Toyin, a suspected female ritualist who was rescued from being executed by an angry crowd who caught her during an alleged attempt to snatch an eight-month-old baby in the Ebute-Metta area of Lagos State, has died in the hospital. SP Benjamin Hundeyin, Lagos State Police Public Relations Officer, who confirmed the development, said Toyin was Read More…
President Muhammadu Buhari says crude oil robbery must be addressed. He made the statement during the inauguration of the Presidential Committee on National Economy which he initiated in his office on Friday. Acknowledging the impact of the nuisance on the nation’s revenue exchange, the President reminded them that production of crude oil owing to economic Read More…
The Police Command in Lagos State has arrested five suspected telecommunication cable thieves in the Ikoyi area of the state. SP Benjamin Hundeyin, the command’s spokesman, confirmed the arrest in a statement on Thursday. He identified the detained suspects as Yekini Mohammed, 52; Mohammed Abdullahi, 37; Tukur Mukaila, 42; Abdulrazaq Abdulrahmon, 25; and Danladi Nura, Read More…
The Murtala Mohammed International Airport Cargo Command of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has intercepted 7000 pieces of male donkey genitals being smuggled out of the country to Hong Kong. Sambo Dangaladima, the command’s Customs Area Controller, disclosed while addressing journalists. “The importers falsely declared these illegal wildlife parts as cow male genitals. After due Read More…
The Lagos State Domestic and Sexual Violence Agency (DSVA) said that it had received complaints of child defilement against Femi Olaleye, a medical doctor. Titilola Vivour-Adeniyi, the executive secretary of the agency made this known on the agency’s Twitter handle on Thursday. She said that the agency received a complaint of child abuse on March Read More…
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…
Olamilekan Adebanjo, 17-year-old teenage boy, was on Tuesday arraigned at an Ikeja Magistrates’ Court for alleged burglary and stealing of valuables worth N250,000. The defendant, whose address was not provided, is standing trial on a two-count charge of burglary and stealing has however, pleaded not guilty before Magistrate Ejiro Kubeinje. DSP Kehinde Ajayi, the prosecutor, Read More…
Isiaka Asoju, 48, who allegedly defrauded a man of N155milion, under the pretext of selling a 15-acre land to him, was on Tuesday brought before a Yaba Chief Magistrates’ Court. The defendant who is to face trial on a charge of obtaining under false pretence has, however, pleaded not guilty to the charges. SP Ogbunike, Read More…
Operatives of the Lagos Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), have invited two members of staff of Newworks Solutions and Investment Limited to tell what they know about an alleged fraud running into billions of naira. The EFCC’s move followed intelligence received by the Commission claiming that the Ministry of Interior Read More…
A suspected traffic robber, Charles Igbadoh, notorious for dispossessing motorists of their belongings at the Ilubirin end of the Third Mainland Bridge in Lagos has been arrested by the Lagos State Police Command. The spokesperson for the Command, SP Benjamin Hundeyin, announced the arrest in a statement made available to newsmen on Thursday in Lagos. Read More…
