No fewer than 480 police constabularies have protested the alleged non-payment of their 18-month salary in Osun. The constabularies recruited to complement the police structure by providing intelligence, among others were inaugurated in May 2021 at Police Headquarters, Osun State after their training in April 2021. The protesting officers who were in their uniforms, converged…
Gunmen suspected to be kidnappers have abducted the Chairman of Kanke Local Government Council in Plateau state, Hon Henry Gotip. It was gathered that gunmen stormed the residence of the council boss in Jos South local government council of the state in the early hours of Wednesday, September 7, shooting sporadically to scare off residents…
The Kogi State Police Command on Wednesday confirmed a robbery attack on three banks in Ankpa Local Government of the state. It was reported that the robbers who came in their numbers with sophisticated weapons attacked three commercial banks simultaneously on Tuesday. A source in Ankpa confirmed that two persons lost their lives during the…
A 26-year-old lawyer identified as Sulaimon Kaosarat Yetunde has been handed a five-year jail term by a Federal High Court sitting in Lagos for drug trafficking. Justice Daniel Osiagor handed down the verdict on Tuesday, September 6, 2022, following Miss Yetunde’s guilty plea to a charge of conspiracy and the unlawful export of 1.10 kilograms…
A Chief Magistrate Court 15, in Rivers State, has remanded one Chima Amadi and his alleged lover, Orluchi Chima to Port Harcourt Correctional Centre, over the attempted murder of his wife, Nwakaego Leticia Chima. Amadi, 40, and Orluchi, 22, are accused of inflicting grievous bodily harm on Leticia,40, at Omerelu, Ikwerre Local Government Area of…
20 drums of carbide have been intercepted by the Nigeria Customs Service in the Ijebu-Ode area of Ogun State. Acting Custom Area Controller in charge of the Federal Operations Unit Zone A, Comptroller Ejibunnu Hussain who spoke to journalists on Tuesday, September 6, said the seized explosives had a Duty Paid Value of about N33 million….
Olakunle Oluomo, the speaker of the Ogun House of Assembly who was arraigned over alleged N2.5bn money laundering charges by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, has been granted a N300m bail by a federal high court sitting in Lagos. Justice Daniel Osiagor granted Oluomo bail on Tuesday, September 6, following no objections from the…
Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu has said that he’s been in internal turmoil over the lingering strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities. Speaking during the meeting with vice-chancellors and pro-chancellors of federal universities at the National Universities Commission in Abuja on Tuesday, September 6, Adamu said the Federal Government and ASUU have no option than…
Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo state has called out the federal government, saying it is shameful that the country still imports fuel. He said it is unacceptable that a country that is one of the largest producers of crude oil in the world still imports oil. Obaseki said this in Ewohimi, Esan South East Local…
The death toll from the seven-story building that collapsed in the Lekki area of Lagos state has risen to three. The building which was under construction, collapsed in the early hours of Sunday, September 4, leaving six persons trapped. The rescue operation led to the recovery of two bodies. In the early hours of today,…