NDLEA Recruitment: Final List For Successful Candidates Out For Screening, Full Details The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has released a shortlist for the final screening of qualified candidates for narcotic officers and narcotic assistants cadres. Its Director, Media and Advocacy, Mr Femi Babafemi, announced this in a statement on Saturday in Abuja. NDLEA Recruitment The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the screening exercise, which was suspended in January due to the COVID-19 pandemic, will now proceed in batches in designated centres. NDLEA Recruitment Babafemi said the screening for NDLEA headquarters Abuja candidates within the recruitment categories…
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BREAKING: Another Lockdown Set To Hit As Many States Record New COVID-19 Cases, Full Details Nigeria has reported 39 new COVID-19 cases with Lagos State recording the highest number of the new infections, according to figures released on Friday by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control. This was contained in a release published on the official Twitter handle of the NCDC on Friday. According to the agency, the 39 new COVID-19 cases have brought the number of confirmed cases in the country to 165,340. According to the NCDC, the 39 new cases were reported from 8 states- Lagos (23), FCT…
Ramadan Fast: How Youths Take Drugs To ‘Suppress’ Hunger Some Muslim youths are engaging in illicit drugs to suppress the impact of fasting during the Ramadan period. Some of these youths continue to take hard drugs like codeine, heroin and tramadol during Sahoor (pre-dawn meal) to be able to ignore the pangs of hunger during the daytime. One of them, a young woman who craved anonymity, told Daily Trust that even in Ramadan she takes codeine and heroin. Ramadan Fast “Honestly, I take codeine during my Sahoor. If I don’t take it, I suffer a lot,” she said, adding that…
Man Shoots Wife Dead After He Found Her In A Car With Another Man A reports reaching us that, Man Shoots Wife Dead After He Found Her In A Car With Another Man, attempts suicide This comes after a 34-year-old man from Seshego caught his 32-year-old wife with another man inside a car in a parking lot. He allegedly pulled out a gun after an argument started between him and his wife, who is a bank employee. He then allegedly fired several shots, killing her instantly. The other man, believed to been having an affair with the woman, managed to…
EXPOSED: How Army Shuns Southern Officers, Deploys Northern Commanders To Quell Tension In South-East The Nigerian Army’s deployment of northern officers for its operations in the South-East region is contributing to the tension in the region, according to several military sources The army posted Muslim and non-Igbo personnel as commanders over its operations and brigades in Anambra, Imo, Abia, Akwa Ibom, Enugu, Benue, Edo, Delta and Rivers. The commanders are mainly from the north, while a few are from the South-West. Army Shuns Southern Officers In Anambra State, the Cantonment Commandant of the 302 Artillery Regiment, Onitsha, is Col Abdulsalam…
SHOCKING: How We Sell The Money Receive From People To Herbalist, Professional Beggar Confesses, Full Details “As for the fate of those giving them alms, the woman said they are doomed because the money making rituals will affect their fortune in life and they may find it difficult to make it because their prosperity has been transferred through fetish and diabolical means” A 51-year-old woman professional beggar has confessed that she sells money received from ‘Good Samaritan’ as alms to herbalists and Alfas for money making rituals to ruin and impoverish the giver. Confessing after she was nabbed at a…
We’ll Make Kaduna Unsafe, Bandits Vowed Give Reasons Why We’ll Make Kaduna Unsafe, Bandits The 27 kidnapped students of the Federal College of Forestry Mechanisation, Afaka, Kaduna State, who were reunited with their families after 56 days in captivity, have shared ugly experiences in the hands of the bandits. The freed students lamented on Friday that some of the bandits are foreigners, adding that they all vowed to make Kaduna State unsafe until the government was ready to “settle with them.” Tears of joy flowed freely from both parents and their children. Kaduna Unsafe At about 3pm, the entire premises…
Top Police Officer Stabs To Death Information reaching us that a Top Police Officer Stabs To Death The Police Command in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) said one of its officers, ASP Ezekiel Adama, was on Friday stabbed to death during a violent protest in Abuja. The Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO) in the FCT, ASP Mariam Yusuf, disclosed this in a statement in Abuja. Yusuf said that the deceased, deployed to restore calm during a protest by members of the disbanded Islamic Movement of Nigeria (IMN), was stabbed to death by one of the protesters. She said that the…
FG Borrowed $5.9 Billion To Fight COVID-19, Ahmed The federal government of nigeria borrowed about $5.9 billion in 2020, to tackle the COVID-19 pandemic and implement its budget. The Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Mrs. Zainab Ahmed, revealed this yesterday. A statement issued by her Special Adviser, Media and Communications, Mr. Yunusa Abdullahi, yesterday, indicated that the minister told the Collaborative Africa Budget Reform Initiative (CABRI) General Assembly during a webinar, that the federal government had to move quickly to save the economy. FG Borrowed $5.9 Billion Speaking on Nigeria’s fiscal response – short term interventions and impact…
Friends Beat Man To Death For Stealing N3,000, Phones A reports reaching us that Friends Beat Man To Death For Stealing N3,000, Phones A middle-aged man simply identified as Christian, has allegedly been beaten to death by a group of friends over allegations that he stole their N3,000.00 and phones. The incident happened in Orerokpe, Okpe Local Government Area of Delta State. Two persons including Efe Lucky and Ramson Akpojibu have been arrested by the police in connection with the jungle justice. The suspects had rushed the victim to a clinic in Warri where he was confirmed dead. Acting Public…