The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has expressed concern over the increasing prevalence of new psychoactive substances (NPS) disguised under alarming street names. The agency’s Director of Media and Advocacy, Femi Babafemi, disclosed this while announcing recent drug seizures in Lagos and Kano States, which revealed the abuse of harmful substances among Nigerian youths. Babafemi identified the substances as including NPS and others bearing troubling names such as “Suck & Die,” “Rubber Solution,” “Dead...

Two hundred and fifty-three (253) victims of human trafficking and other related offences were rescued in 2024 by the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons, NAPTIP, Maiduguri Zonal Command. Mohammed Barde, the Zonal Commander, made this known on Thursday in Maiduguri, Borno state capital, said out of the 253 victims, 163 were minors aged between 0-17 years, comprising 105 females and 58 males, while the remaining 90 were adult men and women....

The Lagos State Police Command has raised alarm over a new form of abduction, which it termed ‘constructive kidnapping,’ where unsuspecting women are lured to Lagos under false pretenses by kidnappers posing as romantic partners or online friends. Speaking at a press briefing, the Lagos State Commissioner of Police, CP Olawale Ishola, revealed that at least 16 women had fallen victim to the scheme but were successfully rescued by the police. Explaining the modus operandi,...

Founder of Mallam Kawu Rehabilitation and Skill Acquisition Center in Yakubu Wanka, Bauchi Local Government Area, Mallam Kawu has been arrested  on allegations of abuse, sodomy, and exploitation of inmates. Operatives of the Bauchi Police Command, who raided the facility in collaboration with the Hisbah Command of the State Shariah Commission, also evacuated ten children from the facility during the operation. The operation followed complaint by a former inmate, Yahaya Yusuf who reportedly lodged against...

Three members of the Lakurawa terrorist group operating in the Kebbi state axis have been arrested while attempting to offer an N1.6m bribe to the Police lead investigator. This is contained in a statement on Tuesday by the Kebbi State Police command’s spokesman, SP Nafiu Abubakar. The statement said: “The three suspected members of the group Umaru Garba, Alhaji Abubakar Mamman, and Usman Muhammadu had conspired to offer detectives the sum of N1.6m to compromise...

Five Katsina Internal Revenue Officials officials have been arrested by operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission attached to the Kano State Command for their alleged involvement in N1.3 billion fraud. Rabiu Abdullahi, Sanusi Mohammed Yaro, Ibrahim M. Kofar Soro, Ibrahim Aliyu, and Nura Lawal Kofar Sauri were among those arrested. Dele Oyewale, spokesman of the anti-graft agency who confirmed their arrest in Abuja on Monday, gave the amount of money allegedly diverted by...

At least 40 farmers were brutally murdered by suspected Boko Haram terrorists in an attack on Sunday afternoon in Kukawa Local Government Area of Borno State. The attack, which unfolded around 4:30 p.m. in Kayakura village, Doron Baga ward, also left scores of farmers unaccounted for, according to local sources. This incident comes on the heels of a similar attack in Chibok community on Saturday, where two people were killed and a church was set...