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A week after a U.S. court insisted on his extradition for drug related offences, Nigerian senator Buruji Kashamu has been accused by some lawyers of alleged threat to their lives. A group of lawyers in Ogun State petitioned the state Commissioner of Police over alleged threat to their lives and attempted murder by Mr. Kashamu,…
The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, said it had arrested additional 21 fleeing militants in the creeks of Arepo, Fatola and other parts of Lagos, bringing the total number of arrests to 40. The agency stated that the ongoing operation against pipeline vandals would not stop until all the miscreants were arrested. The NSCDC…
Some allegedly vandals, responsible for attacks on communities in Lagos and Ogun states in recent times are now escaping in their numbers to communities in the Ilaje and Ese-Odo local government areas of Ondo State. Investigations on Monday showed that the insurgents, who escaped the intensified aerial bombardment by the Nigerian Air Force of their…
The Nigerian Air Force, NAF has released a video of how its fighter jets destroyed suspected militants, who are said to be armed pipeline vandals strongholds at Arepo, Ogun State. The strikes were part of aerial operations to dislodge militants that have terrorised riverside communities of Ogun and Lagos states in recent times. See video…
There was palpable fear everywhere yesterday among residents of some coastal communities in the Arepo axis of Ogun State as guns boomed in the creeks, fueling suspicion that troops might have clashed with militants. The military head of operation in the area has however assured that there was no cause for alarm and that lives…
A new Police Commissioner, Ahmed Illiyasu has formally took over control of the state police command, Elewearan in Abeokuta, he promised that the peace and security of the state will not be compromised. Mr. Ahmed Illiyasu visited the state governor, Ibikunle Amosun, immediately after assuming duties. Mr. Illiyasu who was appointed and posted to Ogun…
According to a Punch Newspaper report, a bricklayer, Ola Ibikunle has been caught when he was strangling a 4-year-old-girl, Eniola whom he has just abducted. Eniola and her 11-year-old sister, Opeyemi, were following their father Segun Quadri, to a church around 2pm on Tuesday, July 26. The father was said to have gone some distance…
The Ogun State police command is currently investigating the level of culpability of fuji musician Wasiu Ayinde (KWAM 1) over weekend’s shooting of a university undergraduate at a party in Ago-Iwoye. And that they are inviting Kwam1 for Questioning in regarding to the shooting. The 21-year old student was in a car near Nasfat building opposite…
The Election Tribunal in Ogun State has nullified the election of alleged US wanted drug baron, Buruji Kashamu P.M News reports. The tribunal made the decision today in Abeokuta and ordered a rerun. Prince Dapo Abiodun, the All Progressives Congress,APC Ogun East Senatorial candidate in the March 28 Presidential and National Assembly Election challenged Kashamu’s…
The Ogun State Police Command while acting on a tip-off that the robbers were sighted at Molipa/Ikangba area in Ijebu Ode about 5:30 am on Saturday has arrested some suspected armed robbers who robbed and raped some innocent people of the state. The police operatives who are attached to Igbeba Division of the command swung…
