Author: Safiu Kehinde

Safiu Kehinde The National Agency for Food and Drugs Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has seized over N41.2 million worth of fake wines and spirits in Nasarawa state. This was disclosed in a post on the agency’s official X handle on Monday. As contained in the statement, NAFDAC operatives had conducted major raid on wine shops in Maraba market and the New Nyanya and Masaka area of the statement. The counterfeit wines were discovered in the course of the raid. “NAFDAC has conducted a major raid on wine shops in Mararaba Market and the New Nyanya and Masaka areas of Nasarawa…

Agency Report The Lagos Environmental Sanitation Corps (LAGESC), popularly known as KAI, says it has dislodged occupants of 84 rooms constructed under Eko Bridge at Elegbata, on the Lagos Island. Its Corps Marshal, retired Maj. Olanini Cole, disclosed this in a statement in Lagos on Monday by the agency’s Spokesperson, Mr Lukman Ajayi. Cole said that one person who allegedly built an eight-room toilet and linked the pipes into the Lagoon was also arrested during the operation. He said that the operation was carried out after a member of the public was attacked at the spot. He added that the…

Safiu Kehinde The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has confirmed the arrival of sensitive materials ahead on the November 16 Ondo Governorship Election. This was disclosed in a post on the electoral body’s official X handle on Monday. INEC said the materials, conveyed by the Nigerian Air Force, were received by the officials of the Central Bank of Nigeria following its arrival in Akure, Ondo state’s capital. “Sensitive materials for the Ondo State Governorship election, scheduled for Saturday 16th November 2024 have arrived in Akure, the State capital, and received by officials of the Central Bank of Nigeria. “The materials…

Safiu Kehinde At least two people have been shot dead by unknown gunmen, while two others sustained bullet injuries in Abeokuta, Ogun state, on Monday. This was confirmed in statement issued by Ogun State Police Command’s spokesperson, SP Omolola Odutola. According to the statement, the incident occurred at about 12:30a.m in the parking lot of Diamond Dumplings, GRA, Abeokuta. Odutola stated that three armed men in an unregistered black Toyota Hilux confronted the occupants of a black Mercedes Benz GLE 350 with a DLA number plate, demanding the car key. “Three armed men in an unregistered black Toyota Hilux confronted…

Safiu Kehinde A coalition of groups, under the aegis of ‘We Are Stronger Together Movement’, has condemned the call by aggrieved groups for the sack of the current leadership of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC). The Movement said on Monday in Yenagoa that rather than the sack of the current management, all Niger Delta groups should close ranks in interest of all. It would be recalled that two groups, Coalition of Niger Delta Civil Society Organizations (CNDCSO) and the Niger Delta Ex-Agitators’ Forum, had urged the public to protest against the NDDC on Nov 25. The groups said that…

Safiu Kehinde The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has denied alleged threat to arrest, detain and prosecute Lagos state governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, after his tenure while urging the Federal High Court in Abuja not to grant the reliefs sought by the governor. Describing Sanwo-Olu’s fundamental right enforcement suit as speculative. EFCC, in its counter affidavit, told Justice Joyce Abdulmalik that the governor’s action in the instant suit is a mere speculation. Recall that NPO reported that Sanwo-Olu, through his counsel, Darlington Ozurumba, had sued the anti-graft agency as sole defendant over alleged threat to arrest, detain and prosecute him…

Safiu Kehinde The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has declared NIVEA Black & White Roll- On manufactured in Nigeria safe for public use. This was contained in the update it issued on its initial Safety Alert Notification of October 31, 2024 regarding NIVEA BLACK & WHITE Invisible Roll-on deodorant (50 ml) batch number 93529610, in relation to the general European Union (EU) Rapid Alert System for Dangerous Non-Food Products (RAPEX). The latest update issued on the agency’s official website and dated November 2, 2024, confirmed the safety of the NIVEA BLACK & WHITE Invisible Roll-on…

Safiu Kehinde Political activist and Sahara Reporters Publisher, Omoleye Sowore has claimed that Nigeria must break for Igbos to survive. Sowore made this claim during a podcast session shared on X on Monday. Speaking at the podcast titled the Honest Bunch, the 2023 Presidential candidate of the African Action Congress (AAC) alleged that there is a secret memo in the government that deprives the Igbos of political representation as they were considered problem to Nigeria. He however claimed, in the podcast snippet, that Igbo’s survival in Nigeria lies in the split of the country. “Nigeria has an Igbo problem. There…

Haitian Prime Minister Garry Conille has been fired by the country’s ruling council less than six months after he took office. An executive order, signed by eight of the council’s nine members, named businessman and former Haiti Senate candidate Alix Didier Fils-Aime as Conille’s replacement. Conille, a former United Nations official, was brought in to lead Haiti through an ongoing, gang-led security crisis and had been expected to help pave the way for the country’s first presidential elections since 2016. He described his ousting as illegal, saying in a letter – seen by Reuters news agency – that it raised…

Agency Report Human Rights advocacy group, Women Concerns, has called on Reuters News Agency to apologise to the Nigerian military over unsubstantiated allegations of forced abortion in its counter-insurgency operations in the North East. The Convener of the group, Aishatu Balarabe, made the call in a statement on Monday in Abuja. Balarabe said that the international news agency falsely alleged that the military deliberately attacked women and children or carried out secret abortions in its fight against Islamist insurgency. She said that the Reuters report had been discredited by the Nigeria’s Human Rights Commission (NHRC) after it carried out thorough…