The Commissioner of Police, Lagos State, CP Hakeem Odumosu, and the entire management team of the command on Saturday, March 27, paid a condolence visit to the family of one Jelili Bakare that was shot dead by one Insp Jonathan Company on March 18. The incident occurred at Quinox lounge at Sangotedo, Area of…
Three persons were on Friday night crushed to death in an accident involving a truck and a motorcycle around Abiola Way, close to Iyana Mortuary in Abeokuta, Ogun State. Public Relations Officer, Ogun Traffic Compliance and Enforcement Corps, Babatunde Akinbiyi, confirmed the accident to the News Agency of Nigeria in Abeokuta on Saturday. Akinbiyi explained that the…
China announced tit-for-tat sanctions against three individuals and one entity from Canada and the United States late Saturday, in response to sanctions imposed earlier this week by the two countries over Beijing’s treatment of Uyghurs. Two members of the US Commission on International Religious Freedom, Gayle Manchin, and Tony Perkins, as well as Canadian MP…
The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation on Friday said it would maintain its current ex-depot price of Premium Motor Spirit otherwise called petrol until the conclusion of ongoing engagement with the organised labour and other stakeholders. NNPC had maintained an ex-depot price of N148/litre since February despite the hike in the actual cost of the commodity,…
Seven vehicles were gutted by fire following an explosion at Otedola Bridge in the early hours of Saturday, March 27. Director-General of Lagos State Emergency Management Agency (LASEMA) Dr. Femi Oke-Osanyintolu who confirmed the incident said the fire has been doused by a rescue team and men of Lagos Fire Service. Osanyintolu also told newsmen that the…
Self-acclaimed Yoruba activist, Sunday Igboho has distanced himself from purported plan to attack the Alake of Igbaland, Oba Adedotun Gbadebo for not supporting the proposed Yoruba nation. Igboho’s spokesman, Olayomi Koiki in a video had threatened to attack Oba Gbadebo and other monarch who did not support the Yoruba nation. But Igboho said Koiki spoke…
Terrorist bandits on Friday abducted 8 members of Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG) Region 30, Trinity Sanctuary, Kaduna, who were on the church bus travelling for evangelism. This is coming after continued captivity of 39 students of Federal College of Forestry Mechanisation, Afaka, Kaduna State 17 days after they were abducted by armed bandits….
A 21-year-old man, Afolabi Samuel has been sentenced to one-year imprisonment by an Abeokuta Magistrates’ Court, on Friday for stealing money and a mobile phone in a church. Samuel, of no fixed address, pleaded guilty to the two-count charge of stealing. The Magistrate, Mr D.S. Ogongo, in his judgment, said all pieces of evidence tendered…
President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday paid tribute to the patriotic martyrs of the Nigerian civil war which lasted 30 months. The Nigerian leader noted that their glorious sacrifices enabled the unity of this great nation. In a statement by spokesman, Garba Shehu, Buhari said Nigerians on both sides lost numerous lives and prayed that “never…
24 suspected internet fraudsters have been arrested by the operatives of the Lagos Zonal Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC. The suspects were arrested at their various residences in the Sango area of Ogun State, on March 21, following intelligence reports received by the Commission about their involvement in the alleged criminal…