewer than seven people were injured as a two-storey building under construction collapsed in Akure on Tuesday. Speaking with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), an eye witness who preferred anonymity, said workers at the building site were victims of the collapse and had been taken to hospital for
.Honours 166 NDLEA personnel, 17 Commands .Charges officers to go all out against drug cartels, barons Chairman/Chief Executive Officer of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), Brig Gen Mohamed Buba Marwa (Rtd), has declared that with an outstanding record of 77,792 arrests including 128 barons, 14,225 convictions and over