The Police in Lagos have arrested 32-year-old man, Sunday Ukeme, accused of defiling his neighbour’s daughter in the Lekki area of the state. He blamed alcohol for his action. The suspect was said to have sexually abused a girl names withheld who was left in the care of his wife when the mother of the victim travelled for three weeks. Trouble started for the married man as soon as his wife Mary Sunday left for a vigil service in the church and he alledgely took advantage of the minor at Idaso Town, Ibeju Lekki at about 22:30 hours of 20th September,…
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After all back and forth and attempts to rubbish a trending report which claimed that the Chairman of Human and Environmental Development Agenda, HEDA, Olanrewaju Suraju was indicted in an alleged cyberbullying, the matter as it is might have finally shifted to the court. Against several refutal from HEDA’s management and promoters, the Ministry of Justice has according to a report sighted by CASEFILE has finally filed a charge against Olanrewaju Suraju. Baring any last minutes change of mind and position, Mr. Olarenwaju Suraju will have to appear in court to answer for criminal charges of cyberstalking against the former…
It is impossible that cannabis sativa be legalised in the country. Chairman/Chief Executive of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, Brig. Gen. Mohamed Buba Marwa (Retd) gave the submission at the 2021 Ulefunta annual public lecture organised by the Deji of Akure kingdom, the Ondo State capital, His Imperial Majesty, Oba Aladetoyinbo Ogunlade Aladelusi. Marwa informed that proponent cannot have their way under the prevailing security situation in Nigeria. At the event chaired by the former Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Chief Olu Falae, he further addressed the implication of legalising such drug. His view, “The proliferation…
Funke Busari Dissatisfied candidates from July 24 Lagos State local government elections can now appeal decisions on election petitions at the Election Appeal Tribunal. This was disclosed by Lagos Chief Judge, Justice Kareem Alogba during the inauguration of the newly Election Appeal tribunal on Friday. According to him, two tribunals would be sitting at Ikeja and Central Business District at Alausa, Ikeja. “Appeal has started coming in that is why we are setting up this tribunal.” Honourable Justice Morenike Olasunmbo Obadina will chair the tribunal. Other members are Honourable Justice Beatrice Adesuwa Oke-LawalHonourable Justice Olubunmi Olutoyin Fadipe, Honourable Justice Wasiu…
Funke Busari, Lagos The National Association of Judiciary Correspondents, NAJUC, Ikeja Branch has elected new executive officers who will drive the affairs of the association for the next two years. The elected new officers who were sworn-in on Friday at the association’s Press Centre within the premises of the Lagos High Court in Ikeja are Wahab Akinlade of Radio Nigeria as Chairman, Mojirola Eniola of News Agency of Nigeria, NAN, as Vice-Chairman and Yetunde Ojo of the Guardian newspaper as General Secretary. Other elected officers are Stephen Aya of ThisDay as the Treasurer and Ayo Olalere of News Xpress as…
Royal Navy patrol ship HMS Trent is setting sail to the waters of the Gulf of Guinea as she heads for security patrols and a mission to support allies in West Africa. The River-class patrol ship will visit Nigeria, Ghana, Senegal, Gambia and Cape Verde, and will take part in French-led multinational training exercises that will bring together international partners in the region, known as Exercise Grand African Nemo.HMS Trent, which is the first Royal Navy vessel to operate in the region for three years, will conduct maritime security patrols as well as support partner navies by helping them to…
Facebook and the two other social apps, WhatsApp and Instagram owned by Facebook, are back since they crashed on Monday by 4:25pm. The social networking sites founder, Mark Zuckerberg on his page, apologised for the downtime experienced by users of the services. He wrote on his Facebook page: “Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and Messenger are coming back online now. Sorry for the disruption today — I know how much you rely on our services to stay connected with the people you care about.”
Major social media services including Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp were hit by a massive outage on Monday, tracking sites showed, impacting potentially tens of millions of users. Outage tracker Downdetector was showing outages in heavily populated areas like Washington and Paris, with problems being reported from around 1545 GMT. Users trying to access Facebook in affected areas were greeted with the message. Responding, the microblogging site confirmed the incident “Something went wrong. We’re working on it and we’ll get it fixed as soon as we can.”
The Chairman of Nigerian Bar Association Section on Public Interest and Development Law, NBA-SPIDEL, Dr. Monday Ubani has drawn the attention of President Muhammadu Buhari to the abandoned Umuahia(Ikwuano)/Ikot-Ekpene road project. In a letter dated October 1, 2021, and addressed to the president, Ubani said that the contractors of the project, Messrs Hartland Nigeria Limited/Raycon Company Nigeria Ltd, which were awarded in 2019 with a 48-month completion target, have since abandoned the project over alleged non-release of funds by the federal government. A copy of the letter was also forwarded to Abia State Governor, Okezie Ikpeazu, Minister of Works and…
Two suspected kidnappers have been arrested by the Police in Ogun State while trying to collect ransom money on a seven-year-old boy. DSP. Abimbola Oyeyemi, the Spokesperson of the Command disclosed on Monday that men from the State Police Command arrested the 42 years old Muhammed Abubakar, and 18 years old Clinton Niche following a report lodged at Agbara Area command. The Police Public Relations Officer said the report was lodged by Stephen Ajibili who claimed to be the father to the seven-year-old son, Daniel Ajibili, said to be abducted by unknown persons while he was sent on an errand…