The Lagos State Police Command has arrested the Divisional Police Officer in charge of Onikan Station, Mr. Adekunle Awe for alleged rape and threat to life. Our correspondent learnt that two other policemen of the rank of inspector were also arrested as part of ongoing investigations. A 31-year-old cook, Idowu Akinwunmi, had accused Awe of raping her in his office ... Read More »
A Nigerian man, Ozioma Kenneth Odeomenan has been arrested in New Delhi India with 330g of heroin worth $120,000 concealed in ladies shoes he was to export to America. According to India police report, Ozioma was arrested after an anonymous tip-off they got on the 14th of April that a Nigerian man carrying hard drugs was coming to the Janakpuri metro station. A ... Read More »
This is from premiumtimes There is controversy over the rescue of abducted school girls in Borno with the state government and the school principal faulting the military’s claim that most of the pupils have been freed The claim by military officials in Abuja on Wednesday that 107 abducted girls of Government Girls Secondary School (GGSS) Chibok were freed is ... Read More »
The Nigerian military is joining the search for at least 100 teenage girls abducted from a school in Chibok, Borno State. It is thought that Islamist militant group Boko Haram took them to a forest near the Cameroonian border. The air force, army, police and local volunteers are all involved in the search, officials say. The BBC’s Hausa Service says ... Read More »
Former BCC Lions and Super Eagles midfield star Moses Kpakor has dispelled rumours that he died in Monday’s twin bomb blast in the Nyanya area of the Nigerian capital city, Abuja, which officially claimed 75 lives. Writing yesterday evening on his Facebook wall, Kpakor, who is presently Senior Football Coach, Benue State University, Makurdi, described the claim as baseless, as ... Read More »
Lagos lawyer and rights activist, Mr Ebun-Olu Adegbouruwa, yesterday, called on Nigerians to hold the Lagos State Government and all those who have vested interests in the Lekki Ikoyi bridge toll fee, responsible for any harm that may come his way, following the invasion of his Lekki home Monday night by eight armed men. Adegbouruwa in a statement, said: “On ... Read More »
I completely condemned the bomb attack on a motor park in Nyanya, a satellite community on the outskirts of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja. This is very inhuman, ungodly and barbaric. I don’t even have the adjectives to describe what these mad people have done. As far as I am concerned, the perpetrators are not human beings and in ... Read More »
Scores of girls have been abducted in an attack on a school in North-East Nigeria, parents say. Gunmen reportedly arrived at the school in Chibok, Borno State, late last night, and ordered the hostel’s teenage residents on to four lorries. Parents told the BBC’s Hausa service that at least 200 girls had been abducted. The attackers are thought to be ... Read More »
A student of the University of Benin has drowned in a hotel swimming pool in the Ipaja area of Lagos State. we learnt that the victim, Chukwudi Nwaobi, had gone to relax at Infinity Hotel, Abesan Estate, on April 1, 2014, when the tragic incident occurred. The family of the 20-year-old student of Sociology, however, blamed the hotel for the ... Read More »
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Monday, April 14, 2014 arraigned Sunkami Odewande, before Justice S. S Ogunsanya of Lagos State High Court, sitting in Ikeja, on a 4- count charge bordering on obtaining money by false pretences and possession of documents containing false information. One of the charges read, “Sunkami Odewande sometime on or about December ... Read More »
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