The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) operatives have seized 2,750,000 tablets of tramadol 225mg weighing 1,650 kilogrammes worth N1, 375,000,000 at the Apapa seaport in Lagos. According to Punch Newspapers, the consignment, packed in 55 cartons of tapentadol and carisoprodol types of tramadol, was seized during the examination of a container on Saturday, July 30, following credible intelligence. This follows similar efforts by anti-narcotic officers at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Ikeja, that disrupted attempts by drug traffickers to export a variety of psychoactive substances to London, United Kingdom, and Dubai, United Arab Emirates, through the Lagos airport in the previous week, leading…
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The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) announced on Monday, August 1 that a father of 30 children was killed when a tipper struck his motorcycle in Kogi state. Corps Commander Stephen Dawulung, Kogi FRSC Sector Commander, made this known in Lokoja, according to Peoples Gazette. “The man identified as Abdulsalam Ibrahim, a 60-year old commercial motorcyclist and his passenger were killed by the tipper truck at Ganaja Junction in Lokoja,” Dawulung said adding that the incident was tragic and very unfortunate. He regretted that the accident cut short the life of a father of 30 children. “The accident was a case of…
Six persons, including two expatriates and two police inspectors were killed by gunmen, on Friday, August 5, in an attack launched against their convoy in Kogi state. Two drivers of the expatriates, who were working with West Africa Ceramics Company (WACC), Ajaokuta region of Kogi state, were also killed. SP William Ovye-Aya, the Kogi state police command, while confirming the attack on Saturday, August 6, in a statement, said, that six victims including two expatriates, two company drivers, and two police inspectors died in the exchange of fire with the gunmen along Lokoja-Ajaokuta road around 8 pm on Friday. According…
The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) has presented a sum of N2.8 million to the family of late Inspector of Corps Ilyasu Abraham, who was killed during the kuje prison attack. This was contained in a statement by NSCDC Spokesman, Deputy Commandant of Corps, Olusola Odumosu, on Thursday, August 4, in Abuja, The Guardian reports. Inspector Abraham was killed on July 5, at Kuje Medium Custodial Center when bandits invaded the facility. Odumosu said that NSCDC Commandant General (CG), Ahmed Audi presented a cheque of N2.5 million and cash worth N300,000 to the slain personnel’s wife and daughter. In addition to the presented sum,…
The Ojo Military Cantonment soldiers beat a police officer in Lagos, identified as Inspector Monday Orube, to death on Wednesday, August 3, after an argument over rights of way. The soldiers, who were reportedly over thirty in number, were said to have taken two traffic warden policemen hostage and taken them to their barracks, with the third officer escaping kidnapping. According to a source, the three police officers who were on duty at the time of the incident blocked the lane through which the Soldiers were traveling in a Coastal bus to let other drivers pass without realizing that the bus was…
Gunmen have kidnapped Mikaila Bello, the Oniku of Iku in Ikare Akoko area of Ondo State on Thursday evening, August 4. The traditional ruler was abducted while travelling back to the town from Akure, the state capital, according to Peoples Gazette. The gunmen also kidnapped four subjects travelling with the Ikare Akoko ruler. According to a hunter, the gunmen ambushed the ruler and the other victims along Ago Panu on the Owo-Ikare road. “The driver of the vehicle was stabbed by the gunmen, but we were able to rescue him alone and rushed him to the hospital,” said the hunter, who also…
An Ikeja Special Offences Court on Tuesday, August 9, sentenced a pastor identified as Erinmole Adetokunbo and one Adedoyin Oyekanmi to death for killing a seven-year-old boy for ritual purposes. The presiding judge, Justice Oluwatoyin Taiwo sentenced the duo who changed their pleas from not guilty to guilty on Monday, August 8, according to The Vanguard. They convicts were charged with conspiracy to commit murder and murder. According to Lagos State government, the convicts committed the offences on June 7, 2017, at No. 6, Oke Oniburokun St., Odokekere, Ikorodu, Lagos. The government said that the duo cut off the child’s head and buried it…
The Nigerian Air Force (NAF) announced on Sunday, August 7, that the leader of a terrorist group in Kastina, identified as Abdulkarim Lawal and 27 other terrorists were killed in airstrike operations. NAF said in a statement that Lawal was part of the gunmen who attacked Aminu Umar, a police area commander, earlier in July, The Cable reports. Following a recent meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari to discuss a new security policy, the air force stated that the operation was a part of measures to increase security in the nation. “After days of careful planning and coordination, the Air Component of Operation…
The Air Task Force (ATF) Operation Hadin Kai troops have killed another notorious commander of Boko Haram identified as Alhaji Modu also known as Bem Bem, and 27 terrorists in Borno State. The notorious commander and his fighters were killed on Wednesday, August 3, by military airstrikes around the Mandara mountains in the Gwoza Local Government Area of Borno state, according to Daily Post. Sources within the military high command confirmed that the operation followed credible intelligence reports indicating that the Islamic State of West Africa Province (ISWAP) fighters were converging in large numbers with the intention to conduct attacks. Alhaji…
A 60-year-old man identified as Malam Bala and his 35-year-old son, Sunusi Bala, died in a well at Sabon Garin Bauchi, in Wudil Local Government Area of Kano State, while draining water from it. A statement from the spokesperson of the State Fire Service, Alhaji Saminu Abdullahi, on Wednesday, August 10, in Kano revealed that the incident occurred on Tuesday morning, August 9, Peoples Gazette reports. He said: “We received an emergency call from Wudil fire station at about 11:30 a.m from one Isma’ila Idris that two men had been trapped inside a well. ”We immediately sent our rescue team to the scene at…