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The Ogun State Government is taking proactive measures to prevent clashes between herdsmen and farmers and also ensure that lives and property within the state are safer. Towards this end, the state government has held a meeting with leaders of the various interest groups, including leaders of the Fulani, Hausa communities and Miyetti Allah Cattle…
The Lagos State Police Command on Tuesday arrested an Islamic cleric, Alfa Kayode Abdul-Fatai in Alakuko area of the State for being in illegal possession of human parts including a female private organ. The suspect, who was arrested at No. 4, Okedumola Street, Off Obadare area of Alakuko, was said to have also been caught…
Men of Nigerian Customs shoot man to death in Lagos. Pandemonium broke out the morning as trigger-happy operatives of the Nigerian Customs Service ( NCS ) on Wednesday morning killed a man at Oko-Oba, Lagos. The operatives were said to have opened fire after they sighted a bus suspected to be carrying smuggled rice. Pay Attention.…
I ask you in the name of God to accommodate your country men. You can also be assured that I am just as worried, and concerned with the situation President Muhammadu Buhari Monday in Abuja called on the government and people of Benue State to exercise restraint following the recent attacks on some communities, assuring…
Trouble brewing in Ifo Lg, Ojodu Abiodun Area to be specific. Policemen attached to the Ojodu Abiodun Police Station in the Ifo Local Government Area of Ogun State were stunned on Sunday as some youths invaded the division and vandalised Station building. The assailants reportedly broke into the holding cell of the station, freed detained suspects…
By Wole Soyinka Nobel Laureate urges the Nigerian government to do more in resolving the violence between herdsmen and farmers. It is happening all over again. History is repeating itself and, alas, within such an agonisingly short span of time. How often must we warn against the enervating lure of appeasement in face of aggression…
Undergraduate beheads mother. The Police Command in Osun on Monday said it had arrested one Joseph Mark, a 25-year-old undergraduate of the Adekunle Ajasin University, Ondo, who beheaded his mother on Sunday. The Public Relations Officer of the command, DSP Folashade Odoro, told newsmen in Osogbo that the incident happened at about 6:30 am, at…
These are not the best of times for the family of Aliyus of FCT, Abuja, Nigeria, as the Independent Corrupt Practices and other related offences Commission says it will on Tuesday (today) arraign Mrs. Maimuna Aliyu, the mother of Maryam Sanda, who allegedly killed her husband, Bilyamin Bello. The police had last week arraigned the…
The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission says it will on Tuesday arraign Mrs. Maimuna Aliyu, the mother of Maryam Sanda who allegedly killed her husband, Bilyamin Bello. The police had last week arraigned Maryam before an FCT High Court sitting in Jabi for allegedly killing her husband who is the son of…
Yewande Oyediran, a former staff of the Department of Public Prosecution in the Oyo State Ministry of Justice, who was convicted of manslaughter for killing her husband Lowo, was on Monday handed a seven years jail term by Justice Muntar Abimbola of the Oyo State High Court sitting in Ibadan. Yewande, a lawyer, was accused…
