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The General Officer Commanding 81 Division Nigerian Army, Major General Enobong Okon Udoh on Monday 9 April 2018, paraded some impostors and criminals arrested within his Area of Responsibility in Lagos and Ogun states recently. They were paraded at the Headquarters 81 Division. Parading the impostors and criminals on behalf of the General Officer Commanding was Brigadier General Hamisu Hassan …

A woman, Benson Rosemary, has been arraigned before an Ikeja Magistrates’ Court for allegedly robbing one Dr. Adekunle Ayodeji Desalu of his£16,750 (N8.5million) in the Ajah area of Lagos State. The 26-year-old suspect was said to have robbed the medical doctor at his house at No 2, Taiwo Ishola Street, Lekki Phase 1 at about 2:20pm on February 18. Insp. …

A young man was dealt with after a failed rape attempt in Lagos state. According to reports, the guy who happens to be the meat delivery man tried to rape an eleven year old girl when he thought no one was at home. The little girl’s screams alerted her uncle who rushed to behold a shocking sight as the suspect …

A 47-year-old man, Abimbola Babatunde, has been arraigned before an Ogba Magistrate’s Court for allegedly robbing the Lagos State Government of N8.9million. The defendant, a member of the Lagos State Ministry of Agriculture cooperative society, Alausa Ikeja, was said to have stolen the money which belonged to the society. The prosecutor, Insp. Raphael Donny, said the defendant committed the offence …

 A 23-year-old student, Arafat Ayoola, on Wednesday appeared before an Ikeja Magistrates’ Court in Lagos, charged with snatching two phones worth N200,000 in the traffic. Ayoola, whose address was not provided, is facing charges of conspiracy and stealing.  

Two people have been confirmed dead after a one-storey building suffered a partial collapse at the backside in Lagos. Adesina Tiamiyu, general manager of the Lagos State Emergency Management Agency, LASEMA, said in a statement on Saturday in Lagos, that the agency received a distress call on Saturday, March 31, 2018, at about 10.48 a.m. Tiamiyu said that the distress call …

Two male students of a private secondary school were picked up dead in the flood after a heavy rain in Alagbado area of Lagos on Thursday, witnesses confirmed. The witnesses said the boys were found floating on water at Casso Bus Stop on Lagos/Abeokuta Expressway by shop owners and people waiting to board vehicles to their destinations. Some commercial motorcycle …

The Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, and the national leader of the All Progressives Congress, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, have said they will continue to talk about the corruption perpetrated under the President Goodluck Jonathan’s administration.

An angry grand mother who caught her grandson, 24-year old Aminu Imran  stealing his friend’s phone has handed him over to the police for prosecution in Lagos. The incident happened at Igbojuwo Street in Itire area of Lagos where they resided. It was reported that Imran was charged before Isolo Magistrates court and sentenced to three months imprisonment without an …

Many residents of Lagos are groaning as a result of the vehicular restriction on major roads in the state, compounding the traffic gridlock in the metropolitan city. The roads were blocked because of President Muhammadu Buhari’s two-day visit to the state. As part of measures to control the traffic situation, the Lagos state government declared Thursday a work-free day. It also …