Author: Saint Augustine

The Chairman, Nigerian Drug Law and Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), Col. Muhammad Abdallah has said that 77,558 persons were arrested for drug trafficking between 2016 and 2015. The Chairman who was represented by Mr. Kayode Adeniyi said this at a one day seminar hosted by Crime reporters at Renaissance Marriot Hotel to mark the International Day against Drug and Human Trafficking. Mr. Adeniyi said that the business of drug trafficking was usually motivated by the profit which was tagged the most lucrative generating about $320billion dollars per annum. “The NDLEA first discovered a methamphetamine laboratory at Maza-Maza area of Lagos in…

School children, business owners and market women have been forced indoors today by cultists in Mowe and its environs. Our correspondent gathered that a dreaded cult group called Aye fraternity had issued warning to the communities’ leaders hinting that today, July 7 is the day they observe annually for their ritual rites. Rumours of possible clash between rival cults also rammed through the communities last night throwing residents of Mowe and neighbouring communities into palpable fears that led to closure of schools, shops and markets in the area today. A resident of green town with hundreds of schools as major…

…Over 500 jobs already created, Staff trained in Lagos and Abuja In line with the Aku Lue Uno philosophy of the present administration in Anambra state, a state of the art ultra-modern luxury centre known as Stanel World would be commissioned today, by Governor Willie Obiano in Awka, the State Capital. The mega centre which is the first of its kind in the South East geopolitical zone of the country is located close to UNIZIK Main Gate, Awka. According to the Chief Executive Officer of Stanel World, Mr. Stanley Uzochukwu, the mega center would operate for 24 hours with home…

The Nigeria Police has announced its 5th regular course examination into the Nigeria Police Academy, Wudil, Kano. In a press statement released by the Police Public Relation Officer, Lagos State Police Command, ASP Olarinde Famous-Cole, “selection into the Academy for candidates in Lagos is scheduled to hold on July 8, 2017”. “The venue for the 2017 selection exercise is the Police College, (PCI), Ikeja”. The statement also revealed that screening of candidates kicks off at 6:00am while the examination begins by 10:00am same day. While candidates are advised to arrive early and keep to time, the statement stressed that all…

The Governor of Anambra state, Chief Willie Obiano has described as an avoidable controversy argument raging over a week now over which of the governments constructed the Federal Government College Road Nise in Awka South Local Government Area of the state. A statement issued in Awka yesterday by the Chairman of Governor Obiano’s Media Team, Mr. Chuks Iloegbunam said that Governor Obiano had a surefeit of accomplishments that he neither needed nor coveted the accomplishments of his his brother governors so as to boost his legacy. Iloegbunam maintained that the Governor had insisted in all circumstances that never should the…

Lagos State Police Command has again crackdown on another criminal hideouts in Ikorodu. According to top police source who hinted worldtopnewsng.com, on the crackdown said the strike was done base on intelligence report reaching them. The source said, “The crackdown was timely, after we got the information by our intelligence team, we storm there and cracked down on their hideouts”. The source said Commissioner of Police in the state, CP Fatai Owoseni has directed his Deputy in-charge for Operations, DCP Edgar Imohimi and other security chiefs in the state to ensure all bad elements Ikorodu got wiped out. According to…

The management of the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) has called on stakeholders in the maritime sub sector to collaborate amongst each other with the view to sustaining the Presidential Orders on port operations. Similarly it has also put in place effective machinery to comprehensively review the progress and challenges associated with the strive to ensure broad actualization of the executive orders. These were part of the contents of the Managing Director of NPA, Hadiza Bala Usman’s statement during an inter-agency interactive session on the subject at the corporate headquarters of the organization, Marina Lagos. She enjoined agencies in the maritime…

The Lagos State Police Command has advised the general public to come forward with any information that could lead to the rescue and insight to the alleged abduction of one Yusuf Ogundare, the Baale of Shangisha. A statement issued in Lagos Thursday by the command’s Public Relations Officer (PRO), ASP Olarinde Famous-Cole noted that one Mohammed Adams, Male of No.1 Mutairu Street Shangisha, on the 5th of July, 2017 at about 1330hrs reported to the Police that about 1200hrs on the  said day, he accompanied his brother named Yusuf Ogundare, Male, the Baale of Shangisha to CMD Guest House, Shangisha,…

Managing Director of the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA), Ms Hadiza Bala-Usman has welcomed the decision of the Nigerian Senate to look into the activities of the Joint Venture Enterprises of the NPA, namely: the Lagos Channel Management, the Bonny Channel Company, and the Calabar Channel Management Company Limited, as raised in a motion on the floor of the Senate on Wednesday. In a statement signed by Ibrahim Nasiru, a Principal Manager, Public Affairs at the Authority, the NPA explained that its current administration had on assumption of duties, identified the challenge and taken immediate steps to address the unacceptable situation.…

The National President of the Association of Nigerian Licensed Customs Agents (ANLCA), Prince Olayiwola Shittu has said that people paying money and getting their way into the ports is the easiest way to overturn the executive orders issued recently by the Acting President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo. Shittu disclosed this while reacting to a notice issued recently by the leadership of the National Association of Government Approved Freight Forwarders (NAGAFF) to its members urging them to register and pay the Council for the Regulation of Freight Forwarding (CRFFN) stipulated fees to enable them get port pass from the Nigerian Ports Authority…