Crime

Men of Ogun State Police Command has rescued a kidnapped Chinese national, Mr. Lee Xian Qiang. Lee was kidnapped by six armed men at Ogere area along Lagos- Ibadan expressway at about 5pm yesterday, Monday, October 30, 2017 on his way to Abeokuta from Kogi State. Upon information that kidnappers were at work, the Commissioner of Police, CP Ahmed Iliyasu …

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Lagos Murder Case: Women Arise, CEE-HOPE Seek Justice For Murdered Engineer Members of civil society groups; Women Arise and CEE-HOPE have staged a peaceful protest at the Ebute Metta Magistrate court to seek justice for the murdered engineer, Lawrence Idoko who was allegedly stabbed by his wife, Folashade in their Ijanikin, Lagos residence. Lawrence Idoko, a 33-year old pipeline engineer …

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After Weeks of unrelenting follow up and deploying Advanced Technology, IRT Special Teams deployed to Jigawa, Katsina, Niger and Kaduna States have arrested the most deadly kidnapping group operating along Abuja-Kaduna-Kano  expressway. The gang according to the Police Force Public Relations Officer, Jimoh Moshood, is responsible for the killing of Barrister Sheriff Yazid on September 17, 2017 and the kidnapping …

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  Mounir Gwarzo, Director-General of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), allegedly got a severance package of N104 million from the same commission shortly after he was named DG in 2015, Thecable news has said. He was an executive commissioner at SEC when former President Goodluck Jonathan appointed him to lead the commission on May 22, 2015. On assuming office …

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Alarmed by the scandal surrounding the reinstatement of the dismissed former Chairman of the Presidential Task Force on Pension Reforms, Abdulrasheed Maina, into the Federal Civil Service, Organised Labour under the auspices of Association of Senior Civil Servants of Nigeria (ASCSN) has urged President Muhammadu Buhari to reshuffle his ‘kitchen cabinet’.   In a press statement issued in Lagos, the …

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The Senate has commenced investigation of the circumstances surrounding the return of embattled ex-Chairman of the Presidential Task Force on Pension Reforms,  Abdulrasheed Maina, and his reinstatement into the civil service of the Federal Government. The lawmakers at the plenary on Tuesday took turns to condemn those in the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari, who they said were rubbishing the …

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Tayo Olanipekun A female Corps Member has taken to the social media to narrate how she wrestled with a commercial motor cyclist, popularly called Okada rider, who attempted to rape her in an isolated part of the road from her place of primary assignment for the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC). Explaining on Instagram, today, under the username,Snowwhite2911, Wannirebie Ayo …

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An oil bunkerer turned car vandal arrested on early Friday morning by the operatives of the Rapid Response Squad of the Lagos Police Command has confessed to participating in the vandalisation of over 57 cars in Lagos. The suspect; Kunle Afolabi, 31, an ex – convict from Oye – Ekiti was arrested by the operatives around 4:00 a.m. on Friday …

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 The General Manager, Lagos State Emergency Management  Agency (LASEMA), Adesina Tiamiyu, has said the Agency received a  distress call  from the Lekki Concession Company (LCC) officials regarding a man who reportedly jumped into the lagoon around  the Lekki Toll Gate bridge at about  09:58 am on Friday. The footage which was captured through the close circuit cameras revealed that the …

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*** Lagos Has Highest Number of Prisoners Tayo Olanipekun Persons incarcerated for stealing, robbery and armed robbery topped the number of those admitted into Nigerian prisons for various offences last year with Lagos, Rivers and Kano recording the highest inmates population, statistics has shown. The Prison Statistics released by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) on Thursday revealed that a …

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