The Civil Liberties Organisation in Lagos State has added its voice to calls on President Muhammadu Buhari to declare a national emergency on security The Lagos State Branch of the CLO made the call after an emergency General Meeting, stressing that its decision was informed by the current security situation in Nigeria. The CLO statement was jointly…
The police in Lagos State have rescued a man and his wife who were locked up in a room inside their house by their children for more than twelve months. Surajudeen Jaji and his wife, who are both over seventy years old, were rescued around Bucknor, in Ejigbo Local Council Development Area of Lagos. The Police Public…
The Lagos State Special Offences Court has heard how a former Secretary of the State Scholarship Board, Stephen Oshinowo, allegedly diverted the sum of one hundred and twenty-seven million naira. The revelation was made by an investigator with the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Monday Moley, after Oshinowo was arraigned on an amended eight counts on criminal…
The Lagos State Judicial Panel of Inquiry on Restitution for victims of abuses by SARS returned to work today and took a decision to summon the Inspector General of Police. The Panel wants IGP Mohammed Adamu to appear in connection to a petition by seventy-six-year-old Adewale Adewuyi. The petitioner claimed that the police seized his twenty-six acres…
The proposed transfer of Eti-Osa to Epe Administrative Division in Lagos State continues to receive knocks from stakeholders. The proposal is contained in a bill before the Lagos State House of Assembly, which has already passed second reading. The President of Eti-osa Heritage Organisation Adewale Sanni said there was no basis for Eti-Osa to be moved to…
The Lagos Judicial Panel of Inquiry on Police Brutality and Restitution returned to work on Tuesday, February 16, 2021, without two of its nine members. Just as we reported earlier; two of the Panel’s members who were absent are Ebun-Olu Adegboruwa and Rinuola Oduala. Adegboruwa, who is a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, had in a statement over…