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The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Apapa Area Command, has seized twenty-six billion, five hundred and sixty-five nine million, eight hundred and forty-seven thousand, seven hundred and seventy-one Naira (₦26,569,847,771) only worth of Cannabis Indica weighing 4,143.5 kilogramnes during a routine examination together with the personnel of the National Drugs Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) at the Command’s Enforcement Unit. This was contained in a statement signed by Customs Public Relations Officer Apapa Area Command, Chief Superintendent of Custom Isah Sulaiman, dated July 14, 2026. It said that relying on credible intelligence together with the NDLEA, the Customs Area Controller (CAC), Comptroller Emmanuel Oshoba had  directed that the 1×40ft container number FANU1933352, be subjected to thorough examination which resulted in the discovery on Friday, 10 July 2026. The container was found to contain Three (3)  used vehicles- Red Nissan Micra (2015 model) Black Toyo...

‎ ‎By Mukhtar S. Galadima ‎ ‎Politics rewards ambition, but it punishes strategic impatience. Throughout history, politicians who successfully climbed to the highest offices did so not merely because they were ambitious, but because they understood timing, party loyalty, coalition-building, and the value of political compromise. ‎ ‎Abdulrahman Bashir Haske represents one of the emerging political figures in Adamawa State. His governorship aspiration significantly raised his public profile and introduced him to the wider political consciousness of the state. For someone relatively new to frontline partisan politics, that alone was a remarkable achievement. ‎ ‎Ordinarily, such political exposure should serve as the foundation for a long-term career. A politician who has successfully introduced himself to the electorate has already won an important battle. The logical next step is usually to consolidate support, strengthen alliances, exhibit humility and patiently build politi...

  A socio-cultural organisation, the Association of Ebonyi Indigenes Socio-Cultural in the Diaspora (AEISCID), has cautioned against what it described as attempts to politicise the annual Okeaku (New Yam) Festival of the Ezza Ezekuna people, urging individuals and groups to respect established cultural traditions. In a statement signed on Saturday by its President, Ambassador Paschal Oluchukwu, the group expressed concerns over it called a departure from the customary process of fixing and celebrating the festival, which it said traditionally marks the beginning of a new calendar year for the Ezza nation. AEISCID alleged that a gathering organised on June 30, 2026, at the ancestral Okpoku Ezekuna (Nchionu) ground by a group identified as “Ezza Elites” was held without the guidance or approval of recognised traditional custodians of Ezza cultural heritage. According to the association, while every group has the constitutional right to peaceful assembly and freedom of ass...

*Urges US, EU, other international community to uncover truth in the appointment, bribery scandal  Former Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Comrade Timi Frank has called for a thorough forensic probe of how the principal intermediary in the appointment and bribery scandal Dolapo Babatunde Tanimola died mysteriously.  Frank said for accountability sake, the parents, family members, relatives and the nation at large, the public deserve to know what led to Tanimola's death at a time when his presence would have helped to uncover the truths in the current scandal rocking President Bola Ahmed Tinubu's government.  The presidency had in a statement by Bayo Onanuga dismissed allegations against the Chief of Staff to the president, Femi Gbajabiamila, over the scandalous activities of the Presidential Foreign Intervention Promotion Council (PFIPC) and its Director General, Adeniyi Adeyemi.  In the said statement, the presi...

*Accuses presidency, INEC, judiciary of conspiracy to keep Atiku off  ballot  Former Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Comrade Timi Frank, on Monday, alleged a fresh plot by the Presidency, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and elements within the judiciary to remove the African Democratic Congress (ADC) from the ballot ahead of the 2027 general election. Frank warned that any attempt to exclude the ADC and its presidential candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, from the election would amount to an assault on democracy capable of plunging the country into chaos and anarchy. In a strongly worded statement, Frank claimed that credible information available to him indicated that the ADC had become the principal target of a coordinated plan aimed at crippling the opposition and entrenching a one-party state. According to him, the Nigeria Democratic Congress (NDC) is merely being used as a decoy while the real obje...

*Demands President's disqualification  Ahead of the 2027 presidential election, a civil society group, the Center for Reform and Public Advocacy (CFRPA)  has reopened the issue on the genuiness or otherwise of the Chicago State University certificate used by President Bola Tinubu to get clearance for the 2023 general election.  The group, championing good governance in Nigeria, has formally written the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Professor Joash Amupitan, demanding clarifications on the status of the degree certificate claimed to have been obtained and being paraded by  President Tinubu.  In a letter to the Professor of Law and Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), the group demanded expedited clarifications from the electoral body to ensure that sanity prevails in the body polity of the country, especially in the 2027 election.  Specifically, the group predicated its demand on the certificate status on the need ...