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Lagos, Abuja record highest crime rates in 2016

The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said that the FCT and Lagos State reported a total of 58,566 crime cases in 2016. The NBS stated this in a report published on its website on Tuesday. According...

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Man escapes lynching after foiled murder of boutique owner

But for the timely intervention of the police, an angry mob at the Jakande area of Lagos State would have carried out jungle justice on a hired assailant, who was allegedly sent to kill a boutique...

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Police to promote officers killed in Imo bank robbery

The Imo State Commissioner of Police, Mr. Chris Ezike, yesterday disclosed that the police would confer posthumous promotion on two officers killed during a bank robbery in Owerri, the state capital....

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Police nab man in possession of human skull

Lucien Tosume The Lagos State Police Command has arrested a 45-year-old-man, Lucien Tosume, suspected to be a ritualist, for possessing a human skull.Tosume was arrested last week following an...

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ICAN donates medical equipment to Lagos Island Maternity Hospital

Immediate past chairman, Lagos chapter of ICAN, Joshua Ohioma (left); Chief Medical Director, Lagos Island Maternity, Dr. Imosemi Donald; Head, Administration Lagos Island Maternity, Elizabeth...

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Court sentences fake surety to 22 years imprisonment

Justice Mohammed Idris of the Federal High Court, Lagos has sentenced Ibikunle John Olusakin, to 22 years imprisonment for forgery and standing as fake surety for one Emmanuel Nweke. He gave the...

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Heavy rain destroys bridge, cuts off Local Councils in Adamawa

The collapsed bridge Heavy rains on Tuesday led to the collapse of the Dilichim bridge, cutting off communities in Michika and Madagali local councils from the rest of Adamawa State.The bridge,...

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Police ban rally, procession, demonstration in Kogi

Commissioner of Police (CP) Kogi State, Wilson Inalegwu The police command in Kogi on Wednesday announced an indefinite ban on rally, public procession and demonstration in all parts of the state. The...

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Two men arrested for homosexuality in Lagos

Two men — Promise Oluwabunkenoye and Kehinde Abiola — on Wednesday appeared before a Surulere Chief Magistrates’ Court in Lagos charged with anal sex. The accused — ‎Oluwabunkenoye, 24, and Abiola, 29...

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Two killed in Lagos cult clash

Two persons were killed yesterday in a cult clash at Olayiwola area of Oworonshoki, Lagos State. This happened just as police arrested two robbery suspects who disguised as commercial bus operators at...

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LUTH, Airtel fete volunteers on World Blood Donor Day

The World Health Organization has recommended a minimum of 1% of a country’s population to participate in blood donations. However, In Nigeria, we are not able to even meet this minimum requirement....

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Court to rule on Obanikoro, Coca-Cola N96.8 million judgment debt July 11

Musiliu Obanikoro A Lagos High Court sitting in Ikeja has fixed July 11, 2017 for ruling in a motion filed by Nigerian Bottling Ltd seeking to set aside a garnishee order granted against five banks in...

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Evans wails in police cell, makes more revelations

Evans Arrested kidnap kingpin, Chukwudemeje George Onwuamadike, also known as Evans has been sobbing over his detention with ‘common poor criminals’, in police cell, The Guardian investigation has...

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Unknown assailants kill ex-naval officer, Famuyiwa

Famuyiwa An ex-naval officer and Chief Executive Officer of MAF 44 Gardens and Event centre, Arigbajo, Ogun State, Chief Moses Akanni Famuyiwa, popularly called MAF 44, was yesterday murdered in cold...

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Couple seeks help to discharge triplets from Lagos hospital

Esther and the triplet For the Jegede family, the cries of their triplets in the prenatal ward of Ayoradex Hospital, Mafoluku, Oshodi, Lagos State, is a mixed bag of joy and anxiety. Joy for the...

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Lagos demolishes shanties along Ijora railway line

Their woes were compounded by the downpour at the time the demolition started. The displaced residents could only move their personal belongings into the rain, with a few having trampoline to cover...

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Controversy trails Florence Omagbemi son’s death in Warri

Super Falcons’ Coach, Florence Omagbemi Florence Omagbemi on Wednesday lost her 15-year-old son, Samson Atamako, a JSS 3 student of Challenge International School, Kolokolo, in Warri, Delta State, to...

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My wife beats me at will, separate us, man tells court

Photo used only for illustrative purpose. PHOTO: YNaija A retiree, Taofeek Giwa, on Friday prayed an Idi-Ogungun Customary Court, Agodi-Ibadan, to dissolve the seven-year-old marriage with Abiodun...

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Prisoner cries, gets freedom at Keffi Prison

prison Ikechukwu Emmanuel , an inmate of Keffi Medium Security Prisons in Keffi in Nasarawa State, cried himself to freedom on Friday through the help of Prisons Officers Wives Association (PROWA)....

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Lagos arraigns suspected notorious land grabbing kingpin

A day after the Lagos State Government arrested a suspected notorious land grabber, Chief Kamorudeen Lamina, he has been arraigned before a Special Offences Court sitting in Oshodi over alleged...

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