Funke Busari, Lagos Four boys are now in police custody over the gang rape of a-15-year-old girl in the Ejigbo area of Lagos State. The suspects are all in their teens. According to a statement by the Lagos State Police Command Spokesperson, CSP Olumuyiwa Adejobi, the suspects are; Jimoh Kamoru,16, Lukman Basit,16, Aleshinloye Sunday,16 and Ifeoluwa Alabi, 16. They were picked up by police operatives on 16th February, 2021, at about 10 p.m. The victim’s mother, Tawa Abbey, who resides at 200, Mafo Bus Stop, Idimu Road, Ejigbo, reported the incident to the Divisional Police Officer, Ejigbo Division. She narrated…
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The Court of Appeal, Lagos, has dismissed the case filed by the Eko Club Board of Trustees and Guardian Council of Eko Club against developmental economist Chief Babatunde Fanimokun to contest as president for a third term. Fanimokun was the president of Eko Club from February 2017 to February 2019. While he attempted to vie for a third term, Eko Club and the Guardian Council refuted his proposal. Meanwhile, Eko Club and Guardian Council of the club brought a candidate, Dr. Shamsideen Ade Dosumu as their preferred choice. Last March, Fanimokun went to court to challenge their action. Judgement favoured…
Funke Busari, Lagos The Nigeria Navy, NN, has refuted the rumours that its officers and ratings aid and abet crude oil theft and invasion of herders. This position was contained in a statement by naval image-maker, Commodore Suleman Dahun. Navy insisted that it was highly committed to zero tolerance to economic sabotage and indiscipline among officers and rank-and-file in their bid to secure Nigeria’s ocean. According to Commodore Dahun, “The attention of the Nigerian Navy has been drawn to a news report in some newspapers captioned ‘How Nigerian Navy Aids Crude Oil Theft, Herders’ Invasion’. While the report is largely…
Funke Busari A human rights lawyer, Mr. Femi Falana is blaming the State and its security agency for “serial violations of the constitutional provisions of the Federal Republic of Nigeria” with reference to the botched EndSARS/#OccupyLekkiToll Gate protest in Lagos last Saturday. Falana on Thursday further cited other violations of the human rights laws discountenance by the state and its agency. This insight was given at a live Facebook discussion steered by Ajibola Hamzat of the International Center For Investigative Journalism, ICIR, against the background of the harassment of protesters of the botched EndSARS/#OccupyLekkiToll Gate protest. Falana explained that rather…
Funke Busari, Lagos Lagos State Deputy Police Public Relations Officer, DPRO, Matilda Umiah Ngbaronye has been decorated with her new rank of Superintendent of Police, SP. Matilda Umiah Ngbaronye was decorated on Wednesday with the rank of SP by Commissioner of Police in charge of Lagos Command, CP Hakeem Odumosu at the command headquarters in GRA, Ikeja. Ngbaronye is widely described as a quintessential cop with captivating mien was enlisted into the Nigeria Police Force on 19th April 2010. She has served in various capacities in Lagos State Police Command. Before her appointment as the DPPRO, she was the Crime…
It is a case of love turned sour for the family of David Idibie of Joado Street, Oke Ira Nla, Ajah Area of Lagos State as he has been arrested in connection with the murder of his 42 years old wife, one Juliana Idibie, on February 16, 2021 at about 10pm. Preliminary report has it that the deceased had engaged the suspect in a hot argument on certain matrimonial issues and in the process, she slumped and sustained severe head injury. While lying in her pool of blood, the angry husband refused to rescue her until she gave up the…
Funke Busari President Muhammadu Buhari has requested lawmakers at the Upper Chamber, the Senate to confirm Abdulrasheed Bawa as the substantive Chairman of Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC. This impliies that the embattled and suspended former acting chairman of EFCC, Ibrahim Magu, is effectively disengaged from the Commission. This development was communicated on Tuesday in a statement by Femi Adeaina, that Bawa, 40, is a thorough-bred and EFCC-trained investigator. Read the full statement below President Muhammadu Buhari has asked the Senate to confirm Abdulrasheed Bawa as substantive Chairman of the EFCC. In a letter to President of the Senate,…
Funke Busari The World Trade Organisation, WTO, has finally settled for a new Director-General, she is Nigeria’s former Minister of Finance Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala. She emerged as the Head of the WTO following the withdrawal of the South Korean candidate from the race and subsequent confirmation by the organisation on Monday. Ngozi is the first woman and the first African to lead the international trade body. The former United States of American President, Donald Trump had earlier kicked against her candidacy when he threw his support behind the South Korean candidate. She will resume office come March 1st, 2021.
A dismissed officer of the defunct Special Anti-Robbery Squad, SARS, attached to the Edo State Police Command, Joseph Omotosho has been convicted for the extra-judicial killing of Benson Obodeh in 2015. Delivering the judgement, Justice Ohimai Ovbiagele described testimonies provided by the plaintiff as firm and almost unchallenged.P “Therefore, the judgement was based on absolute fact. which the court absorbed as presented by the prosecuting counsel and all witnesses that appeared before the court.” The Edo State High Court in Benin, found the former Constable Omotosho and four others guilty. They were accused of conspiracy in the extrajudicial killing of a…
Funke Busari, Lagos Suspected members of the Oodua People’s Congress, OPC, on Saturday allegedly beat one Tochukwu Chidi to death in Bariga area of Lagos, but they are now in Police detention. The death of 35 years old Tochukwu has become a subject of investigation for the State Criminal Investigation Department, Panti, Yaba, Lagos following the order of the Commissioner of Police, Lagos State, CP Hakeem Odumosu. The Police operatives attached to Bariga Division of the Lagos State Police Command on Sunday said four suspects; Sunday Onilede, Azan Razak, Abdullahi Ibrahim, and Fatai Taiwo, who are members of the OPC were responsible…