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By Esther Onyegbula National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) Over 100,000 tons of hard drugs and psychotropic substances seized by National Drug Law Enforcement Agency in Lagos State was publicly destroyed at Ibereko, Badagry area of Lagos, yesterday. Performing the destruction of forfeited drug exhibits, the anti-narcotic agency’s Chairman/Chief Executive, Col Mustapha Abdallah (retd) expressed…
By Theodore Opara Set to rejuvenate product portfolio 2019 was the ninth consecutive record year for Mercedes-Benz, with growth of 1.3% to a total of 2,339,562units delivered worldwide. At the same time, Mercedes-Benz maintained its leading position among the luxury car brands for the fourth year in a row. In all three of its main…
By Theodore Opara •L-R: Head of Sales, CFAO Equipment, Idris Siyaka; MC/Comedian, UtiOghenevwogaga; Managing Director, CFAO Motors/Country Delegate, CFAOGroup Nigeria, Thomas Pelletier; Sales Manager, CFAO Equipment, StanleyAiluelohia; and General Manager, CFAO Equipment, Laurent Friederich, at there-launch of the KING LONG passenger bus and cargo van in Lagos CFAO Equipment, a subsidiary of the CFAO Group…
By Abdulmumin Murtala – Kano Kano Road and Traffic Agency,, has confiscated 28 cartons of illicit drugs worth N30 million. Karota, under the leadership of Baffa Babba Dan’agundi, raided a store along Airport Road by Murtala Muhammad Way where the drugs were kept after being brought into the state without National Agency for Food, Drugs…
By Theodore Opara Drive-in your old car, get new Suzuki from CFAO *Suzuki Baleno IN a bid to ease new car ownership for Nigerians, CFAO Motors, the sole distributor of Suzuki cars in Nigeria, has unveiled its vehicle trade-in scheme. Interestingly, the trade is non-restrictive to car brands or models, even if it was bought…
IT is of grave danger to pretend not to see it, keep quiet over it or try to be nice about it and water it down. Many evidences point to it – Christians are hunted down in Northern Nigeria. The biggest symbols of this sad truth are the remaining over 100 Chibok schoolgirls, Dapchi schoolgirl,…
By James Ogunnaike – Abeokuta Hundreds of farmers from over 12 villages in the Oja Odan community in Yewa North Local Government Area of Ogun State, on Wednesday, protested the incessant attacks and destruction of their farms by herdsmen and their cattle. The farmers who took their protest to the Palace of the Eselu of…
Enugu State government has approved payment of N30,000 minimum wage for civil servants with effect from next month. Following the submission of the report of the joint committee of labour and the state government set up by Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi for the negotiation of the consequential adjustment of the N30,000 minimum wage, Enugu State Executive…
Deputy President of the Senate, Ovie Omo-Agege A Federal Capital Territory (FCT) High Court sitting in Bwari has dismissed a suit seeking the removal of Senator Ovie Omo-Agege as deputy senate president. The suit by Incorporated Trustees of Patriotic Youth Organisation of Nigeria, had asked the court to void Omo-Agege’s election on the grounds that he…
Peoples Democratic Party …PDP exco begging to join APC —Uzodinma’s aide Dirisu Yakubu, Chinonso Alozie, Praise Njoku & Jennifer Gideon The leadership of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has called on Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to immediately declare the seats of its member-lawmakers of the Imo State House of Assembly, who defected to All Progressives…