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File Photo: Herdsmen. The National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) has warned television and radio stations against broadcasting contents related to the quit notice given to herders in the South-West region. The warning, stated in a letter titled ‘Broadcast of Crisis Involving Herdsmen, Caution’, was issued on Tuesday to broadcasters nationwide. File Photo: Herdsmen. The warning came weeks after a quit notice was issued to Fulani herdsmen by Yoruba rights activist, Sunday Adeyemo, aka Sunday Igboho, in Oyo State. Also, the Governor of Ondo State, Rotimi Akeredolu asked herdsmen in the state to vacate all forest reserves within a week. The NBC, which is the regulator of the broadcast media, said there was a need for stations to maintain professionalism. The letter read in part, “The National Broadcasting Commission wishes to bring to your attention emerging trends of national concern like the herdsmen crisis in Ondo and Oyo states and related issues which could spiral out of ...

Indian police When a 30-year-old hotel manager from Chembur, who had been looking to move abroad, saw an email from the “Hilton hotel in Canada” on January 15 offering him a job, he was elated. He had been looking for a job in a foreign hotel through various portals. He was immediately sent an appointment letter and asked to contact “diplomat Mark Brown”. Indian police In turn, Brown asked him to pay visa fee, programme fee, employment authorisation and basic travelling allowance fee and got him to deposit Rs 17.22 lakh in various bank accounts.  After realising that he had been duped since he did not hear back from the hotel, the man filed a complaint with the police, Indian Express reports. Eventually, it turned out that four alleged fraudsters from Pune, arrested by the cyber police on Monday, hatched the “Canada-based Hilton hotel” email and “diplomat Mark Brown” plan to dupe the complainant. Joint Commissioner of Police (Crime) Milind Bharambe said, “Of the four a...

Ghana Police The Accra Regional Police Command has gunned down a suspected highway robber and arrested two others in operation on Spintex Road, in Accra, Ghana. Blessing Stephen, about 38 years old, died from gunshot wounds he sustained in the capture operation at a guest house at Spintex, a suburb of Accra, on January 27, 2021, at about 1130 hours. Ghana Police Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) Effia Tenge, Head of the Public Affairs Unit of the Command, told the Ghana News Agency that the deceased had been active in alleged criminal activities and evasive, and has been on police surveillance for some time now. “Blessing Stephen, a Nigerian, an ex-convict and a notorious armed robber, who usually operates among a gang of six, has been involved in series of highway robberies, including bank robberies and attacks on bullion vans. She said suspect Jessy Osas, believed to be his accomplice and one Godwin Hetor, a receptionist at a guest house, where the deceased and his ac...

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Tramadol Manufacturers in India have rebranded the opioid Tramadol to Tafrodol to evade detection by customs officials at Nigeria’s ports and borders, a report by Enactafrica has revealed. While the name change makes the drug look like Tramadol, Tafrodol contains two ingredients that should not be combined and can reportedly cause respiratory infection, coma and even instant death. The rebranding comes shortly after several shipments of Tramadol were seized at Nigeria’s border posts.  In August 2020, the Nigeria Police Force, Nigerian Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) and National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) intercepted 33 containers of Tramadol shipped from India worth N1.3 trillion in three different locations in Lagos. Analysis by the ENACT organised crime project found that Lagos serves as a major market for Tramadol originating from Asia and shipped in through Cotonou in Benin. It is distributed legally and illegally to other part...