The Lagos State Police Command has detained one of its officers, an Assistant Superintendent of Police, simply identified as Lanre, following allegation of defilement by a 17-year-old girl. The Commissioner of Police, Lagos State Command, CP Adegoke Fayoade, has ordered a comprehensive investigation, a statement by SP Benjamin Hundeyin, the Police Public Relations Officer for the Lagos State Command in Ikeja, communicated on Sunday. The Command has assured the public that there will be no cover-up, and the officer will face the full weight of police regulations and the law if found guilty.
Author: Funke Busari
The Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, inaugurated the reintroduction of the monthly environmental sanitation exercise campaign in the State on Sunday. The monthly environmental sanitation was a culture in Lagos State some years ago promote a clean and healthy environment, encourage community participation in waste management, and reduce the risk of disease outbreaks. Speaking at the occasion held at Campus Square, Lagos Island, Sanwo-Olu called for the cooperation of all residents and stakeholders in making the exercise a success. After a court judgement in 2016 declared the monthly environmental sanitation exercise unconstitutional, the Lagos State Government abolished the practice. This…
Justice Ganiu Aliu Safari of a Lagos High Court sitting in Badore, Ajah has granted an injunction restraining the execution of the judgement on the large expanse of land in the Eyin-Osa, Epe community in the Free Trade Zone in Lagos State. The presiding judge also ordered the respondents, who are the judgement creditor, the Ottun Family and the Lagos State Government “to maintain status quo, pending the determination of the suit at the Court of Appeal. Justice Aliu Safari had earlier in 2023 in a matter with the Suit No. LD/8916/2014 between Moshood Olushola Ottun & 1 other and the Governor of…
The Federal High Court sitting in Lagos, in a landmark judgement, has ordered Alhaji Lai Mohammed, former Minister of Information and Culture and the Ministry of Information to disclose the details of the agreement between the Federal Government and X, formerly Twitter, to assess whether the agreement complies with the exercise of Nigerians’ human rights online. The judgement was delivered in May 2024 by Hon. Justice Nnamdi Okwy Dimgba following a Freedom of Information suit number: FHC/L/CS/238/2022, brought by the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project, SERAP. The certified true copy of the judgement was obtained last Friday. In his judgement,…
An official of Zenith Bank who is an Assistant Manager, Ms. Ifeoma Ogbonnaya at the continuation of trial of former Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria, Godwin Emefiele, told the trial judge that the defendant and his wife, Margaret were not signatories to companies accounts allegedly owned by the couple. She said this before Justice Rahman Oshodi of the Special Offences Court, Ikeja, on Wednesday during cross examination by the Defence Counsel to the first defendant, Mr. Olalekan Ojo, SAN, Emefiele is standing trial over abuse of office, alleged $4.5 billion and N2.8 billion fraud while in office alongside Henry…
Zenith Bank official has narrated to Justice Rahman Oshodi of the Special Offences Court, Ikeja how the wife of the embattled former Governor of Central Bank, CBN, Godwin Emefiele assisted him in laundering huge amounts of money. A fifth prosecution witness, an Assistant Manager, Ms. Ifeoma Ogbonnaya with Zenith Bank Plc., disclosed this at the continuation of trial on Tuesday. Emefiele is standing trial over abuse of office, alleged $4.5 billion and N2.8 billion fraud while in office alongside Henry Omoile. She was led in evidence by the the prosecution counsel to Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Rotimi Oyedepo, SAN. The…
It was a foiled kidnap attempt in Lagos as members of the tactical team of the Lagos State Police Command killed nine suspected kidnappers. Report says the suspects now deceased had planned to kidnap their supposedly wealthy victims, but a swift response from the Police who laid ambush for them turned the plan to a nightmare for the gang. Police vs kidnappers This was made public by an elated Lagos Commissioner of Police, CP Adegoke Fayoade speaking through the Police Public Relations Officer, SP. Benjamin Hundeyin. Making known the breakthroughs at a press briefing at the State Headquarters, Ikeja on Friday, Hundeyin…
A Lagos State High court in Ikeja has convicted and sentenced a 40-year-old commercial bus driver, Elijah Shokoya, to 12 years imprisonment for killing an officer of the Lagos State Traffic Management Agency, LASTMA. Delivering the judgement on Thursday, Justice Oyindamola Ogala after the prosecution by the Lagos State Government. The trial judge while delivering the judgement held that the prosecutor has proven beyond reasonable doubt the one-count charge of the manslaughter of the LASTMA officer, Olawale Akinmade, who died on Wednesday, January 27, 2012. According to Justice Ogala, “The prosecution has established beyond reasonable doubt that the deceased died, that…
The Supreme Court of Nigeria has struck out an appeal filed by Micheal Onakoya against the decision of the Lagos Division of the Court of Appeal which affirmed the judgement of the lower court that dethroned him as king and Orijeru of Igbooye land, Epe. In a judgement delivered on April 29, 2024 in suit SC//CV//969/2024 by their Lordships, Justice Adamu Jauro, Justice Chidiebere Nwaoma, Justice Obande Festus Ogbuinya, Justice Stephen Jonah Adah and Justice Ohammed Baba Idri of the apex court held that the appeal was filed out of time. The ruling of the Supreme Court was read by…
A staff of the Economic and Finance Crimes Commission, EFCC, in the Land and Property Fraud Unit, Lagos, Idi Musa on Monday gave evidence in court on how embattled suspected internet fraudster, Ismaila Mustapha, alias Mompha, and Ismalob Global Investment Limited, his company were linked to Advance Fee fraud and other fraud related offences. The defendant and his company, Ismalob Global Investment Limited are facing an eight-count charge of conspiracy to launder funds obtained through unlawful activity, retention of proceeds of criminal conduct, laundering of funds obtained through unlawful activity, failure to disclose assets and property, possession of documents containing…