Crime

Kidnappers Shot Dead,Victim Rescued In Ogun

Folake Sokoya Luck ran out on two suspected members of a kidnap syndicate on Thursday when they engaged men of the Federal Special Anti Robbery Squad (FSARS) in a gun battle as the police tried to rescue an abducted woman. Trouble started at about 1:00pm when a distress call was made to the Police that one Mrs Ajayi, a pastor’s …

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School Of Nursing Admission Adverts Fake,Lagos Govt Raises Alarm

Lagos State government has distanced itself from fake advertorials making the rounds on the internet about admission into the state School of Nursing,saying they are fake. The Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Health, Dr. Modele Osunkiyesi, who made this known on Friday through a signed disclaimer notice to the public, stressed that some unscrupulous group of people place the fake advertisements …

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Police Parades Suspected Cannabis Dealers In Lagos

Photo Caption: Lagos Commissioner of Police, Mr. Imohimi Edgal explaining some points, during the Parade of suspected Cannabis dealers at the Police Command, Lagos …on. Thursday March 1, 2018, ‎   Advertisement Photo Caption: Suspected Cannabis dealers arrested at different locations when they were paraded at Police Command, Ikeja in Lagos‎…on. Thursday March 1, 2018

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My husband Employed Imam To Sleep With Me For 3-Days –Wife

A divorce seeking wife has accused her husband of employing an Islamic preacher to have sex with her for money-making ritual purposes. The woman, Musilimotu Olashuyi, 48, claimed that she introduced her husband, Gbenga Olashuyi, 55, to the unnamed Alfa because she used to frequent his mosque for prayers. She said at some point, the Alfa noticed that Olashuyi’s business wasn’t …

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Stop Using Illicit Drugs, Firearms, Lagos CP Warns Youths

Folake Sokoya Lagos Commissioner of Police, Edgal Imohimi, has said the youth must desist from sales and use of illicit drugs, unlawful possession and use of firearms, and cultism or incur the wrath of the law. Imohimi made this declaration on Wednesday in view of the recent development of some youths in the Aguda Surulere, Itire and Akala-Mushin areas of …

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Investment Tribunal Awards N3m Damages Against Meristem Securities

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The Investments and Securities Tribunal (IST), sitting in Abuja, has awarded general damages of N3 million in favour of an investor in the capital market for losses and hardship suffered in the hands of his stockbrokers. This is contained in a statement signed by the Acting Director, Corporate Affairs, IST, Kenneth Ezra. According to the statement, delivering judgment in a …

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Lagos CP Commiserates With Neighbourhood Watch Over Slain Colleague

Folake Sokoya Lagos State Commissioner of Police, CP Edgal Imohimi, on Thursday, visited the Aguda-Surulere office of the Lagos State Neighbourhood Watch to commiserate with them over the death of one of their colleagues,Mr Moshood Bolaji. Bolaji was killed on Wednesday at about 9:30 pm, at Umunede Bar in Mallam Isah close, Aguda-Surulere,by a gang of five cultists. Similarly, the …

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Abuses, Unlawful Killings: Amnesty International Gives Nigeria’s Scorecard

Tayo Olanipekun The Amnesty International (AI) has given a scathing report on Nigeria for 2017, accusing the country of carrying out extrajudicial executions, enforced disappearances, attacks on journalists, forcible evictions and crackdown on protesters. In its report released on Thursday, AI said torture and other ill-treatment and unlawful detention by the police and the State Security Service (SSS) continued, much …

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NSCDC Shoots Community Vigilance Team Member At Ikarama Bayelsa

 By: Amos OKioma A team of Nigeria Security and Civil Defense Corps (NSCDC) in the early hours of Tuesday shot a neighborhood watch member in Ikarama, Yenagoa Local Government Area in Bayelsa and subsequently trigged a youth protest.. It will be recalled that an operative of the NSCDC had in 2017 shot at a medical doctor damaging his vehicle over …

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Offa-Ijagbo Clash: Gov Reads Riots Act To perpetrators

Folake Sokoya Kwara State Governor, Dr Abdulfatah Ahmed, has warned that he will deal decisively with perpetrators of the communal clash between the people of Offa and Ijagbo in Offa Local Government and Oyun Local Government respectively of the state. Governor Ahmed, in a statement signed by his Chief Press Secretary, Abdulwahab Oba, expressed concern over the “unwarranted and absolutely …

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