NDLEA apprehends 366 traffickers, seizes 1,560kg drugs in Enugu

The Kano State Hisbah Board has arrested a man and his girlfriend for conducting their marriage ceremony at a restaurant in Kano without parental consent. Deputy Commander General of Operations, Dr Mujahideen Abubakar, confirmed the arrest on Thursday, stating that Hisbah personnel raided Banana Restaurant on Zoo Road, Kano, on Wednesday night following a tip-off.…

The East African Community (EAC) Heads of State and the Southern African Development Community (SADC) are seeking a lasting solution to the crisis in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). To this end, the EAC rulers met on Wednesday to discuss the situation, according to a statement released by the President of Uganda, Yoweri Museveni,…

A US commercial airliner with 64 people aboard and a military helicopter collided over Washington on Wednesday before crashing into the Potomac River, triggering a massive rescue operation that has pulled multiple bodies from the near-freezing water.

Russian figure skaters including world champion couple Evgenia Shishkova and Vadim Naumov, who won the 1994 pairs title, were on board a US passenger jet that crashed in Washington on Wednesday, Russian news agencies reported.

No fewer than 20 American mercenaries fighting on the side of Ukraine, have been reported missing in combat, with casualties among foreign fighters rising sharply over the past six months. CNN reported this on Thursday after conducting its own investigation. It said that foreigners have been dying on the Ukrainian front lines in growing numbers…

The Nigerian Airspace Management Agency (NAMA) has clarified why United Airlines flight UAL 613 chose to return to Lagos rather than land at closer airports in West Africa after experiencing a mid-air emergency. The flight, which departed Lagos for Washington Dulles on 24 January with 256 passengers and 11 crew members, encountered a sudden loss…

A record 92.3 million passengers travelled through Dubai's international airport last year, its operator said on Thursday, underlining the Gulf city's economic boom.

Former executive secretary of the National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA), Usman Yusuf, will be arraigned by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) today. Yusuf was by operatives of the EFCC at around 4:30 pm on Wednesday on charges of alleged N4 billion fraud, among other allegations. Since becoming the head of the NHIA in…

The lingering crisis rocking the pan-Yoruba socio-political organisation, Afenifere, has continued to fester with no end in sight. With the crisis taking a new twist on Wednesday, the Pa Reuben Fasoranti-led Afenifere frowned at the appointment of Dele Farotimi by the Chief Ayo Adebanjo faction as organising secretary. At a meeting on Tuesday, chaired by…

The number of cows slaughtered daily in Lagos State has dropped by 40 per cent— from 5,000 to 3,000— a development the Lagos State Butchers Association has said is worrisome. The association’s Patron, Alhaji Bamidele Kazeem, disclosed this in an interview on Thursday in Lagos, saying that the number of cows slaughtered daily in Lagos…