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September 5, 2025 No Responses

AIG At FRSC Zonal Command, Harp On Inter-Agency Collaboration

The Assistant Inspector General (AIG) of Police, Zone 2, Lagos, Adegoke Fayoade, has pledged to boost inter-agency collaboration between the Nigeria Police Force and the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) within Lagos and Ogun states.He made the pledge when he...

August 31, 2025 No Responses

Opinion: Overzealous Lagos Security Agents Risk Sparking A Revolt

If an uprising similar to those witnessed during the Arab Spring ever erupts in Nigeria, its epicentre will likely be Lagos.The reason is not far-fetched. In Lagos, the conduct of many uniformed security and traffic enforcement officials has become increasingl...

July 25, 2025 No Responses

Customs Intercepts 4,119 Bags Of Rice At Seme Border

Between July 1 and 19th, 2025, the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Seme Area Command, intercepted five trucks carrying 2,800 bags of 50kg foreign rice, with a Duty Paid Value of ₦919.5 million.The command also impounded 1,319 additional bags of rice,...

April 25, 2025 No Responses

Gunmen Kidnap 15 Travellers

Gunmen on Thursday abducted not less than 15 travellers in the Gwer West Local Government Area of Benue State. It was gathered that the victims were kidnapped along Adoka-Naka Road. Speaking to journalists on the incident, the Secretary of the...

March 31, 2025 No Responses

PDP Tackles Okpebholo Over Security Challenges In Edo

Edo State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has blamed Governor Monday Okpebholo for the ‘security situation” in the state, which the party linked to the recent killing of travelers in Uromi. In a statement signed by the Edo...

January 24, 2025 No Responses

Senate Rejects Securities Tribunal’s 2025 Budget

The Senate Committee on Capital Market has rejected the 2025 budget proposal of the Investments and Securities Tribunal (IST) owing to discrepancies and errors in the figures and items presented. The decision was made on Thursday during the tribunal’s budget...

December 27, 2024 No Responses

Nigerian Air Force Records 20,000 Flight Hours In 2024

The Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshal Hasan Abubakar, has commended operatives of the Nigerian Air Force for their resilience in 2024, saying the Force has logged nearly 20,000 flight hours in the course of its operations within the year....

December 23, 2024 No Responses

FG Lifts Ban On Mining In Zamfara

Five years after, the Federal Government has lifted the ban on mining activities in Zamfara State. A statement issued on Sunday by the Ministry’s spokesman, Segun Tomori explained that the Minister of Solid Minerals Development, Dele Alake, disclosed t...

December 12, 2024 No Responses

NIMASA Harps On Support, Protection For Nigerian Dockworkers

The safety of dockworkers in their workplace is a right and not a privilege, the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA),declared and Wednesday and urged employers of labour to renew their commitment to improved workplace safety for the Nig...

November 4, 2024 No Responses

NDLEA Seizes N4.5b Cocaine At Lagos Airport

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has curtailed efforts by members of an international drug syndicate operating between Brazil, Ethiopia and Nigeria to smuggle into Nigeria 845 wraps of cocaine weighing 18.72 kilogrammes through Murtala Muhammed...

September 16, 2024 No Responses

Nigeria Declares 281 Inmates Missing

The Nigerian Correctional Service has declared 281 inmates missing in the medium correctional centre in Maiduguri after the evacuation of inmates by officers of the service with support from sister security agencies. A statement by the service spokesman Abubak...

August 25, 2024 No Responses

Why I Resigned As NIA DG, By Ahmed Abubakar

The Director General, National Intelligence Agency (NIA), Ahmed Abubakar, on Saturday tendered his resignation letter to President Bola Tinubu. Briefing journalists at the State House after meeting with President Tinubu, the former NIA boss cited personal and ...

August 13, 2024 No Responses

NIMC Reaffirms Commitment To Protection Of NIN Database

The Director General/Chief Executive Officer of NIMC, Engr Abisoye Coker-Odusote, has reiterated the safety and protection of data in its National Identity Database (NIDB) as the country commemorates the National Civil Registration and Vital Statistics (CRVS) ...