Mustafa Adebayo Balogun was born 25 August 1947 in Ila Orangun, Osun State. The former Police officer was widely known as Kumawu, and was appointed Inspector General of the Nigerian Police in March 2002. He was the Inspector General of Police, IGP, between 2002 and 2005, before he was forced into submitting his letter of resignation to former President Olusegun Obasanjo because of widespread allegations of corruption against him. Prior to that time, Balogun was police Commissioner in Delta, Rivers and Abia States, respectively. He was also an Assistant Inspector General of Police, AIG, in charge of Zone 1 Kano.…
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A former Inspector General of Police, Mustafa Adebayo Balogun, also known as Tafa Balogun is dead. Report reaching CASEFILE says the former Police boss died at Reddington Hospital in Lagos. Mr. Balogun was the Inspector General of Police during the administration of former President Olusegun Obasanjo. He had issue with the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission while Nuhu Ribadu was in charge. The manner of his arrest drew comment from people as he was handcuffed and embarrassed by the Operatives. Shortly after his court trial, he went underground and nothing much was heard about him till his demise. Details of his…
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA has convicted 2,385 drug offenders since January 2022, even as it has set ablaze heaps of the over 560,068.31414 kilograms of assorted illicit drugs on Thursday. Chief Executive Officer of the Agency, Retd Gen Mohamed Buba Marwa disclosed that the illicit drugs destroyed is the largest in the 32-year history of the anti-narcotic agency. Marwa said the exercise is a strong message to drug barons and cartels that they’ll continue to lose their huge investments in the criminal trade if they fail to back out and look for other legitimate businesses. The agency’s…
There is renewed efforts to rid Lagos of commercial motorcycles especially in the areas where there operations are banned. To this end, the Lagos State Taskforce has carried out numerous raids which has spanned up to a week in various parts of the State in order to enforce and maintain the ban on the activities of commercial motorcycles plying major highways across the State. The directive affects six Local Governments Areas and nine Local Council Development Areas. Read Also: A statement signed, Gbadeyan Abdulraheem the Director, Press & Public Affairs said the enforcement exercises which were spear headed by the Chairman…
There was a reported attempted escape in Ibom State High court as a court sentenced Uduak Akpan convicted for the murder of a female job seeker, Iniobong Umoren. Report says it took the intervention of the Police to foil the move when Akpan attempted to escape shortly after the sentence was announced by the trial judge, Justice Bassey Nkanang. The convict was sentenced to death by hanging and life imprisonment in the two charge of murder and rape preferred against him. But his father, Frank Akpan and sister, Anwan Bassey were freed as the court discharged them of the charge of…
By Adewale Busari Doctor Opoola, may God bless him wherever he is now, he used to work with the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital, LASUTH, I met him about 18 years ago, when someone very dear to me was on admission. I remember how we (families of patients) used to run after him to attend to our patients. On this particular day, I saw Dr. Opoola at a ward close to the LASUTH Gate, as usual with people milling around him for one medical assistance or the other. He was very attentive and attended to our needs while standing, sweating…
But for a divine intervention and swift response of the Police, a grandmother and her children would have been lynched to death in Ebute-Ero of Lagos by a mob who mistook them for kidnappers. The mob was suspicious of the occupants of the commercial bus when they saw 12 children whose ages ranges from seven months to 12 years old in the bus. They descended on them, beat them black and blue and set the bus in fire. It took the intervention of the Rapid Response Squad, RRS, patrol teams and Ebute-Ero Police Division to save them. Preliminary investigation shows…
The International Press Centre, IPC, Lagos-Nigeria is miffed that the National Broadcasting Commission, NBC, has slammed a hefty fine of N5m (Five Million Naira) on Trust TV over the broadcast of a documentary on the state of insecurity in the country titled ‘Nigeria’s Banditry: The Inside Story.’ The imposition of the arbitrary fine was contained in an August 3, 2022 letter to the Chief Executive Officer of Trust TV Network Limited by the Director General of NBC, Balarabe Shehu Ilelah. Following the threat by the Information Minister, Mr. Lai Mohammed, that the TV station and BBC would be sanctioned for…
The controversial letter to SAIPEM Contracting Nigeria Limited as claimed its first casualty as the lawyer at the center of it all, Adekunbi Ogunde has taken a leave from legal practice. Until she made this decision, Kunbi is a partner in the Chamber of Wole Olanipekun, SAN, Chief Olanipekun is the Chairman of the Body of Benchers, a position that was threatened by the said letter as the NBA under Olumide Akpata insisted that Olanipekun must recuse himself for a thorough probe of the letter. This has however divided lawyers, sadly, along ethnic lines. In her public message, Ogunde stated she…
The security situation in Lagos State is getting the attention of a lawyer and activist, Dr. Yemi Omodele and he is appealing to the State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu to do the needful before it is too late. He is particularly worried about the extortion by the Security Operatives including but not limited to Police. Dr. Omodele specifically pointed out areas where the criminals and Police have made their points to extort and rob helpless residents and want the Governor to take a proactive step. Other area he mentioned is the under-aged beggars turning the ones beautiful areas in Lagos to beggars’…