Anxiety in Benue as criminal gang of late militia kingpin, Gana embark on killings, kidnapping
•Youths raise alarm, send SOS to IGP•Reports say 66 victims recorded so far By Ifeanyi Okolie There is anxiety in Benue state following the resurgence of massive killings and abductions by criminals suspected to be remnants of the dreaded gang members of late militia leader, Terwase Akwaza alias Gana. The bloodletting has gotten to the […]
Labourer steals 78-yr-old woman’s handbag containing cup of rice
A 19-year-old labourer, Joseph Emmanuel, was, yesterday, docked before an Ogudu Magistrate’s Court, Lagos, over alleged theft of an old woman’s handbag containing a cup of rice.
2 men beat policeman in Lagos, docked
Two men, Ifeanyi Uzoma, 33, and Chukwendu Njoku, 33, charged with tearing a policeman’s uniform, were, yesterday, taken before an Ikeja Magistrate’s Court.
Lawan collected $500,000 bribe from me under DSS supervision – Otedola
ABUJA—Chairman of Zenon Petroleum and Gas Ltd., Chief Femi Otedola, yesterday, told an Abuja High Court sitting at Apo that it was the Department of State Services, DSS, that gave him the $500,000 bribe money he offered to erstwhile Chairman of the House of Representatives Ad Hoc Committee on Fuel Subsidy probe, Mr. Farouk Lawan.
DSS gave me dollars to set trap for Farouk Lawan, Otedola tells court
Mr Femi Otedola, a prosecution witness in the ongoing trial of a former member of House of Representatives, Mr Farouk Lawan, over bribery allegation has said the 500,000 dollars offered to the defendant is from the Department of State Service (DSS).
Gunmen kill another Police orderly in Edo
BENIN—Police orderly, Sergeant Monday Ehigie, attached to Dr. Eric Osayande, Chairman of Ikpoba-Okha Local Government Area of Edo State, was weekend reportedly killed by unknown gunmen at Nomayo Junction, Upper Sakponba Road, Benin City.
