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The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) destroyed counterfeit drugs at the Moniya dump site in Akinyele Local Government Area of Oyo State.   NAFDAC Director General, Prof. Mojisola Adeyeye, said the counterfeit drugs worth a Hundred Billion Naira were confiscated from pharmaceutical drug marketers in Idumota market, Lagos. She noted […]

A former presidential aide Doyin Okupe is dead. He was 72. Family sources confirmed his death to Channels Television on Friday. Okupe died in the early hours of Friday. He hailed from Ogun State.  In his tribute to the late Okupe, the Ogun State Governor Dapo Abiodun described the medical doctor’s death as a “personal […]

The bromance between the German armaments conglomerate giant, Rheinmetall and the Nigerian Army appears to have hit the rocks after Egyptian arms company, Eagles International for Defense Systems, was contracted by the President Bola Tinubu administration to supply over 100 armored vehicles for civilian and military applications, including luxury armored SUVs, luxury armored sedans, luxury […]

Amid the leadership tussle that has assailed the Lagos State House of Assembly in the last seven weeks, a lawmaker, who represents Agege Constituency I, Mudashiru Obasa, has been re-elected as the Speaker of the 40-member Assembly.   Obasa was re-elected on Monday after the resignation of Mojisola Meranda who stepped down as the Speaker […]

A gale of resignations and reshuffling hit the floor of the crisis-torn Lagos State House of Assembly on Monday with the stepping down of the first female Speaker in the state, Mojisola Meranda.   Meranda, who represents Apapa Constituency I, announced her resignation at the plenary after which lawmakers immediately re-elected her as the Deputy […]

Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have arrested a wanted 59-year-old drug baron, Ogbonnaya Kevin Jeff, 17 years after he went underground to ship illicit drugs reportedly worth billions of naira across the world.   The Chairman/Chief Executive Officer of the NDLEA, Brig Gen Mohamed Buba Marwa (retd), disclosed this on Monday […]

The recent allegations of sexual harassment against Senate President Godswill Akpabio by Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan have sparked national outrage, igniting a broader conversation on power abuse, gender discrimination, and political accountability in Nigeria. The controversy has drawn reactions from political figures, civil society groups, legal experts, and women’s rights activists, with many calling for a […]

The Supreme Court has barred the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), the Accountant General of the Federation and other agencies from releasing funds to the government of Rivers State until it purges itself of what the court describes as flagrant disobedience to court orders.   In a one hour, thirty-six-minute judgement delivered by Justice Emmanuel […]

  President Bola Ahmed Tinubu on Wednesday expressed his determination to work harder for the country’s greater good, assuring that the Nigerian economy was on the path of recovery.   The President spoke in Abuja at the All-Progressives Congress (APC) National Executive Committee meeting, during which he received a vote of confidence for his administration’s […]

Nigeria took a step closer on Monday to conducting a new national population and housing census with biometric and digital components. The nation last held a census in November 2006.   President Bola Tinubu, at a meeting at the Statehouse with officials of the National Population Commission (NPC), said he would set up a committee […]

The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has sealed over 11,000 shops and arrested 40 individuals in its ongoing nationwide clampdown on fake and substandard medicines.   Briefing journalists on Saturday in Lagos, NAFDAC Director-General, Professor Mojisola Adeyeye, stated that the enforcement had been planned for over a year as a […]

The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has justified its recent crackdown on fake drugs across the country and dismissed claims that the organisation was against businesses.    NAFDAC’s recent crackdown on fake drugs saw it raiding markets and shops where these substances were discovered.  That has triggered condemnation from some […]