Category: Security / Safety

Osun To Establish State Security Trust Fund
January 22, 2024 No Responses

Osun To Establish State Security Trust Fund

As part of efforts to secure lives and property of residents in Osun State, Governor Ademola Adeleke has directed the establishment of a State Security Trust Fund as a matter of urgency. In response to logistic and operational needs of...
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FRSC: 5,081 Persons Died In Road Crashes Nationwide In 2023
January 22, 2024 No Responses

FRSC: 5,081 Persons Died In Road Crashes Nationwide In 2023

No fewer than 5,01 people were killed in Road Traffic Crashes in 2023 nationwide, the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), has disclosed.  According to FRSC, this is against 6,456 in 2022, representing 21 per cent reduction. The Corps Marshal, Dauda...
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NSC Decries Rail Tracks Vandalism 
January 18, 2024 No Responses

NSC Decries Rail Tracks Vandalism 

The Nigerian Shippers’ Council (NSC) has expressed concern over the vandalism and theft of railway tracks connecting inland ports across the country. The council’s Executive Secretary, Pius Akutah, raised the concern on Tuesday while inspecting the Funtua ...
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Tin Can Customs Targets N1.130Trilion In 2024
January 17, 2024 No Responses

Tin Can Customs Targets N1.130Trilion In 2024

For the year 2024 fiscal year, the Tin Can Island Command, Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has set a revenue target of N1.130tillion.  Meanwhile, the Command has announced a revenue generation of N716bn for last year as against 801bn target it...
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Archbishop Martins Decries Renewed Plateau Killings, Kidnappings
January 10, 2024 No Responses

Archbishop Martins Decries Renewed Plateau Killings, Kidnappings

The Catholic Archbishop of Lagos, Most Rev. Alfred Adewale Martins has said that the renewed wave of killings and kidnappings in Plateau State and other parts of the country by terrorists suggests that the government is gradually losing the battle...
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NDLEA Intercepts Hard Drugs From US
January 8, 2024 No Responses

NDLEA Intercepts Hard Drugs From US

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has intercepted a consignment of ‘Colorado’, a very strong strain of cannabis, concealed in boxing kits imported from the United States of America. Disclosing this in a statement on Sunday, NDLEA spokesman, ...
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Customs Boss Orders Release Of Impounded Access Bank’s Bullion Van
January 7, 2024 No Responses

Customs Boss Orders Release Of Impounded Access Bank’s Bullion Van

Twenty-one months after, the Comptroller-General of Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Adewale Adeniyi has ordered the release of an Access Bank bullion van caught in April 2022, loaded with 12 bags of rice. The Ogun Area Command II of Customs Service Area...
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Tinubu Tasks Security Chiefs On Victory Against Insurgency
January 6, 2024 No Responses

Tinubu Tasks Security Chiefs On Victory Against Insurgency

President Bola Tinubu has challenged the nation’s security chiefs to ensure that there is conclusive victory against the myriad of security threats assailing the country.  Addressing security chiefs and heads of intelligence agencies at a Presidenti...
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FRSC Appoints New Spokesperson, Others
January 3, 2024 No Responses

FRSC Appoints New Spokesperson, Others

The Corps Marshal, Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), Dauda Ali Biu has approved major shakeup in the top hierarchy of the organization.  A statement issued on Tuesday by Deputy Corps Public Education Officer, Corps Commander Charles Edem explained that Bi...
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MSC Containership Attacked In Red Sea
December 28, 2023 No Responses

MSC Containership Attacked In Red Sea

MSC United, a Post Panamax containership owned by Swiss-based Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC), was attacked while transiting the Red Sea. The attack was confirmed by the Yemeni Armed Forces’ Spokesperson Yahya Sare’e, saying that the ship was targeted...
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NDLEA Impounds 1,458.709kgs Of Illicit Drugs
December 27, 2023 No Responses

NDLEA Impounds 1,458.709kgs Of Illicit Drugs

The Kaduna State Command of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has seized 1,458,709kgs of illicit substances. A statement on Tuesday by the agency’s Press Officer, Shuaibu Omalem, explained that the seized illicit drugs included cocai...
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Lagos Shuts Quilox Night Club
December 25, 2023 No Responses

Lagos Shuts Quilox Night Club

Citing safety and other environmental infractions,the Lagos State Government has shut down Quilox  Night Club located in Victoria Island.  Officials of the Lagos State Environmental Protection Agency (LASEPA) and the Lagos State Safety Commissio...
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Lagos Begins Clampdown On Tankers, Trailers Along Apapa-Oshodi Expressway
December 21, 2023 No Responses

Lagos Begins Clampdown On Tankers, Trailers Along Apapa-Oshodi Expressway

The Lagos State Government has ordered all tankers and trailers to immediately vacate the Cele Bus Stop Inward Tin Can Port axis, along the Apapa-Oshodi expressway and stop indiscriminate parking along that axis. The Special Adviser on Transportation to t...
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NPA Burst Fake Electronic Call-Up Syndicate
December 18, 2023 No Responses

NPA Burst Fake Electronic Call-Up Syndicate

As part of measures to tackle activities of unpatriotic elements sabotaging its electronic truck traffic management (e- CallUp) system also know as “to” the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) and security agents recently undertook a spot check of the M...
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