Friday, June 19

Metro

Traders Decry Low Patronage Amid Price Fluctua

Residents and traders across parts of Lagos, Ogun and Kaduna states have lamented fluctuating food prices and poor patronage ahead of the Eid-el-Kabir celebration, describing the economic situation as unbearable for many families preparing for the festive period. PUNCH Metro…

Father demands probe of Rivers cleric, hospital over girl’s

A resident of the Diobu area of Port Harcourt City Local Government Area, Kehinde Ajibade, has called on the Rivers State Police Command to investigate the circumstances surrounding the death of his 16-year-old daughter at a private hospital in the…

NDLEA Rearrests ‘Dead’ Edo Drug Suspect Who Jumped Bail

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, Edo State Command, has re-arrested and arraigned before the Federal High Court in Benin a suspected drug trafficker, Ibrahim Yusuf Lawal, who allegedly jumped bail and was falsely declared dead by his wife in…

Lagos Police foil kidnap attempt, neutralise four suspects

The Lagos State Police Command on Tuesday disclosed how its operatives foiled a kidnap attempt and neutralised four suspected kidnappers during a gun battle in the Ejigbo area of the state. The state Commissioner of Police, Tijani Fatai, made this…

Clearing Agent Faces Court in Lagos

A clearing agent, Agoro Moninuola, has been arraigned by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency before a Federal High Court in Lagos over the alleged attempted exportation of 2.80 kilograms of cocaine to the United Kingdom through the Murtala Muhammed…

Lagos Recovers N270m for Victims of Real Estate Fraud

The Lagos State Government has disclosed that it recovered over N270m from fraudulent estate agents and property developers on behalf of residents affected by real estate fraud across the state. According to a statement made available to PUNCH Metro on…

Three Suspected Kidnappers Killed, Victim Rescued

Three suspected kidnappers were killed during a gun duel with operatives of the Oyo State Police Command and local hunters in Otu, Itesiwaju Local Government Area of the state, while a 50-year-old abducted man, Mosudi Gbolagade, was rescued from captivity.…

EFCC secures interim attachment of two properties in Ado-Ekiti

The Ilorin Zonal Directorate of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has secured the interim attachment of a lounge and a four-bedroom bungalow located in Ado-Ekiti. Justice Abimbola Awogboro of the Federal High Court in Ilorin, while granting the…

Police rescue three teenage boys abducted in Zamfara

The Zamfara State Police Command has neutralised two bandits and recovered explosive devices in the Bungudu Local Government Area of the state. In a statement released to newsmen on Tuesday, the spokesperson of the command, DSP Yazoo Abubakar said: “On…

NDLEA Rearrests ‘Dead’ Edo Drug Suspect Who Jumped Bail

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency has re-arrested a suspected drug trafficker, Ibrahim Yusuf Lawal, who allegedly jumped bail and was falsely declared dead by his wife in an affidavit submitted to a Federal High Court in Benin, Edo State.…

NSCDC intercepts 36 tonnes of lithium in Kwara

The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, Kwara State Command, says it has intercepted a truck with 36 tonnes of lithium along the Jebba Expressway, Okolowo Area of Ilorin. The NSCDC State Commandant, Abbas Nda-Mohammed, disclosed this to newsmen in…

Fake EFCC officer arraigned for impersonation in Abuja 

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Tuesday arraigned a man, Salifu Olije Mustapha, before the Federal Capital Territory High Court sitting in Kubwa, Abuja, for allegedly posing as an operative of the anti-graft agency and defrauding unsuspecting members of the…

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