Author: PeakNews

In what appears to be the largest singular cocaine seizure in the records of Nigeria’s premier anti-narcotic agency, operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, have busted a prime warehouse in a secluded estate in Ikorodu location of Lagos where 1.8tons (1,855 kilograms) of the illicit drug worth more than Two Hundred and Seventy Eight Million Two Hundred and Fifty Thousand Dollars ($278, 250,000) equal of approximately One Hundred and Ninety Four Billion, Seven Hundred and Seventy Five Million (N194, 775,000,000) Naira in street value were seized.

At least, four drug barons which includes a Jamaican and the warehouse supervisor were arrested withinside the well coordinated and intelligence led operation that lasted two days across different locations in Lagos state. Kingpins of the cocaine cartel in custody include: Messrs Soji Jibril, 69, an indigene of Ibadan, Oyo state; Emmanuel Chukwu, 65, who hails from Ekwulobia, Anambra state; Wasiu Akinade, 53, from Ibadan, Oyo state; Sunday Oguntelure, 53, from Okitipupa, Ondo state and Kelvin Smith, 42, a native of Kingston, Jamaica. They are all members of an international drug syndicate that the Agency has been trailing since 2018.

Located at 6 Olukuola crescent, Solebo estate, Ikorodu, the warehouse was raided on Sunday 18th September, 2022, while the barons were picked from hotels and their hideouts in different parts of Lagos between Sunday night and Monday 19th September.

Preliminary investigation reveals the class A drugs were warehoused in the residential estate from where the cartel was trying to sell them to buyers in Europe, Asia and other parts of the world. They were stored in 10 travel bags and 13 drums.

While commending all the officers and men of the Agency involved in the extensive investigation including those of the American Drug Enforcement Administration, (US-DEA), Chairman/Chief Executive of NDLEA, Brig. Gen. Mohamed Buba Marwa (Retd) said the bust is a historical blow to the drug cartels and a strong warning that they’ll all go down if they fail to realise that the game has changed.

The authorities of the Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC) have said that whereas the Corporation barely earns up to N1.7m per day, it uses about 24,000 litres of diesel daily for the Lagos-Ibadan route, amounting to about N4 million.

NRC said that it spends 135.3 percent higher than what it earns from the sale of tickets to passengers daily on fuelling the trains that operate on the Lagos-Ibadan Train Service.

The MD was quoted as saying, “The Abuja-Kaduna train bombing on March 28 has critically affected us. The Abuja-Kaduna service was doing marvelously well. At a time, we were hitting N450m monthly and by the time you remove all operational costs you’ll still have something to pay to the government.

“But now, we can hardly buy diesel to operate. In fact, the major headache now is the price of diesel. For instance, on average, we use about 24,000 litres daily for the Lagos-Ibadan service and we barely earn up to N1.7m per day.

“Now the supply value for a litre of diesel is near N1,000. At the filling stations, you get it for approximately N700 to N800, but if you have a supplier, he will have to put his profit margin, VAT and others, and this brings the cost to about N1,000 per litre. So, we are talking about spending almost N4m on diesel alone, when we barely make N1.7m. But we still have to provide the services on that route.”

A Chinese national simply recognized as Mr Geng has killed his Nigerian girlfriend Ummukulsum Buhari at Janbulo vicinity of Kano town on Friday night.

Family sources informed that Mr Geng came to the residence and knocked at their door frantically around 8pm, and later pressured himself into the residence around 9pm.

Narrating how the incident happened, the mother of the deceased stated he pushed her away and entered into her daughter’s room and stabbed her to de ath.

“When we got tired of his knocking, I went out to tell him to keep off our residence, however he pushed me away and went directly into her room and killed her,” the mother stated.

“We then started shouting and neighbours got here to our rescue and apprehended him.

“She was without delay taken to clinic in which she was later licensed dead.”

Although police are yet to formally communicate at the matter, security sources confirmed that the expatriate is in custody.

Sources says that Mr Geng has been courting Ms Buhari for years before she dumped him to marry a Nigerian suitor.

Her marriage crashed recently after her husband found her chats with Mr Geng in her phone and suspected they were still courting.

After the divorce, Mr Geng returned again, but Ms Buhari rejected his contemporary overtures.

The Gidan Angalu community in Toto Local Government Area, Nasarawa State was thrown into surprise penultimate Tuesday with the ‘resurrection’ of a local physician at the point of burial two days after he was licensed lifeless.

Fifty-nine-year-antique Godwin Ugeelu Amadu had been showed lifeless through medical doctors at a non-public clinic at approximately 6 am on September 5, 2022, following which he turned into protected up and wheeled into the mortuary as medical doctors and own circle of relatives members awaited the appearance of his Abuja-based eldest son, Mr. Jacob Amadu.

Since the deceased native physician was said to have left an preparation with his children that he must be buried not later than three days in the health facility earlier than burial and he must not be embalmed with Formaline, preparations were said to have been made for his burial two days later.

