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The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has recovered 548,000 tramadol tablets branded as “Tarkadol” at Nkwelle, Oyi Local Government Area, Anambra State. Its Director, Media and Advocacy, Mr Femi Babafemi, said this in a statement made available to News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Sunday in Abuja. Babafemi said the drugs were seized at the warehouse of a major drug kingpin, Okeke Chijioke, of No. 3, Atunya street, Maryland Estate, Nkwelle. He said Okeke’s arrest on Saturday 10th July, followed credible intelligence and surveillance, which confirmed he stocked his warehouse with the illicit drug. According to him, after the…

Between 15 and 17 people are missing after a vessel sank off the coast of southeastern Liberia, the West African state’s government and coastguard said Sunday. Search and rescue operations are ongoing, a coastguard official said at a news conference in the capital Monrovia. He added that some people had been rescued on Saturday night as the ship was sinking. The head of Liberia’s Maritime Authority Eugene Lenn Nagbe told reporters that the vessel in question had earlier been placed “under detention orders” because it was unseaworthy. Details about the sinking remain sketchy, however. Liberian daily FrontPage Africa reported on Saturday night…

The minister of the interior, Rauf Aregbesola, has said that more women should be encouraged to join the newly formed female squad of the Nigeria Security and Civil defense Corps, (NSCDC), as well as other sister security agencies in order to strengthen the fight against insecurity in the country as women are known to be more determined on the realization of set goals. The minister made the case during the launching of the NSCDC Gender Policy Document, organized in partnership with Partners West Africa Nigeria, (PWAN), the United Nations Women, (UN Women), and the federal ministry of women’s affairs, with…

Southeast zone of the PDP on Saturday in Abuja expressed optimism that its candidate would emerge victorious at the Nov. 6 governorship election in Anambra. This is in spite of the fact that INEC did not include the name of a candidate for the PDP in the list of candidates it released on Friday.’ Mr Augustine Okeke, Publicity Secretary of its Caretaker Committee said in a statement that the party was sure of victory going by the considerable public interest and commentaries that followed INEC’s action. He said the interests and commentaries indicated that PDP remained the peoples’ choice. “The…

Chelsea’s France attacker Olivier Giroud has completed his move to AC Milan, the Italian club announced on Saturday. The 34-year-old World Cup winner underwent a medical on Friday before signing with the Serie A runners-up who return to the Champions League next season after a seven-year absence. “AC Milan are delighted to announce the signing of Olivier Jonathan Giroud on a permanent transfer from Chelsea,” the club said in a statement without giving details of the duration which Italian media reported is for two years. “The French striker will be wearing the number 9 jersey.” Chelsea extended Giroud’s contract last…

Sokoto State Governor, Aminu Waziri Tambuwal, has faulted the decision of the Nigerian Senate to grant the Nigerian Communications Commission the power to determine the electronic transmission of results in the country. Tambuwal, who was a former speaker of the Federal House of Representatives, made this known in a statement titled ‘Electronic transmission of votes: Senate decision is unconstitutional’. He described the Senate’s decision as “unconstitutional”, saying the mode of conducting elections and the transmission of votes should be left with INEC. The statement read, “The decision of the Senate to subject INECs constitutional power to conduct elections to the…

The Ekiti State Government has appealed to the resident doctors to suspend their indefinite strike embarked upon to protest against delay in the payment of salaries. Medical practitioners under the auspices of Association of Resident Doctors, Ekiti State University Teaching Hospital chapter, had last Wednesday declared indefinite strike to press home their demand for payment of their June salaries. A statement issued in Ado Ekiti yesterday by the state Commissioner for Health, Dr. Oyebanji Filani, insisted that the welfare of health workers was a priority of the Governor Kayode Fayemi’s administration. Filani dispelled the insinuation that the state government doesn’t…

The House of Representatives Friday passed the Electoral Act Amendment Bill, as the minority caucus staged a walkout, following the refusal by the presiding chairman, Ahmed Idris Wade, to retake the amendment to clause 52 which seeks to allow electronic transmission (e-transmission) of election results. The minority caucus briefing journalists later said they are totally disappointed in the Deputy Speaker, as well as the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) team, who they said told blatant lies about not having adequate network coverage to enable electronic transmission of results. [ThisDay]

Drops name of deputy, as court commences full hearing Sept 29 The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Friday amended its processes by asking the Federal High Court, Abuja to remove the name of Zamfara Deputy Governor, Mahadi Gusau, from its suit seeking his removal and that of the Governor, Bello Matawalle, from office over defection from the PDP to the All Progressives Congress (APC). Two chieftains of the PDP in Zamfara State, had last month prior to Matawalle’s defection, approached the court to sack both Matawalle and Gusau if and when they decided to leave the party which brought them…

The Independent National Electoral Commission INEC has published the list of candidates for the November 6 Governorship Election in Anambra State. The electoral umpire, in the list published on Friday, dropped the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party PDP, Mr Valentine Ozigbo. INEC national commissioner and the chairman of its Information and Voter Education Committee, Festus Okoye, said the decision was based on obedience to a court order. A High Court of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) in Abuja had on Thursday ordered INEC to suspend the moves to publish any name as the governorship candidate of the party in…