When Michael Adebolajo was filmed clutching the bloodied knives he apparently used to butcher a soldier, Britons were chilled by the strong London accent in which he spoke of his Islamist motives. How could one of their own have become so radicalised? A picture is slowly emerging of the 28-year-old, one of two men of [...]
The Lagos State Government has shut down two churches and six companies over cases of environmental pollution in various parts of the state in southwest Nigeria. Officials of the Lagos State Environmental Protection Agency, LASEPA, shut the affected places after serving them abatement notices, which they failed to comply. The enforcement was led by Mr. [...]
The Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria, PFN, has called on the Federal Government to set up machinery for compensating the victims of the Boko Haram insurgency across the nation. PFN, at a news conference on the state of the nation held at Ajao Estate area of Lagos, southwest Nigeria, on Thursday lamented that a number of [...]
Nigerian airlines must do all they can to prevent drug trafficking, Nigeria’s anti-drug trafficking boss, Ahmadu Giade, said on Thursday, just days after a cabin crew with Arik Air was arrested in London with six kilogrammes of cocaine. Giade, who was represented by the Commander of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, at the [...]
The Lagos State Government are one of the lead participants and supporters at the Upcoming CEO Forum on Children’s Rights and the Business Sector scheduled for 30 May in Lagos at the Wheatbaker Hotel. The event hosted by the Children and Business Network Nigeria is an advocacy platform established to engage the business sector and [...]
The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) in Jigawa on Thursday arrested a 50-year old hunter for allegedly impregnating his 17-year old step granddaughter in Dutse. The NSCDC Commandant, Mr Muhammad Gidado, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) that the suspect was arrested over alleged incest. Gidado said that the suspect, married to [...]
The police at Ilemba Hausa, Ajangbadi Division, Lagos State, southwest Nigeria, have arrested four suspects who allegedly steal or buy children from Lagos and sell in the eastern part of the country. The suspects include a couple, Mr. and Mrs. Chibueze Mbah, Mrs. Benedict Ogbonna and Mrs. Patricia Mbogu, who allegedly bought one of the [...]