To the utter surprise of Amadu’s children, family and sympathisers, however, the local physician rose from the casket he was kept in as preparations were being made to take his corpse to the graveyard, inflicting the crowd that had accumulated for his burial to run in specific directions.

The ‘resurrection’ of Amadu two days after his ‘death’ turned him into an in a single day superstar as people came from a long way and near to affirm what had happened.

The Lagos State Government has introduced plans to close down each Ladipo and Oyingbo markets withinside the kingdom indefinitely through subsequent week Thursday because of investors’ indiscriminate waste disposal.

The country authorities stated that the flow have become vital as it is able to now not tolerate any greater violations consisting of reckless waste dumping, non-fee for waste services, and widespread negative waste control scenario in those markets.

This became made acknowledged with the aid of using the Managing Director of the Lagos State Waste Management Agency (LAWMA), Ibrahim Odumboni, who stated that investors in each markets engaged in unwholesome environmental practices.

According to a assertion from Folashade Kadiri, the spokesperson of LAWMA, Odumosu stated that the unwholesome environmental practices with the aid of using those investors persisted withinside the markets no matter repeated warnings from the agency.

The LAWMA boss stated, “Our interest has been attracted to the deplorable country of the surroundings round Ladipo Market, Mushin and Oyingbo Market, on account of reckless waste dumping with the aid of using buyers.

“Despite serving them abatement notices, they’ve persevered the senseless environmental violation. We are left without a different desire than to rouse the essential sanction of shutting down the markets. This is likewise supposed to function a deterrent to different nonchalant markets.

“We have intensified our sanitation efforts via way of means of deploying vehicles to clean black spots throughout the metropolis, mainly commercial enterprise facilities.

“However, those efforts are being tainted via way of means of the sports of mischievous folks who might instead unload their waste indiscriminately at the roads, than pay for waste services.”

He entreated investors in different markets to stick strictly to environmental hygiene or hazard indefinite closure in their markets.

The United Kingdom authorities has launched the names and records of 6,743 people who’ve died with unclaimed estates. Among the names indexed are fifty six Nigerians formally recorded to have died among 1996 and 2021 withinside the United Kingdom.

The unclaimed estates have a 30-yr time restrict from the date of demise earlier than it’s far eliminated if nobody comes for it.

Names at the listing According to facts from UK Treasury Solicitor and ultimate up to date on September 8, 2022, one of the Nigerians diagnosed is Julius Taiwo, who died on July 19, 1995, at Derby Derbyshire, UK. A acquainted call at the listing, in line with BusinessDay, is a sure Victor Adedapo Olufemi Fani-Kayode, who’s stated to have died on August 15, 2001, in Birmingham, with the informant on his demise indexed because the Birmingham City Council

Operatives of the Lagos Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, have arrested a suspected fraudster, Olabanji Aluko, for an alleged  $17.5m advance fee fraud.

Aluko, who claimed to be a driver, was arrested on Wednesday,  September 8, 2022,  at a popular eatery in Falomo, Ikoyi, Lagos, where he had arranged a meeting with a petitioner, Col. Remi Abdulrahman Adeyemo (retd.).

Adeyemo, in his statement to the EFCC, claimed that he received a phone call from a man,  simply identified as Ojo, who claimed to have known him some years back. Ojo, according to him, claimed that his son had initiated a divorce process in the United States of America,  USA,  and wanted to sell his properties to avoid losing them to his wife in the end.

He further alleged that Ojo requested his assistance regarding receiving the said sum, being proceeds of the sale of his son’s properties in the US,    allegedly assuring  him that the money would be shipped from the US,  through a company, Loomis International, New York, and that a code would be sent to him, which he would present before he could take possession of the said sum.

Adeyemo also claimed to have received another call,  where he was told that he would have to pay the sum of $5,700, being the cost of local handling charges, in order to receive the money. Suspecting that Ojo was up to some foul play,  he  reported the case to the EFCC.

The EFCC,  working on the  intelligence, swung into action, which resulted in the arrest of the suspect while he was about to hand over the fake bills to the tune of $17.5m to the petitioner. 

The suspect will soon be charged to court.

American Television Host, Nicholas Scott Cannon, popularly known as Nick Cannon, has welcomed his ninth child, a baby girl named Onyx Ice Cole Cannon with Ex-model, LaNisha Cole.

Cannon shared a video of the mother and their daughter via his Instagram page with the caption, “Introducing ONYX ICE COLE CANNON. Once again, today I am in awe of the Devine Feminine! God has given me and @MissLanishaCole the privilege of hosting an angel here on earth.

“I vow to protect, provide, guide, and love this child to the best of my abilities. In this moment of celebration and jubilee, I wish to mute any low vibrational frequencies and only rejoice with the Highest class of civilization who are truly aligned with our purpose here in this dimension.

“We all learn so much from these Angels we call children. I am learning that it is not the limited amount of time we have on this planet, but it’s the limited amount of love that is the issue. And I promise to love this little girl with all my heart, regardless of what anyone says.”

Nick Cannon is also expecting his 10th child with his ex-lover, Brittany Bell.