3 individuals have been rescued from a boat which capsized at Ogogoro village, Boulos, Navy Town, Apapa, Lagos, on Friday, the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), said. . This information is contained in a statement issued by NEMA in Lagos. . It stated that the three persons included a child, a woman and the boat operator, noting that they were rescued alive. . The statement said that the incident occurred around 12:05 a.m., and the boat conveying the woman and her child was traveling without headlights when it collided with a bigger boat. . The occupants of the boat were…
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The police on Friday arraigned two fake prophets, Williams Ehuchie, 31, and Abubakar Mikairu, 28, in a Wuse Zone 2 Senior Magistrates’ Court for cheating unsuspecting victims. . Ehucie and Mikairu are charged with belonging to a gang of armed robbers. . The prosecutor, Insp. Jeremiah Elijah, told the court that the accused persons were arrested during a raid by a team of police officers from Lugbe, Abuja, led by Spt. Raphael Uwadia in a black spot in Galadimawa village, Abuja. . Elijah told the court that they were arrested on Jan. 17 where they were chanting and perpetrating their…
The Supreme Court, today held that the Court of Appeal was not right in joining former Imo governor Ikedi Ohakim as a party in the suit brought by Sen. Ifeanyi Ararume. . Gov. Rochas Okorocha of Imo had challenged the joinder of Ikedi as a party in the suit. . The top court, in a unanimous judgment, held that the Appeal Court was wrong in granting leave to join the People’s Democratic Party candidate, ex-Imo Gov Ikedi Ohakim, in the appeal. . Mr Niyi Akintola, SAN, Okorocha’s counsel, had in his appeal application joined as first respondents, the Peoples’ Democratic…
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, Seme Border Command in Lagos, on Friday said it arrested 21 Nigerians and seized 426kg of narcotics in 2013. . The Commander, Mr Nicholas Ajaduruonye, said in Badagry, Lagos, that the seizures consisted 422.55kg of cannabis, 950g of meta amphetamine, 1.3kg of heroin and 1.2kg of cocaine. . “All the drugs were imported into the country; we did not have any case of drugs being exported out of the country,” he said. . Ajaduruonye confidently said that the arrested persons were 17 males and 4 females, adding that the command had so far convicted…
Highway sweepers on Friday begged the Lagos Waste Management Authority (LAWMA) for protection from speeding vehicles that kill some of them while performing their duties and that they were poorly catered to. . They pleaded with the management to provide them with adequate tools to make their work efficient and lives safe. . Some of them who spoke on condition of anonymity at Ojota, Ikorodu road and Tincan Island port roads claimed that they bought most of their tools and kits with their own personal money. . One of the sweepers who gave her name as Bisi, said most of…
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has strongly condemned the harassment of its Deputy National Secretary, Malam Nasir El-Rufai, by the Department of State Security (DSS), describing as a shameful overkill the storming of his home in Abuja by armed DSS operatives on Friday, without showing any arrest warrant. . In a statement inn Abuja, Friday, by its Interim National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the party expressed shock that the DSS was seeking to arrest El-Rufai for merely exercising his constitutional right of free speech. . It said there was nothing inciting or extraordinary in the statement credited to Malam…
10 people have been murdered by boko haram insurgents in Njaba village of Damboa Local Government on Tuesday while 8 others were also killed in Kaya village of the same Local Government area on Wednesday when the boko haram attacked the two villages setting houses and shops ablaze. . This is even as over 20 communities of Limanti, Yahuri, Goskari Gana and Ngawo Fate among others in Konduga Council Area were sacked by Boko Haram insurgents who are currently taking refuge at the federal training centre, Maiduguri. . According to Wadai Mutah resident of Njaba village who brought five of…
Major Hamza Al-Mustapha, former Chief Security Officer to the late Head of State, Gen. Sani Abacha, on Friday asked to partner with the Bauchi State Government to improve youth development. . Al- Mustapha, who is the President, Unity and Development Initiative (APUDI), an NGO, made the plea when he led members of the management team of the organisation on a courtesy call to the Bauchi State Governor, Malam Isa Yuguda, in Bauchi. . He said that the organisation was creating new opportunities that would promote the well being of the younger ones. . “We will channel their request through some…
Dr Ayuba Wabba, Chairman, Joint Health Workers Union (JOHESU) has described the three-day nationwide warning strike embarked upon by members as ‘A Success’. . Wabba told journalists in an interview in Abuja on Friday, “there was 100 per cent compliance by members across the country. . “ Though, Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LUTH) and some others were on strike before we sent the notice, they still complied,’’ he said. . Wabba said that the warning strike was aimed at solving the crisis in the sector as it would ginger the government to do the needful concerning all agreements signed…
A chieftain of All Progressives Congress (APC) Mr Osita Okechukwu, has said the party’s directive to its lawmakers to block all executive bills and proposals was to draw President Goodluck Jonathan’s attention to developments in Rivers. . APC had on Jan 23 directed its members in the two chambers of the National Assembly to block all proposals or bills sent in for consideration by the President. . Okechukwu on Friday in Abuja said that the directive should not be seen as an attempt by the party to destabilise the polity, but one taken to ensure quick resolution to the crisis…