A non-governmental organization based in Osogbo, Osun State, the Justice Now Foundation, JNF, has called for the arrest and investigation of the operatives of a two-man civil society organisation code-named Civil Societies Coalition for the Emancipation of Osun State, CSCEOS. JNF, in a terse statement issued in Osogbo on Saturday by its chairman, Lanre Afolayanka,…
The alleged killers of Managing Director, Todays Prints Ltd, Olalekan Ogunranti, have been apprehended by men of the Nigeria Police Force. Late Ogunranti was abducted on May 16, 2016 by some unknown gunmen in Osun State. However, with the slow pace of the investigation, the Acting Inspector-General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, on assumption of office,…
The Oyo State Commissioner of Police, Leye Oyebade, has held a meeting with the leadership of the National Union of Road Transport Workers, NURTW, and that of the Road Transport Employers Association of Nigeria, RTEAN. The occasion took place on Tuesday at the Police Headquarters, Eleyele, Ibadan, the state capital. At the gathering, the police…
The Lagos State Police Command has commenced aggressive manhunt for suspected militants who invaded Igbolomu and Ishawo areas of Ikorodu last Friday and unleashed mayhem on residents. The gunmen, who were allegedly from the Niger Delta, were said to have come in through the waterways close to the communities and started shooting sporadically, a development…
A taxi driver based in the Ajegunle area of Lagos State, Iseuru Ekpe, has been dragged before an Apapa Chief Magistrates’ Court in Lagos for allegedly beating up a policeman. Ekpe was arraigned on Friday for an alleged unlawful assault. According to the prosecutor, Inspector Tony Elibeh, the accused committed the offence on June 13…
There was chaos in a part of Ogun State on Thursday, June 2, 2016, when a policeman allegedly shot dead a commercial motorcycle rider commonly called okada rider. Trouble reportedly brewed after the late rider refused to give bribe to the cop, who we gathered would also not let go. The incident, according to our…
Controversial daughter of former governor of old Oyo State, Kemi Olunloyo, has disclosed that manager of Nigerian singer, Skales, Osagie Osarenkhoe, is a fraudulent lady. Kemi disclosed that she once had a bad experience with the top female artiste manager in Nigeria. The controversial Kemi took to her social media page to expose her ordeal…
Former manager of Wizkid, Osagie Osarenkhoe, has been apprehended by men of the Nigeria Police Force. The top artiste manager in Nigeria, who presently works with Skales, a former label mate of Wizkid at EME Records, was accused of fraud. Osagie disclosed via her Twitter handle that she was arrested by security operatives based on…
Report just reaching us has it that men of the Nigeria Police have locked up national secretariat of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Abuja. It was gathered that the Wadata office of the party, which is presently battling with crisis that has torn it into shreds, was condoned off by stern-looking security operatives.…
An Ebute Metta Chief Magistrate Court has ordered Lekan Shonde to be remanded in prison. Lekan Shonde was accused of killing his late former banker wife, Ronke Shonde, at their home in the Egbeda area of Lagos State earlier in the month. On Friday, May 20, 2016, the police in Lagos arraigned the 51-year-old man…