The police at Area ‘A’ Command, Campbell Street, Lagos Island, southwest Nigeria have arrested three robbery suspects and recovered three vehicles from them, while three others escaped after they robbed members of the public and traders of their valuables at Kakawa, Tinubu area of Lagos Island. The incident, according to a police source, occurred when [...]
JETHRO IBILEKE/Benin Following public outcry and demand by family members of Ibrahim Momoh, the final year Laboratory Science student of University of Benin, UNIBEN, who was killed less than two weeks ago, the Edo State Police Command has exhumed his body for post-mortem. Approval for the exhumation was issued to Dr. Wilson Akhiwu, a Deputy [...]
The police in Lagos have launched a manhunt for the suspected kidnappers of the Managing Director of Smartpoly Products and Tokslordmat Ltd., Martins Adams, and his only son, Ireoluwa Adams, 7. They were abducted on Sunday at about 5.30 p.m. at the company premises on 298, Lagos-Abeokuta Expressway, Pleasure Bus Stop, Iyana Ipaja, beside NNPC [...]
By Salihu Lukman The election of Chairman of Nigeria Governors Forum, NGF, finally held on Friday, 24 May and Governor Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers State emerged victorious. He polled 19 votes out of 35 and his opponent, Governor Jonah Jang of Plateau, got 16 votes. The election result was significant not just for the NGF [...]
A 5-man panel of the Supreme Court on Friday in Abuja dismissed an appeal instituted by sacked former governor of Ekiti State, Chief Segun Oni of the Peoples Democratic Party wherein he sought for the apex court to upturn the Court of Appeal’s verdict that sacked him from Ekiti State Government House. Oni had hoped [...]
Commercial and other social activities were on Monday, 27 May, paralysed in Ilorin, Kwara state capital, following a violent protest by students of the Kwara State Polytechnic. One of the students was allegedly shot by a police escort attached to one of the leading banks in the area. The incident which occurred at about 2.10pm [...]
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 [...]
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