Crime & City Diary
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BREAKING: Lagos Police neutralises 9-man kidnapping gang
…..recovers 9 AK-47 magazine, 4 AK-47 rifles, 4 locally made pistols, others The Lagos Police Command has foiled kidnapping attempt by a 9-man gang of kidnappers terrorising Isolo, Okota, Ejigbo and Mushin areas of the State. The Command said the kidnappers were killed in a gun battle with police on Thursday night in Lagos’ Ladipo neighbourhood. Nine AK-47 magazines, three…
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TRAGIC: Man, 61 electrocuted in Lagos flood
The Lagos State Police Command, has revealed that a 61-year-old man died from electrocution during the flood incident on Wednesday. SP Benjamin Hundeyin, Lagos police spokesperson, posted on his X handle on Thursday. The incident happened at Orile-Iganmu on Wednesday amid the downpour that paralysed commercial activities and vehicular movement in parts of Lagos. “During the rain yesterday in Orile-Iganmu,…
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Manslaughter: 12years after, Court jails bus driver for killing LASTMA officer
A Lagos State High Court in Ikeja has jailed a commercial bus driver, Elijah Shokoya, to 12 years imprisonment for killing an officer of the Lagos State Traffic Management Agency. Justice Oyindamola Ogala sentenced Shokoya after finding him guilty of the offence of manslaughter. The judge held that the prosecution had proved beyond reasonable doubt the one count of the…
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Policemen to face trial over assault of suspect
By Innocent Raphael The Lagos State Commissioner of Police, CP Adegoke Fayoade, has ordered an immediate trial for police officers caught on video assaulting a suspect who was resisting arrest. This disclosure was contained in a statement signed by the Police Public Relations Officer, SP Benjamin Hundeyin on Wednesday. The incident which has sparked widespread outrage and calls for accountability…
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BREAKING: Nigeria Customs seizes assorted arms, drones, military accoutrements at Lagos Airport
…..Arrests one suspect Less than 48 hours after intercepting a container of arms at Onne Port, Rivers State, the Comptroller General of Customs (CGC), Bashir Adewale Adeniyi, has announced another seizure at Murtala Muhammed Airport (MMA), Lagos. This latest seizure involved 55 unassembled pieces of Jojef Magnum semi-automatic shotguns and a cache of ammunition, all imported from Turkey with a…
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VIDEOS! Heavy Rainfall: Commuters face difficulties as flood takes over Lagos roads
Commuters on Wednesday find it hard to move to their destinations as flood took over Lagos roads following heavy rainfall. The heavy rainfall which started at midnight around 3am, caused motorists to spend hours from one destination to another. https://www.westernpost.ng/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/VID-20240703-WA0203.mp4 Many who defied the rain and left their homes with the hope of getting to their places of work were…
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NSCDC nabs 3 over alleged theft, burglary, fraud in Kwara
By Mosunmola Ayobami, Ilorin The Kwara State Command of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) has apprehended three suspects involved in theft, burglary, and fraud. On Monday, July 1, 2024, detectives from the command’s tracking unit arrested one Ibrahim Wasiu, a 31-year-old resident of Eyenkorin, Kwara State. The arrest followed a report by a certain Mumini Kabir regarding…
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Many trapped as four-storey building collapses in Abuja
Many people were reportedly trapped as four-storey building attached to Westbrook hotelin the Garki area of the Federal Capital Territory collapsed on Monday night. It was gathered that emergency agency swiftly responded to the incident as two people were pulled out from the rubble and taken to the hospital while the rescue operations went on. The hotel was said to…
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Court orders EFCC to pay Emefiele’s wife N3m over infringement of fundamental rights
A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos has ordered the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to pay N3 million to Magaret, the wife of the former Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Governor, Godwin Emefiele, over infringement of her rights. The Court also held that it is illegal for the EFCC to declare her wanted. Justice Deinde Dipeolu made the…
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BREAKING: 2 dead, 4 injured in Sagamu-Ijebu Ode expressway motor accident
The Ogun State Traffic Compliance and Enforcement Agency has confirmed the death of two persons and injury to four persons following a head-on collision along the Sagamu/Ijebu-Ode expressway. A statement issued on Monday by the spokesperson of the state-owned traffic outfit, Babatunde Akinbiyi, said “The road crash involved a Howo Truck with no registration number and a Toyota Hiace Bus…
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