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Attempt by some suspected robbers to rescue their colleagues earlier arrested by the police proved abortive Tuesday in Oleh, Isoko South local government area, Delta State, as three of them were killed in a gun battle with men of the state police command. It was gathered that the deceased killed on Tuesday, were members of a robbery gang that have been terrorising Oleh and its environs. Confirming the incident Wednesday, Mr. Andrew Aniamaka, Police Public Relations Officer of the state command, said the suspected robbers were killed after they had ambushed some police officers from the Oleh divisional headquarters, who…

A Chief Magistrates’ Court, sitting at Ebute- Metta, Lagos, Wednesday, sentenced a property developer, to 10 years imprisonment for defrauding 133 accommodation seekers of N25 million. Chief Magistrate O. O. Olatunji convicted the property developer, Alhaji Ayobami Oseni after his plea of “guilty” to 267 counts of conspiracy, obtaining under false pretences and stealing. Mr. Olatunji said that the offences contravened Section 285, and is punishable under sections 312 and 409 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2011. He sentenced Oseni to 10 years imprisonment on each of the 267 counts without an option of fine. The Magistrate said…

Two men who allegedly stole their neighbour’s, Bajaj motorcycle, killed the owner and dumped his body in the bush have been apprehended by men of Ogun State Police Command. The Police Public Relations Officer in the State, Abimbola Oyeyemi, in a statement, said the two suspects; Patrick Udom, 35, from Akwa Ibom State and Roland James, 25, from Delta State have been arrested. Oyeyemi said they were arrested following a complaint by the elder brother of the victim, one Moses Utuede, who reported at Obalende Divisional headquarters that his younger brother, Happy Patrick left home around 7 a.m. on 15th…

Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo says “Even the position that I currently occupy, I did not ask for it and I’m prepared to leave it at a short notice. It doesn’t mean anything.” Osinbajo, who addressed Benue stakeholders Tuesday night in Makurdi, shortly after visiting IDPs camps for victims of herdsmen crisis in the state, was reacting to statements by the Catholic Bishop of Gboko, Most Rev. William Avenya, who had alleged that the Vice President had been mute in the face of killings, oppression of smaller tribes and the palpable fear of an Islamic agenda by the present government. The…

Barely 24 hours after the National Bureau of Statistics, NBS, reported a sustained decrease in inflation rate, the Bureau, Wednesday, reported that transport fare was moving in opposite direction, with the average fare paid by commuters for bus, air, water and motorcycle (Okada) journeys, rising for the fourth consecutive month in April 2018. The NBS stated this in its Transport fare watch April 2018 report. Data by the NBS showed that average fare paid by commuters for motorcycle recorded the highest increase, month-on-month ( MoM) in April, followed by fare for bus within the city, fare for water way transport,…

The Federal Executive Council, FEC, has given contractors handling the Oron-Calabar section of the East-West road a matching order to speed up completion of the road before the rains. The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, stated this Wednesday while briefing the State House correspondents after the weekly FEC meeting presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari at the Council Chamber, Presidential Villa, Abuja. Mohammed further said, “Council directed the Minister of Niger Delta to speed up re-negotiations with the contractors to ensure immediate resumption of the completion of that phase of road.” He announced that the FEC has…

The Senate has summoned the Chief of Army Staff, Lieutenant-General Tukur Buratai, the Director-General, Department of State Services, DSS, Lawal Daura, and the Inspector-General of Police, IGP, Ibrahim Idris, to appear before it next week Wednesday over the repeated killings in Birnin-Bwari, Kaduna State. Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki, announced this Wednesday, following a point of Order raised by Senator Shehu Sani, APC, Kaduna Central. Appealing to the conscience of the Senate on the killings in Birnin-Gwari local government area of Kaduna State, Senator Sani said: “On and on, people are being killed and farmers are relocating to the cities…

National Emergency Management Agency, NEMA, has been urged to immediately intervene by providing relief materials to the victims and to help in rebuilding their homes, worship places and schools following deaths and destruction of property by windstorm recently in Ebonyi State. The Senate has also called on the Nigerian Meteorological Agency, NIMET and other relevant government agencies to be more proactive in predicting and giving early warning signals of natural disasters so that the people could take precautionary measures to minimize the disastrous effects of such natural disasters. The Upper chamber has also mandated its Committee on Environment to visit…

Uneasy calm pervades Nsukka catholic diocese in Nsukka local government area, Enugu state as Echera community dragged the catholic Bishop, Rt. Rev. Prof. Godfrey Igwebuike Onah and St. Joseph Catholic Church, Agu Echera Nsukka to court for trespass, claiming N2 million as general damages on the community land in dispute. In suit No N/113/2017, the plaintiffs Chief John Alumona, Barr. Julius Ozioko and Barr. Ejimofor Onah, suing for themselves and on behalf of the people of Echera, Nsukka are seeking an order of the court directing, compelling the defendants to remove the foundation and block work it is constructing on parts…

More than 220 killings and other violent deaths arising from what it called non-traditional crimes were said to have occurred in Nigeria within in the last two weeks, lamenting that the country was fast receding to total regime collapse and anarchy, a coalition of civil rights groups, International Society for Civil Liberties & the Rule of Law, INTERSOCIETY, has alleged. “Of the number, no fewer than 71 confirmed deaths and 87 feared deaths took place in Kaduna State alone,” according to INTERSOCIETY. The group in a statement also said that “there are also no fewer than 59 Christians killed by…