Funke Busari, Lagos News reaching CASEFILE says armed bandits who kidnapped students of Greenfield University, have shot dead three of the abducted students. Their remains were found on Friday in Kwanan Bature village, a location close to the university and have been evacuated to a mortuary by the Commissioner, Internal Security and Home Affairs, and Force Commander, Operation Thunder Strike, Lt.Col. MH Abdullahi. The armed bandits on Tuesday night had kidnapped an unspecified number of students at the institution located at Kasarami village off Kaduna-Abuja Road in Chikun LGA. Meanwhile, the Kaduna State Governor, Governor Nasir El-Rufai has condemned the…
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Funke Busari, Lagos Discourse on Protection of Civilians, PoC, and Civilian Harm Mitigation, CHM, again took the centre stage of the advocacy for protocol by Civil Society Legislative Advocacy Centre, CISLAC, on Thursday. The workshop, a sequel advocacy engagement to an earlier call for policy framework, supported by Open Society Initiative for West Africa, OSIWA, deliberated on life-saving measures that the media, security managers and policy makers could employ to push for protection of civilians via a PoC legislation for the country, in order to arrest the realities of insecurity in Nigeria which had witnessed casualties from both sides of…
Funke Busari, Lagos A popular Nollywood actor in the Yoruba movie industry Olarenwaju James, a.k.a Baba Ijesha, 48 years old is in police custody. He is being detained following an allegation of defilement of a-14 year-old girl. The Police on Thursday confirmed the arrest of the actor through the Police Spokesperson, CSP. Muyiwa Adejobi. “The case of defilement was reported on 19th April, 2021, by a lady, Princess Adekola Adenauer, at Sabo Police Station and transferred to the Gender Unit of the State CID, Panti, Yaba Lagos for proper investigation, he said. According to the Police Spokesperson preliminary findings revealed…
Funke Busari, Lagos It was a case of another brazen attack on police officer as shown in a viral video, but this time the Lagos Police Command has vowed a decisive action against the perpetrators. A statement signed by the Command Spokesperson, Muyiwa Adejobi gave an account of what really happenedin his statement. He said it was a case of hit-and-run involving a truck and a Camry car. In the process a motorcycle operator, Ashiru Sassy was injured. But while the driver of the Camry waited, the truck driver took to his heels necessitating a chase by a traffic officer, ASP…
Funke Busari, Lagos A notorious major supplier of illicit drugs in Abia State, Chibuike Apolos has been arrested during an early morning raid, a statement by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, Director, Media & Advocacy, Femi Babafemi disclosed on Wednesday, 21st April, 2021. He was arrested at his hideout at Mbausi in Isialangwa North area of the state, Apolos has been on the wanted list of the Abia State Command of the NDLEA since February following the arrest of one Chima Ukeleonu, the suspect behind the video that went viral in January 2021, showing a young man hawking illicit…
Funke Busari, Lagos Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu on Tuesday said that the state has substantially complied with the provisions of the 1999 Constitution, as amended, on the financial autonomy and independence of the judiciary. The Governor made this declaration during a meeting held at the Government House, Marina with members of the Nigerian Bar Association from four out of the five judicial divisions in Lagos State including Epe, Lagos, Ikorodu and Badagry led by their chairmen. Sources close to the meeting said the governor rehashed what the Chief Judge of the state, Justice Kazeem Alogba said during a meeting…
Funke Busari, Lagos The Lagos State Environmental Sanitation Enforcement Agency (Taskforce) led by CSP. Shola Jejeloye clamped down on 81 motorcycles for plying restricted routes and endangering the lives of other road users in the state on Tuesday. According to the Chairman of the Agency, the seizure was in line with enforcement of the Lagos State Traffic Law and to halt the flagrant abuse of traffic laws by the motorcyclists. He noted that Government is concerned about the recklessness of motorcyclists on restricted routes, and therefore becomes necessary to help the motorcyclists by saving their own lives and that of…
Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, have arrested a 300-level university student, Rhoda Agboje and her boyfriend, Ifeanyi Nwankwo, both of who specialise in producing and selling drug cookies to school children and other unsuspecting members of the public in Abuja. Their lid was blown open following the arrest of Rhoda Agboje with four pieces of the drug cookies on Sunday. She was arrested at the NNPC Cooperative Estate, opposite Gaduwa Estate in Abuja based on a complaint that she gave an unsuspecting young girl the cookies to eat. After eating the drug cookies, the girl lost…
Chief of the Naval Staff, Vice Admiral Awwal Gambo, on Monday, flagged off a two-day retreat on ‘Effective Management for Nigerian Navy Operational Efficiency.’ Vice Admiral Gambo at the opening ceremony of the retreat, said that the retreat was auspicious as it would focus the Navy on the role of decision making, feedback mechanism and finance in engendering an effective management across all levels of command in the Nigerian Navy. According to the CNS, the thrust of the retreat was to remind the participants on the critical role played by campaign planning in developing the ability of commanders to…
In the aftermath of the news that YouTube has suspended TB Joshua’s popular channel Emmanuel TV, the cleric has reacted to the development, describing it as a “blessing” and calling on his followers to “pray for YouTube”. “That is the work of God! It is like honey; wherever it drops, insects seek and find it,” Joshua stated during a ‘Partnership Meeting’ held on Friday 19th 2021. “What happened is a blessing. I want you to help me pray for YouTube. Don’t see them the other way around; see them as friends,” he added, stressing that many discovered his ministry through…