Crime

The Kwara State Government has raised the alarm over vandalism and theft of streetlight cables and bulbs and other components of solar farm tunnels currently being built in Ilorin under the Light-Up Kwara (LUK) project. In a statement issued via its Facebook page on Thursday, the government described activities of the vandals as sabotage and warned that anybody caught vandalizing …

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 The International Press Centre (IPC) Lagos has condemned the attack on the Secretary of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), Osun State Council and some other journalists on Monday 16th of July, 2018. In a release signed by Melody Akinjiyan Program Officer/Safety Desk Officer, details from Nigerian Tribune has it that, “Suspected hoodlums attacked some journalists at a press conference addressed …

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Security men at the Lagos State Polytechnic (LASPOTECH),Ikorodu, on Wednesday, brutalized the mother of an admission seeker into the school for interfering in their handling of her son wearing a ear ring to the school. Mrs. Folake Sokoya,  who sustained injuries in many parts of the body from the blows dealt her by the security men,  had sent her son, …

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By Folake Sokoya Lagos State Police Command has arrested a  two man human trafficking syndicate who specialises in recruiting  teenage girl from Rivers,  Imo and Akwa-Ibom States for prostitution. The victims were said to have been recruited from their villages with a promise of a better life and were also taken to a shrine where they were forced to take …

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The Presidency, Senate and Minister of Finance, Mrs Kemi Adeosun, have kept mute over allegations published by Premium Times, at the weekend, that she skipped the mandatory National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) and subsequently obtained a forged exemption certificate in 2009. The minister reportedly graduated from the Polytechnic of East London, in the United Kingdom, in 1989, at 22. The …

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Kwara State Governor, Dr Abdulfatah Ahmed, has hailed the Supreme Court verdict on Senate President, Dr Bukola Saraki’s assets declaration and sundry charges instituted against him before the Code of Conduct Tribunal. The Governor, in a statement by his Chief Press Secretary, Abdulwahab Oba described the apex court as a bastion of democracy in the country. According to the governor, …

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The Supreme Court on Friday finally laid to rest the trial of a Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki, on assets declaration and sundry charges instituted against him before the Code of Conduct Tribunal. A five-man panel of the apex court led by Justice Dattijo Muhammad unanimously upheld Saraki’s appeal, by dismissing the remnant three counts, declaring the evidence led by …

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The police officers seen in a video assaulting a young lawyer said to be demanding for his salary and posted on the Instagram with the caption “SARS officers assault young lawyer allegedly demanding for his salary in Lagos,” had caught the attention of the Commissioner of Police, Lagos State, CP Edgal Imohimi who constituted an investigation panel to look into …

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Family of Pa Olapade Adedokun has petitioned the Nigeria Police to unravel the mystery behind the death of wife of former member of the House of Representatives, Honourable Sikiru Olayemi Busari. Mrs. Oluwakemi Busari was pronounced dead by her husband at their house situated at Aerodrome, Samonda area of Oyo state under mysterious circumstances as opposed to her husband, Honourable …

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Folake Sokoya Mr. Sunday Omosule, the landlord of No 23, Adeoye Street in Oko Baale Onipanu are of Ogun state  has been arrested by the Police for killing Joseph Sunday Akpan his tenant’s 4-year old  son. The landlord was arrested after the Police at Onipanu Divisional headquarters got a distress call that the said landlord went berserk and started using mortal pestle …

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