Gunmen have kidnapped four Chinese men working on the Lagos-Ibadan railway project. The attack happened at the Adeaga/Alaagba project site, in Kila village, which is located between Ogun and Oyo states. Reports say the gunmen also killed a police officer who was providing security for the Chinese men. A man who claimed to have witnessed the incident,…
The Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Hakeem Odumosu, has boasted that traffic robbery will soon become a thing of the past in Lagos. C.P. Odumosu made the boast following the arrest of one hundred and twenty-seven suspected traffic robbers in Lagos in the last three months. They include twenty-one-year-old Tunde Ramoni, who was arrested at Ojota on…
Bandits have abducted some students of the Federal Government Girls College, Birnin Yauri, in Kebbi State. Details of the incident are still not very clear, but some unconfirmed reports claim that about thirty students and at least five teachers were taken away by the bandits. The Kebbi State Police Command spokesman, Nafiu Abubakar, confirmed the incident to…
The Police High Command in Abuja has paraded suspected members of a criminal gang who specialize in vandalism and theft of rail tracks in the North-West and North-Central parts of the country. Force Public Relations Officer, C.P. Frank Mbah, identified the suspects as forty-two-year-old Idris Lawal; twenty-nine-year-old Abdullahi Musa; and twenty-two-year-old Usman Umar. C.P. Mbah said the…
Nollywood actor accused of sexually abusing a minor, Olanrewaju Omiyinka, popularly known as Baba Ijesha, has been dragged before the Yaba Magistrates’ Court in Lagos State. Baba Ijesha was taken to court inside a Black Maria earlier today, but the court refused to grant the bail application filed on his behalf by his lawyers. Before he was…
Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission have arrested two fake agents and a mobile policeman in the Lekki area of Lagos. The suspected imposters are Pascal Chijioke and Sodiq Adekunle, while the mobile policeman who is accused of partnering with them is Edwin Bassey. The suspects were arrested at the New Horizon Estate in Lekki…