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Task force members detained after taking N100,000 bribe from actress

Nov 23, 2020 topnews

DSP Popoola Kayode; a team leader in the Lagos State Task Force on Environmental and Special Offences (Enforcement) Unit, alongside his members have been arrested and detained for allegedly extorting N100,000 from a traffic offender, Didi Ekanem who is an actress . The actress who was held for traffic offence around Lekki axis of Lagos, accused the state task force of extortion and harassment. She also granted an interview with Punch Newspaper, alleging that the team leader also made sexual advances at her, and demanded money; she said she transferred…

Kidnapping: Bandits demand N100m ransom for abducted ASPs

Nov 19, 2020 topnews

Reports say armed bandits holding Assistant Superintendents of Police captive in Katsina State for over one week are demanding N100m ransom for their release. It was gathered that the ASPs were among the nine who were just promoted to their current rank. They were attached to the Mobile Police Squadron 6, Maiduguri, Borno State. The officers who were demobilised from the riot unit and eight of them were on their way to the Zamfara State Police Command on transfer when they were ambushed in the Dogondaji area of Katsina State…

I can never be arrested, Shekau boasts in latest video

Nov 18, 2020 topnews

The leader of Jama’atu Ahlissunnah Lidda’awati Wal Jihad also known as Boko Haram, Abubakar Shekau, in his latest video, has again taunted the Nigerian military, that he cannot be arrested because he is doing the work of God. The Nigerian Army had on November 11, 2020 kicked off a fresh manhunt for Shekau and other top commanders of the sect. In his new video, Shekau said nobody can arrest him because he was doing the work of God who will protect him. “Nobody can apprehend me, because I’m doing God’s…

Diversion of funds: Businessman wants EFCC to investigate LUTH staff

Nov 16, 2020 topnews

A Lagos based businessman, Babatunde Saka and his company Ofly Global Resources Limited, in a suit filed before a Lagos High Court in South West Nigeria, are urging the court to compel Economic and Financial Crime Commission, EFCC to investigate a staff of Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH), Saheed Ayinla Ogundare who trade under the name and style of SEADROF HOTELS &SUITES operating from Block2, Flat5, LUTH Staff Quarters Idi Araba, Mushin Lagos, for alleged diversion of funds of the Teaching hospital. Joined as co-defendants in the ensuing legal hostility,…

Born in 1996, employed in 1992; Reps to investigate 24-year-old deputy director

Nov 15, 2020 topnews

The House of Representatives expressed grave concerns over the inefficiencies in the operations of Bureau of Public Procurement (BPP) and resolved to investigate a Deputy Director Accounts on Grade Level 16 who was born on January 8, 1996, but employed December 15, 1992, and promoted Deputy Director on January 1, 2019. This happened during the ongoing budget defence as lawmakers expressed the concern during the 2020 budget performance and 2021 budget defence on BPP. It also demanded the utilization of various subheads on N22.666 million spent on welfare packages, N17.912…

Prominent Lagos indigenes want NURTW activities dissolved

Nov 15, 2020Nov 15, 2020 topnews

Prominent Indigenes of Lagos, a group said to be advocating for the advancement of the State, has charged the Lagos State government to stop all taxes illegally collected by the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW) on Lagos roads and give them to local councils, for maintenance of roads, provision of health services, infrastructure and other needs. In a statement signed by prominent indigenes of the state which include Chief Alaba Williams; the Ajiroba of Lagos, Bashorun Jaiye Randle; Dr. Ade Dosunmu and Convener, Chief Adesunbo Onitiri; they also…

PPMC hikes fuel price, petrol to sell at N167-N175 per litre

Nov 13, 2020 topnews

The Petroleum Products Marketing Company, one of the downstream subsidiaries of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC has hiked the price of Premium Motor Spirit, PMS also known as petrol by N7.50 per litre to N155.17 per litre from N147.67 per litre previously. In a memo from the Manager Marketing of the PPMC, Tijani Ali, to the Executive Director, Commercial, EDC, of the PPMC, the NNPC subsidiary said the new price would come into effect from November 13, 2020. The ex-depot price is the amount at which the PPMC sells…

UNILAG VC Ogundipe resumes work after reinstatement

Nov 12, 2020 topnews

Vice-Chancellor of the University of Lagos, Prof. Oluwatoyin Ogundipe who was reinstatement by the President Muhammadu Buhari after his sack by the University’s governing council has resumed work. Ogundipe was earlier asked to step aside pending the outcome of an investigation over allegations of infractions and gross misconduct. Ogundipe’s resumption was greeted with excitement as he was received by members of staff of UNILAG, including top management personnel, at the Senate Building foyer. He urged the workers to allow peace to reign in the institution. “Let us all be united.…

Covid-19 : Former President, Jerry Rawlings is dead

Nov 12, 2020 topnews

Nigerians in Canada carpet FG for freezing #EndSARS promoters’ accounts

Nov 12, 2020 topnews

A group known as Coalition of Nigerians in Canada (CONIC) has condemned the Federal Government’s decision to freeze the bank accounts of about 20 #EndSARS protesters. The group described the government’s action as obnoxious and a confirmation that it had resorted to intimidation and harassment of real and imaginary enemies. It threatened to call on the Canadian government to intervene and impose economic and diplomatic sanctions on the Nigerian government “if need be.” CONIC, in a statement signed by its coordinators, Yemi Adegbite, Kemi Amusan and Femi Boyede, expressed disappointment…