Three senior officials of the Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC) were on Wednesday arraigned before the Lagos State High Court sitting in Ikeja over alleged fraud, corruption and money laundering amounting to over N2.04bn. The defendants are Felix Njoku, a former Director of Finance of the NRC; Benjamin Chinwuba Iloanusi, currently a Director in the corporation’s…
The Police Command in Lagos State has apprehended officers involved in a shooting that killed two passersby in the Alagbado area of the state. Command spokesman, CSP Abimbola Adebisi disclosed this in an X post on Friday evening. It was learnt that some policemen chasing suspected internet fraudsters, better known as yahoo boys, shot at…
A Lagos-based couple, identified simply as Fred and Goodness, have been arrested for allegedly staging their own kidnap and extorting N10m in ransom from their families and friends. PUNCH Metro learnt that the couple faked the abduction on January 7 to solicit funds for the husband, who intended to return to the United States due…
Justice Modupe Nicole-Clay of the Lagos State High Court sitting in Ikeja, Lagos, has convicted one Victor Ogiemwonyi and his company, Partnership Securities Limited, for stealing the sum of N953,535,861.57 (Nine Hundred and Fifty-Three Million, Five Hundred and Thirty-Five Thousand, Eight Hundred and Sixty-One Naira, Fifty-Seven Kobo) and $80,000.00 (Eighty Thousand United States Dollars). The…
A technical fault on Friday forced a Qatar Airways aircraft carrying 248 passengers and 12 crew members to make an emergency landing at the Murtala Mohammed International Airport, Lagos. In a statement, Olufemi Oke-Osanyintolu, permanent secretary of the Lagos State Emergency Management Agency (LASEMA), said the aircraft developed a fault while in flight within Nigerian…
Three vibrant men from the same family have been confirmed dead in the recent fire incident that gutted parts of the Great Nigeria House at Balogun Market, Lagos Island, during the Christmas Eve tragedy in Lagos. The victims—Steven Onyeka Omatu (40), Casmir Nnabuike Omatu (39), and Collins Kenechukwu Omatu (37)—were confirmed killed in the inferno…
Two suspected members of the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) have been arrested in Lagos State. The suspects, identified as Modu Gana and Ibrahim Dugge, were apprehended on Sunday, December 21, by operatives of the Department of State Security (DSS). A security source with direct knowledge of the operation told Premium Times that the…
The Lagos State Government has issued a stern warning to hotels, restaurants, and event venues against unjustified price hikes and the cancellation of confirmed bookings during the ongoing Detty December festivities. The Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, confirmed this in an interview with TVC News on Monday. According to Punch, the government will no longer…
Operatives of the Ibadan Zonal Directorate of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, have uncovered huge counterfeit foreign notes to the tune of $3, 430, 000 an Presd €280,000 in possession of a five-member syndicate arrested for allegedly swindling one Halima Sanni the sum of N26, 550,000 The herbalists: Akingbola Omotayo, Adeola Funsho Ogunrinde,…
The Lagos State Police Command has arrested 13 suspected hoodlums in connection with the assault on a police officer in the Oshodi area of the state. A viral video on Thursday showed the officer sitting on the ground with blood dripping from his mouth as an irate crowd encircled him. Visibly shaken and pleading for…
