Crime & City Diary

Two restaurant managers arrested for breaking LASG seal to resume operations

Two managers at Kingfisher, a restaurant in the Lekki area of Lagos State, have been arrested after they broke the government seal used to shut the facility and resume full operations. This was disclosed in a post on the official X handle of the Senior Special Assistant to the Lagos State Governor on New Media, Jubril Gawat, on Monday. Gawat…

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LAWMA seals Alaba market over environmental sanitation offences

Officials of the Lagos Waste Management Authority (LAWMA), in collaboration with the Lagos State Environmental Sanitation and Special Offences Unit, have sealed the Alaba International Market, Ojo, in the early hours of Monday (Today). The Commissioner for the Environment and Water Resources, Tokunbo Wahab, disclosed in a post on his X handle (formerly twitter). According to Wahab, the market was…

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Truck crushes soldier, sugarcane seller to death in Kwara

By Mosunmola Ayobami,Ilorin A truck has crushed a yet-to-be identified military personnel and a sugarcane vendor to death in Kwara State. Westernpost gathered that the accident happened at a checkpoint in Moro local government area of the state over the weekend. Eyewitnesses told Westernpost that an articulated vehicle veered off the road to kill the deceased. The tragedy was however…

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Kwara: 5 burnt to ashes in petrol tanker inferno

By Mosunmola Ayobami,Ilorin At least five persons including a child were reportedly burnt to ashes in Kwara state following an infeno that erupted from a road accident involving a tanker transporting petroleum . The incident reportedly occurred along the Ilorin- Jebba road in Moro local government area of the state. Unofficial sources claimed that the victims lost their lives as…

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BREAKING: LASTMA arraigns 14 officers before disciplinary committee over alleged extortion

14 Lagos State Traffic Management Authority (LASTMA) officers would be appearing before the government’s disciplinary committee for alleged extortion of motorists across the state. The agency made this known in a statement issued on Monday by its Director of Public Affairs, Adebayo Taofiq and posted on LASTMA’s X handle (formerly twitter). A breakdown of the LASTMA officers to be arraigned…

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Court jails 25 internet fraudsters in Anambra

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Enugu Zonal Command, has secured the conviction and sentencing of 25, internet fraudsters before Justice Nnamdi Dimkpa of the Federal High Court sitting in Awka, Anambra State They were jailed on Friday, October 13, 2023 after pleading guilty to one–count separate charge bordering on impersonation. The Convicts are: Kingsley Chekwubechukwu Ngwu, Anthony Emmanuel…

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Ogun police to punish three officers over alleged extortion

By Kolawole Olayinka, Abeokuta The police command in Ogun,, on Sunday said that three officers, Insp. Ikhanorba Lucky, Insp. Paul Sunday and Insp. Edwin Ekeogu , who were allegedly involved in professional misconduct while on visibility policing duty at Maawu Bus stop in Agbado area of the state would be punished. Spokesperson for the Command, SP Omolola Odutola, disclosed this…

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Pandemonium as Correctional centre bus kills one, injured many in Ilorin

……It was hoodlums who attacked our vechicle- NCS Mosunmola Ayobami,Ilorin Pandemonium broke out at Oja-Oba market in Ilorin, Kwara State when a bus belonging to the Nigerian Correctional Service (NCS) conveying some suspects to the court lost control, rammed into people, killing one and injuring many on Thursday. An eyewitness told WesternPost that the vehicle driver approached the area, driving…

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Kwara: Police arrest 14 suspects over criminal conspiracy

….recover arms, stolen vechicle By Mosunmola Ayobami,Ilorin Kwara state Police Command has arrested fourteen suspects over alleged criminal conspiracy, armed robbery, cultism,and Culpable homicide. Parading the suspects at the Police headquarters Ilorin, the state Commisssioner of police , Victor Olaiya said arms and other dangerous weapons were also recovered from the suspects. According to him on the robbery issue one…

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LASTMA averts fire incident on Lagos-Abeokuta Expressway

Operatives of the Lagos State Traffic Management Authority have averted a potential diesel fire explosion early Thursday at Obadeyi, along the Lagos-Abeokuta Expressway. In an official statement from Director of the Public Affairs and Enlightenment Department of LASTMA, Taofiq Adebayo, it was confirmed that a tanker bearing the registration number JJJ 596 XX, fully loaded with diesel products, overturned at…

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