The chairman of the national drug law enforcement agency (NDLEA), Mohammed Buba Marwa has said illicit drugs are now demanded as ransom by criminals. Marwa noted that the use of illicit drugs is at a high rate and should be fought collectively. He disclosed this on Thursday while speaking at the inauguration of a special-purpose committee of the agency. In a statement by Femi Babafemi, NDLEA director of media and publicity, Marwa noted that the...

President Mohammed Buhari has dismissed the concept of amnesty to bandits and other criminal elements in the country. Noting that the government has resolved to deal decisively with criminals who terrorise or try to distort the peace in the country, Buhari stated the criminality will be handle without ethnic profiling. Represented by his chief of staff, Ibrahim Gambari, the president while speaking at a joint security meeting of Northern State Governors’ Forum and traditional rulers...

Unknown gunmen, who kidnapped Emmanuel Odetunde, a student of Sociology at the University of Ibadan, Oyo State, have demanded ₦100m as ransom from his family before he could be freed. The gunmen broke into the student father’s farm in Oke Odan, Apete area of Ibadan, the Oyo State capital on Monday and abducted him. Odetunde was reportedly kidnapped around 5 pm. Close family sources revealed that four suspected herders had demanded his father. However, they...

ENUGU — Mr. Samuel Ani, another Community leader in the crisis-ridden Oruku Community in Nkanu Local Government of Enugu State, was on Wednesday, shot dead in the area by unidentified gunmen. The Police Command in the state confirmed the incident in a statement signed by its spokesperson, Mr. Daniel Ndukwe in Enugu on Wednesday. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that until his death, Ani was the Vice-Chairman, Oruku Caretaker Committee. The incident occurred...