Traders at the Alade Market in Shomolu area of Lagos State have called for assistance following the fire disaster they suffered on Tuesday this week. The traders said they suffered losses in millions of naira as the fire destroyed at least one hundred and five shops at the Shomolu Market. Some of the traders who spoke with…
• Investigate mother, child murder in Ozubulu Police have rescued eight children, including five newborns, from a gang of child traffickers that operates from Oraifite, in Ekwusigo Local Government Area. The Police Public Relations Officer, CSP HARUNA MOHAMMED, said pregnant women were among ten suspects who were arrested by the police during the operation. CSP MOHAMMED gave…
The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project, SERAP, has asked the Federal Government to provide details of its plan to share seven hundred and twenty-nine billion naira to twenty-four point three million poor Nigerians. SERAP’s request was made under the Freedom of Information Act, dated January 23, 2021 and signed by its Deputy Director, KOLAWOLE OLUWADARE. According to…
The National Youth Service Corps has called up members of the 2020 Batch B, Stream Two to camps in the thirty-six states and Abuja. The NYSC Director-General, Brigadier General SHUAIBU IBRAHIM, has congratulated the successful candidates on their call-up to serve the nation. Brigadier General IBRAHIM informed that the incoming Corps members should prepare take time to…
OBIANUJU CATHERINE UDEH, better known as DJ SWITCH, has denied the claim by the Nigerian Army that soldiers who fired gunshots during the EndSARS protest at Lekki Tollgate on October 20 offered water and drinks to the protesters. DJ SWITCH is insisting that she was personally threatened by the Army Officer who led the operation, and that…
PDetectives from the Lagos State Police Command have tracked down and arrested four suspected armed robbers in Kaduna State after robbing a man in the Bariga area of Lagos. The suspects are JUNIOR MICHAEL, PIUS EKO, SAMSON YUNANA, and DANIEL YAKI, who are between eighteen and twenty-two years of age. The State Police Command spokesman, OLUMUYIWA ADEJOBI,…