Monday, May 11, 2020

COVID-19: A lock-down night in the life of a newsman

By Adekunle Adekoya
Fear is the key that unlocks peoples' pockets, so said Poke Toholo, a character in James Hadley Chase's “Want to Stay Alive?”

Lockdown: Lagos CP saves mother, children from sleeping at park

Juliana Francis
The Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Hakeem Odumosu surprised policemen who were on patrol duty with him when he took a mother and her three children to safety, rather than arrest them for flouting the curfew in the state.

Madam’s thugs beat housemaid to death over N2000, secretly bury her

Patience Ogbo
The suspect
Policemen attached to the Bariga Police State, Lagos State, have arrested Shade Moke for allegedly hiring three men to beat her 16-year-old house maid to death for allegedly stealing her N2000.

Man arrested for causing peace maker’s death in Lagos

Juliana Francis
Detectives attached to the Mushin Police Station, Lagos State, have arrested Mr. Owolabi Fasasi for allegedly pushing Taiwo Adekoya to the ground, and thereby causing her death.

How billionaire corporal was deceived by gang member, killed by Police

Juliana Francis
Asiegbuelam
Fresh facts have emerged on how the late dismissed police corporal, alleged billionaire kidnapper, Collins Ezenwa, otherwise known as E-Money was tricked by his gang member into Police trap and killed by policemen from the Imo State Police Command.

Pay N50m yearly or we kidnap you, terrorist group tells expatriates

*Group collects N120m from two expatriates
*Members: We were recruited in mosques after prayers
*Professional doctors trained us in forest, says group’s doctor
*… ‘We were trained in Libya on how to fight government, kidnap’

Recovered packs of syringes
Juliana Francis
On May 1, 2019, four gunmen stormed the residence of Alhaji Musa Umar Uba, who holds the title of Magajin Garin Daura in Katsina State and abducted him.
Three months after his abduction, he was rescued by operatives of the Inspector-General of Police Special Intelligence Response Team (IRT) in conjunction with the Kano State Police Command.

Court Orders Final Forfeiture of Army General's N426.7m

Justice Muslim Hassan of the Federal High Court sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos, on Friday, May 8, 2020, ordered the final forfeiture of the sum of  N426.7m belonging to Brig.-Gen. John Onimisi Ozigi(retd.) to the Federal Government.