Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), have arrested the founder and General Overseer of Seraphic and Sabbath Assembly in Lagos, High Priest Nnodu Azuka Kenrick over Dubai-bound drugs The operatiave salso arrested a student of Emmanuel College of Theology in Ibadan, Udezuka Udoka, and freight agent, Oyoyo Mary Obasi. A statement issued […]
Former deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu and his wife plotted to bring a poor street trader to the UK to harvest his kidney for their daughter in exchange for up to £7,000 and the promise of a better life, a court has heard. Ike and Beatrice Ekweremadu, their 25-year-old daughter Sonia and medical “middleman” Dr. […]
Gunmen on Friday night attacked the Gure residence of the Labour Party’s House of Representatives candidate for Lere Federal Constituency in Kaduna State, Suleiman Tambaya, killing two. DIPLOMATIC DIARY gathered that Tambaya was away at a political meeting in the state capital, during the incident. The latest attack comes barely three months after gunmen killed the […]
Gunmen early Wednesday morning attacked the office of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), in Ojoto, Idemili South Local Government Area of Anambra State. The gunmen also attacked a police station in Nnobi, in the same local government area, and a residential building inside the station, where they killed a boy, and injured a girl. […]
The Nigeria Data Protection Bureau (NDPB) has commenced investigation into allegations of data breach by Guarantee Trust and Zenith Banks. The Buread in a statement issued on Monday by its ,Head,Legal Enforcement and Regulations, Babatunde Bamigboye, said the investigations were triggered by allegations of unlawful disclosure of banking records to a third party, unlawful access and processing […]
The Department of State Services (DSS) ha sarrested some members of organised syndicates selling the new redesigned naira notes. Although the DSS did not disclose the names and locations of the suspects, the agency said in a statement on Monday that some commercial bank officials were aiding and abetting the act. The statement signed by the […]
Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), have successfully dismantled a trans-border drug cartel and arrested five leaders of the syndicates operating in parts of the world in a special operation that lasted weeks during which different quantities of skunk, methamphetamine and ephedrine as well as air compressors used to conceal and distribute […]
A suspect linked to the Abuja-Kaduna train attack, Bello Yellow, has been arrested by vigilantes at Zuba town, in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). The suspect was arrested in the early hours of Sunday when he alighted from a car around Dan-Kogi Motor Park. A vigilante source told newsmen that the suspect was sighted by […]
The abductors of the Sole Administrator of the Ideato North Local Government Area of Imo State, Chris Ohizu, have beheaded him. Ohizu, who was kidnapped on Friday alongside two others, was slain after a ransom of N6million was allegedly paid to his abductors. In a viral video seen by DIPLOMATIC DIARY, Ohizu was seen kneeling […]
Desperate efforts to bring into Nigeria 126.95 kilograms of cocaine and skunk concealed in herbal tea packs and imported vehicles by drug cartels from Brazil and Canada have again been thwarted by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA at the Akanu Ibiam International Airport (AIIA), Enugu and the Tincan seaport in Lagos. […]
The coroner inquiring into the circumstances surrounding the cause of death of Sylvester Oromoni, a 12-year-old student of Dowen College, Lekki, on Monday, said the deceased died an avoidable natural death, blaming the passing of young Oromoni on parental and medical negligence. The Lagos coroner, Magistrate Mikhail Kadiri, stated in a 255-page judgement, on Monday, […]
The Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN), has restored the national grid after a partial failure following a fire incident at the Afam Power Generating Station, in River State. According to a statement by the spokesperson for the commission, Ndidi Mbah, the collapse led to the tripping of units at Afam III and Afam VI. “The […]
The State Working Committee of the Kano chapter of the All Progressive Congress (APC), has reversed the purported suspension of the party’s National Chairman, Umar Abdullahi Ganduje Leaders in Ganduje’s ward in Dawakin Tofa Local Government had, on Monday, suspended the APC national chairman. Halliru Gwanzo, the ward’s legal adviser, who disclosed this to newsmen […]
Nigeria’s electricity grid, operated from Osogbo in Osun State collapsed in the hour of today throwing the country into darkness amidst the increase in electricity tariff that pushed band A end-user rate to 225 kilowatt per hour (KWh). According to data from the Nigerian System Operator’s portal (niggrid.org), the grid went down from 2, 583 […]
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) says its operatives arrested 50,901 drug offenders including 46 barons, out of which a total 9,034 were successfully prosecuted and convicted in the past 38 months. Chairman/Chief Executive Officer of the agency, Brig Gen Mohamed Buba Marwa (Retd), who disclosed this on Monday said over 7,561 tonnes of ilicit […]
Nigerian inflation accelerated more than anticipated to a 28-year high, as the nation’s surging currency has yet to reflect on the cost of imported goods. Consumer prices rose an annual 33.2% from 31.7% in February, the National Bureau of Statistics said Monday in a statement published on its website. The new figure represents a 1.5% […]
Nigeria has called for restraint from all sides involved in the fresh conflict in the Middle East. In a statement on Sunday, spokesperson for Nigeria’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Francisca Omayuli, said, “The Federal Government of Nigeria joins other members of the international community to call on Iran and Israel to exercise restraint, as diplomatic […]
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) says it has not cleared anyone involved in the ongoing probe of the Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation, which led to the suspension of Betta Edu, the minister. In a statement on Sunday, the anti-graft agency said it has so far recovered N32.7 billion and $445,000 […]
Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), have intercepted a commercial bus conveying N3.2m counterfeit cash owned by three suspects including eight-month pregnant woman, Favour Peter (24); Esther Adukwu (27), and Ochigbo Michael (39), who were arrested at Jabi park in Abuja. Femi Babafemi, Spokesperson of the NDLEA, disclosed this in a press […]
The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP), has urged President Bola Tinubu to direct appropriate ministries, departments and agencies (MDAs) to provide copies of the loan agreements obtained by the governments of former presidents Olusegun Obasanjo, Umaru Musa Yar’Adua, Goodluck Jonathan and Muhammadu Buhari. In the Freedom of Information request dated 13 April 2024 and […]
