An unidentified driver was confirmed dead on Tuesday following a fatal crash on the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway. PUNCH Online reported that the fatal crash, which occurred around 3:20 PM near the Forte Filling Station on the Sagamu stretch of the expressway, also left at least three others with varying degrees of injuries. According to the state police spokesperson, Omolola Odutola, the accident involved a granite-loaded truck with the license plate FKJ760XM and a Toyota with the registration number JJJ926YJ. She added that both vehicles were travelling towards Lagos from Ibadan when the Toyota car driver lost control and collided with the…
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Soldiers Rescue Abducted Ex-LG Chairman, Arrest Boko Haram Commanders, Others Credit: X|HQNigerianArmy In a series of operations, the Nigerian Army has rescued kidnap victims and apprehended suspected Boko Haram commanders and terrorist logistic suppliers, among others. In a statement shared on X.com on Tuesday, the NA revealed that soldiers rescued an abducted former LG chairman and arrested a notorious kidnapping kingpin in Egbe Community of Yagba Local Government Area in Kogi State. The statement partly read, “The suspect, Mohammed Bello, who belonged to a seven-man syndicate specialised in kidnapping unsuspecting citizens, has been on the security agencies’ wanted criminals’ watchlist.…
President Bola Tinubu’s allies are pressuring him to authorise a desperate strategy that could dramatically escalate the stakes of the raging nationwide protest against poverty and corruption, Peoples Gazette can report. Two independent sources have briefed The Gazette about a plot that one of them described as “too sinister” to be allowed to proceed without being exposed, hoping its disclosure would put its proponents on the defensive and force the president to end the plot in its tracks. “The discussion at the meeting was too dangerous for our country,” a source with information about what transpired at the parley said.…
The Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) has announced the death of a former chairman of its Ikeja branch, Adesina Ademola Ogunlana. In a notice published on Wednesday, the Ikeja NBA secretary, Issa Adedokun, said the activist died on Tuesday. “The executive committee regrets to announce the sudden passage of our beloved Leader, Adesina Ogunlana, Esq. (past chairman (2016-2018), who passed on yesterday, the 6th of AUGUST 2024. “We are deeply saddened by this transition but comforted by the fact that our dear Leader lived an exemplary life worthy of emulation by all. His contribution to our Branch in particular, the legal…
The Nigeria Hunters and Forest Security Service said it received 19 complaints in July. The commander of the Kano command, Abdullahi Al-ameen, said this in an interview on Wednesday in Kano. He said the service is trying its best to meet its mandate, including the prevention detection of crimes and illegal activities being perpetrated in the forests. “Of the 19 complainants, 17 have been treated and done with, while two are pending. Most of the cases were on animal theft, farm produce theft, kidnapping, phone theft, thuggery, rape, among others. “We will continue to secure and make our forests a…
Operatives attached to the Zone 7 Police Command Headquarters which supervises the Federal Capital Territory, have arrested some suspects involved in car snatching, armed robbery and murder. The operation, which followed an intelligence report, in conjunction with the Niger State Police Command recovered some stolen vehicles, firearms, and laptops, among others. This was disclosed in a statement by the zone’s Police Public Relations Officer, M.B Abdulkadir, at the Command Headquarters in Abuja, according to a tweet from the Nigeria Police Force’s X handle on Wednesday. Four suspects — Solomon Nuhu, 22; Faruk Umar, 17; Bolaji Yusuf, 34; and Lawal Yusuf,…
The Lagos State Police Command arraigned a 54-year-old man, Olajide Aro, on Tuesday, for allegedly assaulting an Eko Electricity Distribution company worker. The defendant was arraigned at the Chief Magistrate Court, Yaba, before Magistrate Patrick Nwaka and charged with four counts of assault, breach of peace, obstruction of legitimate duties, and causing physical injuries. The charges alleged that the defendant, on July 18, 2024, assaulted one Adeniyi Mathew, a staff member of the Eko Electricity Distribution Company, while he was trying to perform his legitimate duties. PUNCH Metro gathered that Olajide and others in Ogbe Close, Iwaya, Lagos, conspired to forcefully…
The Kwara State Government has placed the Healthcare on Outbreak Response Mode after confirmation of the death of a 70-year-old grandmother, her son and two other family members in the Eruda community, Ilorin in Ilorin West Local Government Area of the state after eating an Amala meal said to have been poisoned. The state Commissioner of Health, Dr Amina El-Imam, said the victims’ death was from the consumption of Amala believed to contain poison. El-Imam, at a press conference addressed in Ilorin, the state capital, on Tuesday, also disclosed that one death was recorded from gastroenteritis. According to her, the…
Justice T. N . Nzeukwu of the Imo State High Court has convicted and sentenced a pastor, Desmond Eke, to eight years imprisonment for raping his church member’s wife. Eke, the founder of Deliverance Ministry of the Good Shepherd, Umuehieta Avu, Owerri West Local Government Area of Imo State was found guilty of taking advantage of the woman who had vested so much trust in him. The convict was tried on three counts that bordered on raping the victim who is also a member of his church and administering a stupefying substance on his victim which made her dizzy and…
A soldier with the Nigerian Army, on Tuesday, shot dead a 16-year-old #EndBadGovernanceInNigeria protester in the Samaru community in Zaria, Kaduna State. The teenage protester was identified as Ismail Mohammed. The Director of Army Public Relations, Major General Onyeama Nwachukwu, confirmed the development in a statement on Tuesday titled “Unfortunate death of a protester by a soldier in Zaria.” Nwachukwu explained that the incident happened on Tuesday when troops of the Nigerian Army received a distress call to help disperse some hoodlums, who had gathered in Samaru burning tyres and attacking security personnel. Nwachukwu added that the mob attempted to…