The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has said that it has arrested not less than 2000 suspects in the last three months. The Chairman of the agency, Brigadier-General Buba Marwa, added that over 300 convictions have been secured and his agency has seized illicit drugs worth N75 billion within the period under review. He said this on Thursday when he paid a courtesy visit to the Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, at...

A renowned Islamic scholar, Sheikh Muhammad Nuru Khalid, on Thursday, alleged that some influential people, including religious leaders and politicians, were the real sponsors of insecurity in some parts of the country. Khalid stated this in Abuja during the public presentation of a book titled, “The Infinite Light, The Pride of Humanity” authored by Sheikh Fathullah Gulen a spiritual leader of Hizmet. Khalid claimed that the bandits who were predominantly youths of northern extraction had...