The Lagos State Police Command says that there have been four murders in the state in the last seven days. The event was reported to journalists on Saturday by SP Benjamin Hundeyin, the Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO) in Lagos. According to Hundeyin, four people were detained in relation to the cases. He claimed that Read More…
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Florida jury decides not to execute Parkland school shooter
A Florida jury opted on Thursday to spare Nikolas Cruz, the gunman who killed 17 people at a high school in the city of Parkland in 2018, the death sentence, instead recommending life in prison. Some victims’ families shook their heads in the Fort Lauderdale courtroom as the jury rejected the prosecution’s plea for the Read More…
US elected official arrested over death of investigative journalist
A Las Vegas-area elected public official has been arrested and identified by police as the suspect in the fatal stabbing of a veteran newspaper reporter whose investigations of the official’s work preceded his primary loss in June. Clark County Public Administrator Robert “Rob” Telles, a Democrat, was taken into custody at his home by a Read More…
Police confirm the killing of Mile 12 Park leader
The Lagos State Police Command has confirmed the killing of one Alhaji Sulaimon Onaolapo, popularly known as Akiru, who was the leader of Mile-12 Lagos Parks and Garages. The command’s spokesperson, SP Benjamin Hundeyin confirmed the killing on Monday. “One Alhaji Sule was killed following the incident at Mile 12. No arrest made yet. Normalcy Read More…
Police inspector killed in Lagos by gunmen
Lagos State police command, on Wednesday confirmed the killing of an Inspector by gunmen in the Coker Aguda area of Lagos. SP Benjamin Hundeyin, the spokesman for Lagos State Police Command, said the Inspector was inside a commercial tricycle when he was shot. He said that the command has launched investigations to track and arrest Read More…
Father reveals son Sylvester Oromoni was not taken to hospital
Sylvester Oromoni Jnr, the late Dowen College Student who was alleged by his family to have sustained injuries as a result of bullying by five senior students of the college was not treated at a hospital. Mr Sylvester Oromoni Snr, the father of late Oromoni Jnr made the revelation on Monday before an Ikeja Coroner’s Read More…
Wife, 3 others arrested over hotelier’s death in Lagos
The police in Lagos have arrested the wife of a hotel owner and three others after she was alleged to have stabbed her hotelier husband to death. The wife of the owner of the popular Bama Hotel and Suites, Abule-Egba, allegedly stabbed her husband on Monday night after finding out that he had impregnated another Read More…
Sylvester Oromoni: Ijaw Youth Council rejects Lagos DPP advice, hires SAN
The Ijaw Youth Council (IYC) has rejected the Advice of the Lagos State Directorate of Public Prosecution (DPP) exonerating students and officials of Dowen College, Lagos, from the death of Sylvester Oromoni, a student of the college. The group has hired the legal services of Chief Anthony George-Ikoli (SAN) to seek justice over the demise Read More…
Buhari mourns murdered 5-year-old Hanifa, lauds arrest of culprits
President Muhammadu Buhari has expressed the nation’s condolences to the family of the five-year-old school girl, Hanifa Abubakar, whose body was discovered in a shallow grave in Kano after nearly two months of fruitless search. The president, in a statement on Friday in Abuja by his media aide, Malam Garba Shehu, also praised the work Read More…
Security guard tells how he discovered Ataga’s body
Lagos, Nov. 16, 2021 (NAN) The security guard at the apartment where Mr Usifo Ataga, Super TV Chief Executive Officer, was allegedly murdered, on Tuesday said he was the person who discovered the corpse of the victim. The security guard, Abubakar Mohammed, said this while testifying before a Lagos High Court sitting at the Tafawa Read More…