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Award winning authors Toni Kan and Leye Adenle will be reading from their wave making novels, The Carnivorous City and Easy Motion Tourist today Wednesday November 23, 2016 at the well appointed rele gallery on Lagos island. The duo, fresh of their appearances and well attended events at the Ake festival will be treating the audience to readings from their novels in a session that will be moderated by novelist and columnist, Eghosa Imasuen. The theme for the evening is ‘Writing Sex and Crime in Lagos’. Describing Adenle’s debut, the…

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Mr. Hakeem Dickson, DG, Lagos State Safety Commission, has been ordered by the Lagos State House of Assembly on Tuesday, to vacate office until given approval by the House. The order followed an observation by the Chairman, House Committee on Special Duties and Inter-Governmental Affairs, Mr Olusola Shokunle, that Dickson was occupying the position without the approval of the House. Shokunle (PDP-Oshodi/Isolo I) told the House that Dickson had not been given approval at any time by the Assembly. The lawmaker added that such a development was against normal practice…

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The present occupant of Eze Epara Rebisi stool, Prince Victor Woluchem, has been ordered by a Rivers State High Court sitting in Port Harcout yesterday, to vacate the seat pending the conclusion of the matter pending before it concerning the throne. The Eze Apara Rebisi stool has been a subject of dispute after the death of Eze Sunday Nnanta Woluchem, who was the last occupant of the stool. While the matter was still subject of litigation, former Governor Chibuike Amaechi, went ahead to recognize Woluchem as the Eze Epara Rebisi.…

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Ibrahim Omilade, the son of a traditional ruler in Oshodi area of Lagos State, alongside two brothers, Shola and Kayode Oni, were, yesterday, condemned to death for killing one Suleiman Afolabi, during a fight on a Christmas day three years ago. Omilade, Kayode and Shola are to die by hanging according to the verdict handed down by Justice Kudirat Jose of an Ikeja High Court, who found them guilty of killing their victim, Afolabi, when a brawl ensued among them on December 25, 2012. Justice Jose ruled: “I pronounce the defendants…

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A total of 8,863 suspected ghost personnel has been uncovered on the payrolls of both the state and local governments by the Kwara State government. Investigation revealed that the exposure was done by the personnel database committee put in place by the state government to verify the credentials and documents of all the categories of workers in the state public service through its biometric data base. During the exercise, it was gathered that the committee went through all the state ministries, parastatals and local government councils in the state to…

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Frank Darlington, the football club manager of Soccer Warriors Football Academy, Pen Cinema, has been arrested by the Lagos State Police Command for allegedly sodomising three of his teenage players in the Agege area of the state. It was gathered that Darlington, the manager of Soccer Warriors Football Academy, Pen Cinema, was arrested last Thursday by the Elere Police Division, after one of the victims reported him to the police. It was learnt that the club manager, who hails from Imo State, allegedly took three footballers to his house on…

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“My people are drinking this water,” King Emere Godwin Bebe Okpabi said, holding up a plastic bottle containing contaminated water from his community in Nigeria, proof of oil pollution that he blames on Royal Dutch Shell — and on which he hopes a London court will deliver justice. Okpabi the tribal king of the Ogale community in the oil-rich Niger Delta has flown to London for a High Court hearing on Tuesday in which lawyers for more than 40,000 Nigerians are demanding action from Shell to clean up oil spills…

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In a ‘major sting operation’ the Nigerian Police Force has dismissed nine officers for criminal missconduct. The dismissal according to a statement on Tuesday was a ‘major sting operation to checkmate corruption and professional misconduct within and outside the police’ and that personnel of the Force who use their official capacities to carry out or get involved in any misconduct were singled out and dealt with according to the law to serve as deterrent to others. Personnel of the Force who erred and compromised in discharging their duties and betraying…

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With an aim to make the Access Bank/Lagos Marathon a sought after international event, Lagos State governor, Mr. Akinwumi Ambode has taken over the running of the 2017 edition of the race fixed for February 11, 2017. Mr. Ambode who was speaking at the Lagos State government house at the weekend, stated that he was very determined to make a good show of the marathon as it was part of his agenda to transform Lagos to becoming one of the best cities in the world. He said they will also use…

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10 persons, including a nine-year-old girl, were rescued from kidnappers’ den in Abuja, yesterday, following the ongoing joint military and police operation that commenced on Saturday According to the FCT Police Commissioner, Mustapha Mohammed, the kidnapped victims were rescued in the Robochi Forest located between Abuja and Nasarawa State. Eight of the victims were rescued on Sunday, while two others were rescued yesterday in an early morning operation. Speaking in the same vein, FCT Minister, Musa Muhammed, noted that the joint operation involved 250 personnel of the Police, Army, DSS,…

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