At least 164 suspects have been arrested at various black spots on Lagos Island during a massive raid carried out by the police. The Assistant Commissioner of Police, ACP, in charge of Area ‘A’, Lion Building, Campbell Street, Lagos Island, Mr. I. O. Edgar, at the weekend, led the joint operation comprising military personnel, mobile [...]
A driver, Edem Bassey Effiong, a native of Calabar, Cross River State, south-south Nigeria, has disappeared with his employer’s Toyota Corolla saloon car barely three days after he was employed. The incident, according to a police source, occurred when the driver was sent by his boss identified as Mr. Bryant Oluwole to drop his wife [...]
British Prime Minister David Cameron and world football chief Sepp Blatter led the tributes on Wednesday after Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson announced he was standing down at the end of the season. While former players hailed his extraordinary record of winning trophies, former United midfielder Paul Ince warned that his successor would find Ferguson’s [...]
The Lagos State House of Assembly has warned the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) against making inciting statements that could best be described as an attempt to witch-hunt the administration of Governor Babatunde Fashola. The House made this point while condemning the call by the Lagos State Chairman of the PDP, Chief Tunji Shelle, on the [...]
Nigeria’s Inspector-General of Police, IGP, MD Abubakar, has counselled the nine officers recently promoted by the force to help redeem the image of the law enforcement agency. Abubakar stated this while decorating the senior officers recently elevated from the ranks of Deputy Commissioners of Police to the substantive rank of Commissioners of Police. The IGP [...]
A housewife, Mrs Rose Abbey from Edo State, south south Nigeria, was locked up in a micro finance bank called B C Cash located at Ipaja, Lagos State, southwest Nigeria, following her inability to service the N17,000 loan she borrowed from the bank. The woman alleged that she was abducted and beaten up and locked [...]
A 25-year old commercial motorcyclist, known in local parlance as okada rider, Etenuwoma Oghenero, has been sentenced to death by hanging by an Isiokolo High Court of Justice, for armed robbery. The convicted armed robber who hails from Ethiope East Local Government Area of Delta State, southsouth Nigeria, along with others now at large, allegedly [...]
