The police officer that allegedly killed Kolade Johnson has been dismissed by the Nigeria Police Force yesterday. According to Lagos Police Spokesman, Bala Elkana, the judgment was served in an orderly room trial by the Lagos State Police Command. “The two police officers, alleged to have been involved in the shooting of Kolade Johnson on March 31, 2019, were apprehended and subjected to internal disciplinary proceedings, known as Orderly Room Trial by the Command. “The Orderly Room trial commenced on Monday, April 1, 2019 and ended on Thursday, April 4,…

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Ogayi Deckland, 35, has been arrested for aggressively driving off with an officer of the Lagos State Traffic Management Authority, who had to cling to his car bonnet along the Igbogbo Park Road in Ikorodu on (Thursday), March 28, 2019, around 6.55pm. Deckland was said to have disobeyed the instruction of the traffic personnel on duty in the area by driving on when he was asked to wait and attempted to hit a LASTMA officer, Adeyinka Seriki, who jumped onto the bonnet of the car to avert being killed. It…

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Police in Imo confirmed the death of two persons  suspected to be students of Federal University of Technology, Owerri, FUTO, Ugochukwu Kingsley and Aka Uche, both male, yesterday, after India hemp and tramadol were recovered from their room. Two others were said to be hospitalized. The incident was said to have happened at Sunshine Lodge in Ihiagwa in Owerri West Local Government Area in Imo State. It was learnt that the incident which happened on Tuesday, at about 10:30pm  was reported to the nearest police division around 12:00pm by the…

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Josephine Omolu, a 36 -year-old housewife, on Wednesday appeared in an Ikeja Magistrates’ Court for allegedly pouring hot water on a neighbour for greeting her husband. The Police Prosecutor, Assistant Superintendent of Police Clifford Ogu, told the court that the defendant committed the offence on March 26 at Agbotikuyo, Agege, Lagos. He said that the defendant unlawfully scalded her neighbour, Mrs Blessing Christopher with hot water. Ogu alleged that the defendant attacked the complainant after she greeted her husband. The prosecution said that the complainant is currently on admission being…

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Yusuf Atanda, a 27-year-old businessman was yesterday arraigned by the police, who charged him with impersonating Pastor Enoch Adeboye and two other church general overseers to defraud members of the public. According to the police, Atanda created fake Facebook accounts of Adeboye of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, Pastor D.K. Olukoya of Mountain of Fire and Miracle Ministry, and Pastor T.B. Joshua of the Synagogue Church of All Nations, to defraud people. The defendant, who resides at Okokomaiko in Lagos, is being tried for cybercrime before Magistrate M.O Tanimola…

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In order to conceal her infidelity, a 38-year-old mother of two, Esther Irawo, who is a resident of No. 6 Sule Street, Wera Estate, Ikorodu, Lagos State, has allegedly killed her friend, Femi Afolabi, 38. Irawo was said to have accused Femi, of informing her husband that he saw her with another man in a hotel and allegedly threatened to deal with him for trying to ruin her home. The deceased’s father, Adeyemi Afolabi, a 72-year-old retired soldier, said he heard Femi shouting from his room that Irawo was trying…

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