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The Director-General of the Department of State Services (DSS), Oluwatosin Ajayi, has called for stricter enforcement of Nigeria’s laws, including stiffer punishment for terrorists, saying intelligence alone cannot eliminate terrorism and other forms of violent crime.According to him, the Service is now focused on securing convictions rather than merely arraigning suspects.Ajayi, who spoke during a chat with senior editors to mark his second anniversary in office, also called for an end to the ethnicisation and politicisation of criminality, insisting that criminals should be treated according to the law, irrespective of their ethnic or religious backgrounds.Ajayi was appointed DSS director-general by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu in August 2024.He said the DSS had recorded s...

A former Treasurer of the All Progressives Congress, APC, and Secretary-General of Uwheru Kingdom, Chief Edewor Akpedafe, has been hospitalised after he was allegedly attacked by suspected political thugs in Ughelli, Delta State.Akpedafe is currently receiving treatment at the Central Hospital, Ughelli, after he was allegedly brutally beaten during a meeting in the area.He was reportedly left with serious injuries following the incident.The attack reportedly occurred at the Ughelli residence of Olorogun Miller Uloho, Chairman of the Ughelli North LGA Advisory Committee, where a meeting was being held to resolve a lingering land dispute over the ownership of an oil facility between Evwreni Kingdom (Unenurhie) and Uwheru Kingdom.A source who reportedly witnessed the incid...

A Celestial Church of Christ evangelist, Abidemi Odukoya, and his wife, Adenike, have reportedly died in separate circumstances following an alleged domestic altercation at their residence in the Akinode/Ibogun community, Ogun State.PUNCH Metro learnt that the incident occurred in the early hours of Monday, August 25, after the couple allegedly engaged in a domestic dispute that escalated into a physical confrontation.The altercation reportedly left Adenike unconscious and injured, while her husband allegedly fled the residence.A former Chairman of the Community Development Association, Adejimi Olawumi, said in a video shared by Arole TV on Wednesday that he was alerted by residents’ cries for help and subsequently found the woman lying in a pool of blood.Olawumi s...

The Independent National Electoral Commission has warned that artificial intelligence-driven disinformation poses a serious threat to the credibility of the 2027 general elections, calling for electoral technology and communication to be treated as a single discipline.The INEC Chairman, Prof Joash Amupitan (SAN), also disclosed that the commission was conducting a comprehensive audit of its electoral technology systems and considering a mock presidential election to test its readiness ahead of the polls.This was contained in a statement signed by INEC’s Director of Voter Education and Publicity, Victoria Eta-Messi.Amupitan spoke on Wednesday in Abuja in a keynote address delivered on his behalf by a National Commissioner, Sani Adam (SAN), at the 13th Annual International Confer...

A House of Representatives ad hoc committee investigating the purported Presidential Foreign Intervention Promotion Council (PFIPC) has uncovered 58 bank accounts and 12 corporate entities linked to the organization's disputed Director-General, Adeniyi Adeyemi.The preliminary findings were released in a report signed by the committee chairman, Yusuf Gagdi, following a legislative inquiry into the council's inclusion in the 2026 Appropriation Bill despite significant doubts surrounding its legal creation.According to the committee's report, initial financial tracking revealed that more than 30 of the identified accounts were operated under the names of nine separate companies, foundations, and related entities, with additional accounts held under individual and variant names.The...

Weeks after First lady, Oluremi Tinubu, advised poor Nigerians to venture into low-capital businesses like selling Akara and KuliKuli, Akwa Ibom state governor, Pastor Eno Uno, has revealed that many years ago, he sold Akara and made a fortune from it NigerianCulture MagazineWhile speaking at the state’s monthly covenant prayer service today September 2, the governor said“We still have that shop there. I started selling Akara and bread. Back then, I was doing Akara Burger, we open the bread and put it inside for you. People going to Exxon Mobil will buy it in the monrning, take coffee..we started coffee shop.Every month, that akara business used to give me nothing less than N10 million in a month.”https://youtu.be/s-6TrrAjZ24?si=Z6elwKZ_TCuBksHg...