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NDLEA, Nigerian Senate Synergise On Fighting Illicit Drugs Trafficking As Committee Chairman, Ikpea Visits Agency

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NDLEA, Nigerian Senate Synergise On Fighting Illicit Drugs Trafficking As Committee Chairman, Ikpea Visits Agency By Editor  The Chairman of the Senate Committee on Drugs and Narcotics Senator Joseph Ikpea has assured the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, (NDLEA) would continue to provide the necessary legislative backing to strengthen the agency’s capacity, improve operational effectiveness, and enhance its ability to discharge its mandate efficiently. Senator Ikpea made the commitment on Monday June 15, 2026, when he paid a familiarisation visit to the Abuja headquarters of the NDLEA where he was received by its Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Brigadier-General Mohamed Buba Marwa (Rtd), alongside his management team. Briefing General Marwa on the purpose of his visit, the senator paid glowing tribute to General Marwa’s leadership, acknowledging the remarkable transformation that had taken place within the agency in recent years. He also praised the NDLEA’s r...
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CRPP Berates Okpebholo For Kidnapping In Edo ...Laments Abduction Of Woman In Vegetable Market

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CRPP Berates Okpebholo For  Kidnapping In Edo  ...Laments  Abduction Of Woman In Vegetable Market  Iduozee Efe Paul, Benin  Coalition of Registered Political Parties (CRPP), has castigated the Edo state governor, Senator Monday Okpebholo for the incessant kidnapping in the state. The coalition also lamented about the recent abduction of a woman in vegetable market on June 14, 2026,  after kidnappers failed to abduct the man. This followed a statement issued and titled:"Edo now under siege of kidnappers and criminals, we're tired of lamentation," by  Dr. Samson Isibor, the National  Chairman, and Hon. Nkama Waribe, National Secretary, of CRPP, said despite the 1 billion naira that governor Okpebholo is  receiving every month as security vote that crimes and criminality are escalating everyday in Edo state. According to Dr. Isibor, said because of the continuous crimes and insecurity that have overwhelmed the three senatorial distri...
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POS Operator, Bashir Jailed 20 Years For ₦20k Commission on Transfer To Boko Haram Member

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POS Operator, Bashir Jailed 20 Years For ₦20k Commission on  Transfer To Boko Haram Member   ...As Convict Admitted  He received ₦5 Million From Boko Haram By Editor  A Maiduguri-based businessman, Umar Bashir, has been sentenced to 20 years imprisonment without option of fine after he was convicted of terrorism financing. Bashir, who claimed to be a major dealer in oil perfumes and also a Point of Sale operator, was found guilty of using his bank account to carry out financial transactions for members of the Boko Haram sect. The Federal Government arraigned him on Monday before Justice Binta Fatimah Nyako on charges linked to terrorism financing. According to the prosecution, Bashir used his United Bank for Africa account number 2213629628 to receive and transfer money on behalf of Boko Haram members. He specifically admitted that he received ₦5 million from a Boko Haram member identified as Ibrahim Modu and later transferred the money into the terrorist...
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OPINION: Northern Nigeria Will Soon Kill Nigeria

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OPINION: Northern Nigeria Will Soon Kill Nigeria   _President Bola Tinubu, in his June 12 broadcast, condemned terrorists and their work but told us not to “assign blame or point fingers” because “crime has no ethnicity.” Crime may indeed have no ethnicity, but that does not relieve us of the duty to identify the environment that breeds and sustains it. A desert does not cease to be a desert because it contains a few oases._   _As I write this, Yoruba schoolchildren and their teachers have spent one full month in captivity, held in the bush by badly brought up boys from northern Nigeria. Exposed to the rain, exposed to the sun, the abducted remain bargaining chips in a conflict they knew nothing of. Their captors reportedly demand the release of northern terrorist commanders in northern detention centres._   _A friend heard the president and said this president is as afraid of the North as all those before him. The fear of the North is regularly...
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Operation Flush Out Cultists: Suspected Ritualist Buildings Demolished, Another Sealed in Edo

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Operation Flush Out Cultists: Suspected Ritualist Buildings Demolished, Another Sealed in Edo By Editor  The Edo State Government has demolished a building allegedly linked to cultism and ritual activities, while sealing another property in Uromi, Esan North-East Local Government Area, in a renewed crackdown on crime and criminal networks in the state. The operation, carried out under “Operation Flush Out Kidnappers and Cultists,” involved the Edo State Security Corp (ESSC), the Nigeria Police Force, and other security agencies under the supervision of senior security officials attached to Governor Monday Okpebholo. Speaking during the exercise, the Secretary of the Edo State Security Squad, Barr. John Izegaegbe, said the intervention followed intelligence and field findings in the area. He stated: “We are here on the marching order of Governor Monday Okpebholo and getting here we discovered that it's a ritual and a murder case.” According to him, one of the...
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Edo SWAN Greets Edo Queens For Emerging Champions Of 2026 NWFL

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SPORTS WRITERS ASSOCIATION OF NIGERIA (SWAN), EDO STATE CHAPTER 15 June 2026 CONGRATULATORY MESSAGE TO EDO  Edo SWAN Greets Edo Queens For Emerging Champions Of 2026 NWFL On behalf of the Executive Council and entire membership of the Sports Writers' Association of Nigeria (SWAN), Edo State Chapter, we extend our warmest congratulations to the Executive Chairman of the Edo State Sports Commission, Hon. SWAN, the management, coaching crew, players, and supporters of Edo Queens Football Club on their remarkable emergence as champions of the 2026 Nigeria Women Football League (NWFL) Premiership. This outstanding achievement represents yet another glorious chapter in the history of the club, coming after its landmark title success in 2024. It is a fitting reward for the team's resilience, discipline, hard work, and unwavering commitment to excellence. Your journey to the championship crown was nothing short of inspirational. After suffering defeat in the opening match o...
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OPINION: Davido, Reno Omokri And Arítúlà's Lost Sparrow

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TUESDAY FLAT OUT OPINION: Davido, Reno Omokri And Arítúlà's Lost Sparrow   By Suyi Ayodele (Published in the Nigerian Tribune on Tuesday, June 16, 2026) https://tribuneonlineng.com/davido-reno-omokri-and-aritulas-lost-sparrow/   On June 10, 2026, at the FIFA World Cup Countdown Concert in Los Angeles, David Adeleke, better known as Davido, stepped onto one of the world's biggest stages wearing a jacket with a simple message: "Bring Them Back."   The message was not about fashion. It was not about music. It was about the schoolchildren and teachers abducted from Oriire area of Oyo State more than a month earlier and still held in captivity by terrorists.   Millions saw the message. Millions who knew nothing about the tragedy in Oriire suddenly became aware that somewhere in Nigeria, children who should have been in classrooms were spending their days and nights in the bush at the mercy of armed criminals, inclement weather and poisonous vipers!.   One...
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