Traditional leaders in Lagos State have been challenged by the state government to use their position to help end sexual, gender, and domestic abuse. Thursday in Lagos, Nigeria, Mrs. Titilola Viviour-Adeniyi, Executive Secretary of the Lagos State Domestic and Sexual Violence Agency (DSVA), issued the recommendation. She talked to the traditional rulers at a roundtable Read More…
Crime
Shell probes Nigerian oil theft report
A spokeswoman for Shell in Nigeria said on Wednesday that the company is looking into claims that an illegal oil tap ran for nine years on a pipeline it manages. The Trans Escravos pipeline was the starting site for the theft, according to a NNPC spokesman, who also said that the suspected exit point for Read More…
Man convicted after allegedly stealing N40 million truck
Akintayo Olawale, a truck driver, was arraigned before an Ikeja Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday for allegedly stealing a Howo truck valued at N40 million. Olawale, 35, is accused of conspiring and stealing on two counts; his address was not given. He entered a not-guilty plea. The defendant and other people who are still at large Read More…
Police break minors’ tummies bloating syndicate
The Lagos State Police Command on Saturday apprehended four men who allegedly use minors to beg for alms in Lagos traffic. SP Benjamin Hundeyin, the Commands Public Relations Officers stated this via this official Twitter handle. According to him, the men get minors from villages and then get a medical doctor to inject them with Read More…
Police arrests suspected ‘one chance’ syndicate in Lagos
A three-man syndicate that specialises in duping innocent passengers in commercial vehicles has been arrested. SP Benjamin Hundeyin, PRO for Lagos State Police Command on Saturday listed the suspects arrested to be: Abiodun Bamidele, aged 48, Olumide Faleye, aged 45 and a female suspect, Toyin Adekoya, aged 49. He said the suspects were arrested around Read More…
Police investigates boy’s death after injections
The Police Command in Lagos has begun an investigation into the death of a young boy who died after some injections had been supposedly administered to him in a hospital in Ogombo area of Lagos. SP Benjamin Hundeyin, the Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO) in Lagos, confirmed the situation on Thursday. Hundeyin said that the Read More…
Lagos govt warns RTEAN members against disrupting peace
Sola Giwa, Special Adviser to the Governor on Transportation, in a statement on Wednesday warned members of the Road Transport Employers Association of Nigeria (RTEAN) not to upset the peace and tranquillity being enjoyed in Lagos state. He issued the warning after a brawl broke out in some parts of the state, following a protest Read More…
Judge acquits 3 AIICO staff accused of N1.5bn fraud
Three staff members of the American International Insurance Company Limited, (AIICO), who had been accused of N1.5billion fraud on Wednesday were acquitted by Justice Oluwatoyin Taiwo of an Ikeja Special Offences court. Justice Taiwo, in a ruling on a no-case submission filed by the defendants; Onome Harriet, Olajumoke Akano, Olabode Ogunlere and Lanre Fabunmi, the Former Read More…
‘Skuchies’ drug peddlers nabbed by police in Ikorodu
Three persons, including a woman, have been arrested by the Police in Lagos State for allegedly being in possession of 150 bottles of “Skuchies’’ ready for sale. “Skuchies’’ is a zobo-like drink laced with hard drugs like Tramadol. Police spokesman, SP Benjamin Hundeyin confirmed the arrest on Tuesday He stated that a timely intervention by Read More…
Dethroned Lagos ‘Baale’, 1 other slammed 15 years jail term each for faking own kidnap
A dethroned ‘Baale’ (Chief) in Shangisha in Magodo area of Lagos State, Mutiu Ogundare and his brother, Opeyemi Mohammed were sentenced by an Ikeja High Court on Tuesday to 15 years imprisonment each for faking an own kidnap. The court had on June 15 discharged and acquitted the third defendant, Ogundare’s wife, Abolanle. Justice Hakeem Read More…