NDLEA Foils Attempt to Smuggle Drugs, Arrests Suspect

Operatives of National Drug Law Enforcement Agency [NDLEA] have foiled an attempt to smuggle cannabis on one of the buses of Edo City Transport Service.

A 40-year-old graduate of Political Science and suspected member of a notorious cannabis smuggling cartel was also apprehended by the Agency.

The agency said the suspect was found with forty-eight blocks of compressed dried weed of cannabis sativa weighing 37 kilogrammes packed in two bags in the passenger bus.

The drug has an estimated street value of three hundred and seventy thousand naira [₦370,000].

Court Grant IGP Idris judicial leave to Review Senate’s Order

The Federal High Court Abuja, has granted the Inspector-General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, judicial leave for a review of the order to quash the Senate’s resolution declaring him unfit to hold public office.

The judicial review is a type of court proceeding in which a judge reviews the lawfulness or otherwise of a decision or action made by a public body. 

Justice John Tsoho, on Thursday granted the IGP’s prayers as contained in a motion ex parte argued by his counsel, Mr Alex Izinyon, (SAN).

The IGP prayed the court’s order granting him leave to apply for judicial review of a declaration that the Senate President, Bukola Saraki and the senate, who are the respondents in the suit, acted beyond their powers. 

Offa Robbery: Police Invite Senate President Saraki

The Police High Command has invited Senate President Bukola Saraki for questioning over allegations made by suspects surrounding his link to the deadly robbery of a handful of banks in Offa in April.

Police paraded five principal suspects alongside 15 others in Abuja in connection to the Offa robbery.

The suspects in their statements indicted the senate president this according to the Police spokesperson Jimoh Moshood.