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The Journal seeks to become the most reliable, first-choice Pan-Nigerian information and public knowledge platform. The Journal Nigeria is a serious Journalism from an African Worldview
The Nigeria Customs Service intercepted two forty-foot containers carrying illicit drugs worth ₦3.67bn at the Tin Can Island Port in Lagos on Friday, 9 October. Port command spokesman Oscar Ivara confirmed that officers seized over 1.2 tonnes of narcotics during joint physical examinations with the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency. Smugglers now disguise synthetic narcotics…
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has asked a Federal High Court in Abuja to throw out an attempt by former Petroleum Minister Diezani Alison-Madueke to rely on her London acquittal in her fight to recover forfeited assets. In a further counter-affidavit before Justice Inyang Ekwo, the commission argued that the acquittal by the Southwark…
Nigeria Customs Service officers at Mallam Aminu Kano International Airport arrested a male traveller named Adam Musa Adam after discovering 265,000 dollars in undeclared physical greenbacks hidden inside his luggage . The passenger landed in Kano aboard an Ethiopian Airlines flight from New Delhi before border inspectors uncovered the hidden foreign currency during routine arrival…
Four members of a kidnapping syndicate have been sentenced to death by the Edo State Special Criminal Court in Benin City, in the first judgment delivered by the court since it was set up earlier this year. Justice Aigbona Terry Momodu passed the sentences on Tuesday, 29 September 2026, after finding the four guilty…
Justice Musa Kakaki of the Federal High Court in Lagos sent online influencer Afolabi Kazeem Michael, popular as KC Luxury, to prison custody on Friday over an alleged international cocaine smuggling conspiracy. The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency brought Kazeem into court alongside Boniface Freeman Ochoche Sule and Ikechukwu Ekugo Patriarch on a 22-count indictment…
Operatives from the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps raided an illicit beverage plant in the Aradagun district of Badagry, Lagos State, on September 19, arresting two women aged 48 and 50. The paramilitary unit stormed the residential bungalow at Talabi Onilegbale Street around nine o’clock in the evening following five days of undercover surveillance….
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency took over 1.3 million opioid pills and six tonnes of cannabis off Nigerian streets this week in a nationwide sweep spanning eight states and the Federal Capital Territory. The haul carries an estimated street value exceeding ₦3.4bn. Operatives rounded up a network of couriers, including a trafficker posing as…
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission says it has opened an investigation into a man arrested in Kano with counterfeit United States banknotes valued at 212,200 dollars, in a case that has revived attention on the flow of fake foreign currency through northern Nigeria. According to a statement issued by the commission through its Kano…
A witness for the Department of State Services has told the Federal High Court in Abuja how students and teachers abducted from schools in Oriire Local Government Area of Oyo State were held for 56 days in conditions she described as dehumanising. The witness, identified only as “AAA” to protect her identity, testified on Thursday,…
A 39-year-old Nigerian-born businessman is in custody in Ireland after being stopped at Dublin Airport on a British arrest warrant, in a case that centres on one of the largest single invoice redirection frauds so far disclosed against an Australian mining company. Edwin Omokhuale was detained by officers of An Garda Síochána on Wednesday afternoon,…