Bu Joyce Eyaba, JKNewsMedia Reporter DIVERSE EFFORS to withdraw police officers from supposed Very Important Persons (VIP) protection in Nigeria have spanned more than two decades, with successive inspector-generals of police (IGPs) issuing directives that were often partially enforced or reversed. Records show repeated attempts to return off...
She set out to collect the certificate that would seal her academic journey. Instead, Temitope Akinwale, then 25, now 33, found herself fighting for survival in a swampy forest, blindfolded, terrified, and praying through four days of captivity, as she recounts her traumatising ordeal to JKNewsMedia Reporter, HELEN OKECHUKWU. FAINT TRACES of ...
By Jemimah Wellington, JKNewsMedia Correspondent PRESSURE ON Nigeria’s overstretched policing system prompted a decisive change on Sunday after Nigeria’s President Bola Tinubu ordered the withdrawal of police officers assigned to supposed Very Important Personalities (VIPs) escort and guard operations across the country. The new directi...
By Jemimah Wellington, JKNewsMedia Correspondent NIGERIA’s DOMESTIC intelligence agency, the Department of State Services (DSS), has dismissed 115 personnel as part of a sweeping internal reform aimed at reinforcing discipline, integrity, and professionalism across its ranks. According to an official statement by the Service, the dismissals w...
By Jemimah Wellington, JKNewsMedia Correspondent RELATIVES OF seven abducted travellers are clinging to hope after the victims, including 24-year-old Michael Bedford and his father, were kidnapped in Uli, Anambra State, while returning to Lagos from a burial in Abia State. The incident occurred on Sunday, 5 October 2025, when the group was se...
By Ajibola Olaide, JKNewsMedia Reporter THE VIOLENT death of Arise Television anchor and producer, Somtochukwu Christelle Maduagwu has drawn nationwide grief and a federal government’s directive for investigation after she was killed during an armed robbery at her residence in Katampe, Abuja. The Federal Government, through the Minister...
By Favour Olisah, JKNewsMedia Reporter TWO NIGERIANS who returned from Brazil have excreted 116 wraps of heroin and cocaine while in observatory custody after their arrest by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, MMIA, Ikeja Lagos. One of the suspects, 46-year-old Ofoma S...
By Jemimah Wellington, JKNewsMedia Correspondent A MAJOR international drug trafficking syndicate has been dismantled following a two-week intelligence-led operation by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) in Lagos, leading to the arrest of three cartel leaders and the seizure of a cocaine consignment valued at N5.3 ...
By Jemimah Wellington, JKNewsMedia Correspondent A SEVENTY-five-old man, Uchelue Ikechukwu, was among six suspects arrested with illicit drugs in Anambra State as the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) intensified nationwide operations that also led to the destruction of 178,750 kilograms of cannabis on a 71.5-hectare farm in Taraba...
By Jemimah Wellington, JKNewsMedia Correspondent NIGERIA’s KIDNAPPING crisis has entrenched itself as a booming criminal enterprise, with over N48 billion demanded in ransom between July 2024 and June 2025, according to a new report by B Morgen (SBM) Intelligence. The Africa-focused geopolitical research and consulting firm said in its study,...
