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Friday 7 May 2021

23-Year-Old Drug Trafficker, Okoguale With lItaly-Bound Heroin Intercepted At Abuja Airport, NDLEA Nabs Trafficker

 


A 23-year-old drug trafficker, Okoguale Douglas has excreted 59 wraps of heroin weighing 781.2 grammes following his arrest at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, while trying to board a Milan, Italy bound flight.

Douglas, who hails from Uromi in Esan North-East Local Government area of Edo state, was arrested by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforeement Agency NDLEA, during an outward clearance of Ethiopian airline flight number 910 at

the boarding gate of the airport enroute Abuja-Addis Ababa- Milan (Italy) after being scanned, which proved positive for ingestion.

Former Women Affairs Minister, Aisha Jummai Alhassan, Is Dead

 

A former Minister of Women Affairs during the first tenure of President Muhammadu Buhari, Senator Aisha Jummai Alhassan, is dead.

Popularly called ‘Mama Taraba’, Jummai Alhassan was a member of the 7th Senate having been elected on the platform of the PDP. She later dumped the party for APC and was the governorship candidate of the party in the 2015 elections in Taraba State.

She died in a Cairo hospital, Egypt.