Adewale Olupitan-Hassan, who died after being allegedly brutalised by soldiers attached to the Flag Staff House, Force Road, Lagos, has been buried. At a prayer session held at his Opebi residence before his remains were interred at the Atan Cemetery, Lagos, on Saturday, friends, associates and family members paid tribute to the retired director of […]
Leadership Newspaper has petitioned the Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Umaru Manko, over the beating of its photojournalist, Benedict Uwalaka, by some mortuary attendants at the state’s University Teaching Hospital. Uwalaka was attacked while covering the release of the corpses of the victims of Dana plane crash to their families. A legal practitioner, Adamu […]
retired deputy commissioner of police with the Air wing of the Nigeria Police, Pullen Agbonifor, was, on Tuesday, killed by gunmen suspected to be hired assassins in Lagos. Agbonifor was shot on Tuesday around 9.00 a.m. by a four–man gang, who invaded his Idimu Egbeda, Unity Estate home. The killers reportedly took advantage of the […]
Ikeja – Gov. Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State on Thursday in Ikeja signed the Lagos State Road Traffic Bill into law. The governor assented to the bill at a ceremony attended by members of the executive council, top officials of the police and those of other traffic management agencies. Fashola said the new law was […]
Photo: Sun News Publishing Omotola and Toye kneeling before the decomposed body of Akinbuyi By: PHILIP NWOSU, MATTHEW DIKE and GILBERT EKEZIE Date: Thu, 07/26/2012 – 22:49 The entire Festival Town, commonly called FESTAC in Lagos was thrown into pandemonium on Thursday evening as a decomposing body of a man was discovered inside a duplex […]
By Tochukwu Ezukanma | Lagos, Nigeria | July 26, 2012 – A major problem of Nigeria is the oil money. Oil money is extraordinary in that it does not come from any national effort, toil or sweat. It comes not from any agricultural, manufacturing, scientific or technological endeavor. It results not from our resourcefulness, innovation […]
Tragedy struck on Raufu Alajo Street, Agege, Lagos, on Wednesday when a 19-year-old bus conductor, Sulaimon Balla, was burnt to death in an abandoned mini bus. PUNCH Metro learnt that Balla slept in the bus which had been abandoned on the street for weeks on Tuesday night. It was gathered that street urchins in the […]
Bandits have killed a policeman, Mr. Sunday Agboricaen, and by-standers in Badagry area of Lagos State while robbing a pick-up van laden with a huge sum of money owned by a bank. Eyewitness said the pick-up was being escorted by another van when hoodlums in a Sports Utility Vehicle opened fire on them, causing the […]
An official of the Lagos State Traffic Management Authority, Mustapher Adeleke, was allegedly killed by the driver of a blue Volkswagen Bus with registration number LSR 942XC. PUNCH Metro learnt that the deceased who was at his duty post at Oke Afa, Ejigbo with his colleagues were part of the team deployed in the area […]
Those officers I caught are very bad examples for the military’ BY OLASUNKANMI AKONI & MONSUR OLOWOOPEJO LAGOS – Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State, yesterday, arrested two military officers who drove on the dedicated Bus Rapid Transit, BRT, lane. The two military officers, who were accosted on the BRT lane at the Outer […]
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