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A mother of three, Mrs. Joke Kolapo has narrated how her husband Sodiq, a bricklayer, was shot and killed by a gang allegedly working for a notorious land grabber, popularly known as Ibile in Ibeju-Lekki, Epe division of Lagos State. She spoke at a news conference held on Tuesday in Lagos where activists under the […]
GiftedHands_OFR, a user on X (formerly Twitter), has recounted how officers of the Special Tactical Team from the Ijegun Police Station unjustly arrested two of his friends and a dispatch rider at a restaurant located at the Iyana-School bus stop on Saturday. In a post on Sunday, the X user said that one of the […]
Xpressverify, an identity verification website that makes money from selling out the personal information of Nigerians, has been suspended by its domain registrar, FIJ can report. This development follows a report by FIJ detailing how Xpressverify had unrestricted access to the National Identification Database and personal details of Nigerians despite being a privately owned website. Namecheap Incorporated, […]
The Police in Lagos State have confirmed the death of a motorist, Seun Sahola, 33 while protesting damage to his car by another motorist, who allegedly hit his car on the Jakande-Lekki-Epe Expressway. The Command’s Public Relations Officer, SP Benjamin Hundeyin, confirmed the incident to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Saturday. Hundeyin said […]
At least 50 persons, some of them children from neighbouring African countries, were, yesterday, rescued from a duplex on Omola Road, in the Edemola area of Epe, Lagos. News filtered around Epe and the entire Lagos State that the rescued persons, foreigners, were kidnapped and kept in the kidnappers’ den, pending when ransom would be […]
FirstNews, an online news platform, says Segun Olatunji, its editor, was on Thursday abducted from his home in Lagos. Olatunji, a former Kaduna bureau chief of The PUNCH, was reportedly picked from his house in Iyana Odo, Abule Egba area of Lagos state by gunmen. In a statement issued on Saturday, the management of the […]
The 81 Division Nigerian Army has apprehended nine individuals who were masquerading as soldiers and engaging in criminal activities in Lagos State. The Acting Deputy Director Army Public Relations, Lieutenant Colonel Olabisi Ayeni, disclosed this in a statement on Thursday. The suspects were said to be involved in various offenses, including performing illegal duties, providing […]
Tragedy struck in the Gbagada area of Lagos after a yet-to-be-identified woman was stabbed to death by her house help, in her apartment on 29, Kiniun-Ifa Street, Sawmill. It was not clear when the fleeing house help, identified simply as Peter, allegedly committed the murder. But the lifeless body of the woman, according to information […]
A baker, Tina Ileogben, has been killed and her heart reportedly ripped out of her chest and stolen at her residence on Olowo Street, in the Alhaja Shifiwa area of Dopemu, Agege, Lagos State. PUNCH Metro gathered that the victim, who was said to be working at a bakery, did not report for duty on Wednesday […]
Stakeholders in the prevention of Sexual and Gender-Based Violence have raised the alarm over an increase in the reporting of sexual abuse against male children in the country. The group also called for meticulous action in tackling what they described as a growing trend before it turned into a monster. The call was made at […]
