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The Lagos State Police Command has detained a woman, Jennifer Madueke, over a missing service pistol belonging to the Denton Divisional Police Officer, CSP Adegoke Akinlade. It was gathered that the 29-year-old woman, after spending three days in a detention facility at the Denton Police Station, Ebute Meta, Lagos, where she was allegedly tortured to confess to the crime, was transferred to the State Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department, Yaba. It was learnt that Madueke and Akinlade once dated and separated after the Police officer was transferred out of Lagos…

Following request by security agencies, the Federal Government, yesterday, said it approved the request to shut down telecommunications activities in Zamfara State. Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Isa Pantami, made the disclosure after the Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari, at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. Pantami said contrary to insinuations in some quarters, the directive did not originate from his ministry, which supervises the sector. He said the decision was taken at the behest of security agencies who had argued that it would curtail…

Oluwarotimi Akeredolu, Ondo State Governor and Chairman of South-West Governors’ Forum, has warned the Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria (MACBAN) against flouting the state’s anti-open grazing law. Akeredolu insisted that his administration would not hesitate to decisively deal with any offender who flouts the anti-open grazing bill, which he recently signed into law. He said that the law would be enforced vigorously. Senior Special Assistant to the Governor on Special Duties and Strategy, Dr. Doyin Odebowale, in a statement made available in Akure, yesterday, reiterated that “no bandit…

The crisis over the Value Added Tax deepened on Wednesday with the Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, ordering companies based in the state to start paying VAT to the state government. Wike gave the order during a stakeholders’ meeting in Port Harcourt with representatives of Shell Petroleum Development Company and other oil companies as well as business owners in the state. The governor, who accused the Federal Inland Revenue Service of threatening companies based in the state, said any organisation that failed to pay VAT to the state would be…