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The incident which happened on February 11, 2022, around 6:pm, according to eyewitnesses, was as a result of the female officer, Helen Onoja wanting to answer the call of a nature, an act that didn’t go well with her…
The Lagos State Police Command on Wednesday assured Lagos State residents to go about their daily activities without fear, saying it has deployed “massive” patrol teams in every nook and cranny of the state to forestall…
The war against corruption is set to get a big push in Lagos State, with the appointment of a chairman for the Public Complaints and Anti-Corruption Commission. Governor Babajide Olusola Sanwo-Olu, who signed the law…
There are reports that Russian forces have taken patients and medical staff of a hospital in the besieged Ukrainian city of Mariupol as hostages. According to the BBC, Mariupol’s deputy mayor Sergei Orlov said: We…
A lady simply identified as Khadijat has recounted how she was left battered and bruised after boarding a bus filled with robbers at GB Iyana Ipaja, Lagos. Khadijah who is lawyer and caterer via Instagram handle is…
The Lagos State Police Command has arrested and arraigned the prime suspect who distributed kegs of petrol as souvenirs at a party held at Havilah Events Centre, Victoria Island on March 4, 2022. This was disclosed in a…
The European Union has this morning formally agreed to the fourth package of sanctions, including an asset freeze and travel ban on Roman Abramovich. The full details are expected to be published in the Journal of the…
A 14-year-old babysitter, Chiamaka Odo, has confessed to killing her mistress’ son, Jayden Osokolo, in Lagos State. Speaking on behalf of the state Commissioner of Police, Abiodun Alabi, the spokesperson for the…
Russian airstrikes on the Kyiv apartment building leave two people dead. Two powerful explosions rocked the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv before dawn on Tuesday. Emergency services said two people died when an apartment…
The International Court of Justice (ICJ) has announced that it will rule this Wednesday in the case brought by Ukraine that Russia falsely justified its invasion by making accusations that Ukraine had engaged in…
The national grid, on Monday, experienced its second collapse in 2022 resulting in blackout across the country. The states affected include Lagos, Enugu, Kaduna, Abia, Anambra, Ebonyi, Enugu, and Imo States, among…
Ukrainian authorities have denied accusations by the Russians after a Ukrainian missile allegedly exploded in the separatist-controlled city of Donetsk killing 20 civilians, Lorenzo Tondo reports. On Monday, Russian…
The Lekki Concession Company on Monday announced the resumption of toll operations at the Lekki-Ikoyi Link Bridge. Toll operation is to resume on April 1st according to notices sent to road users and a statement issued…
Russian forces have damaged a high-voltage line connecting Ukraine’s Chernobyl nuclear power plant to the power grid, Ukraine’s state energy company Ukrenergo said. The head of Ukrenergo, Volodymyr Kudrytskiy, said the…
Some leaders of the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW) at the national body and elders of the union in Lagos State have declared their support for embattled Lagos Chairman Alhaji Musiliu Akinsanya (aka MC…
The Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, has extended its warning strike for another two months. The decision to extend the strike was taken at the union’s National Executive Council, NEC meeting held in Abuja…
Russia’s defence ministry has admitted responsibility for the rocket attack on the International Centre for Peacekeeping & Security, a military base, near Lviv on Sunday. It said that the facility in Yavoriv was being…
The cyber hacking group Anonymous has published a message specifically designed to reach Russian citizens, allegedly urging Russians to rise up against Putin and remove him from power. According to a translation offered…
Ukraine’s minister of defence, Oleksii Reznikov, has called Russia’s missile strikes on the International Centre for Peacekeeping and Security a “terrorist attack”. Reznikov added that “foreign instructors” work at the…
A frozen goods warehouse caught fire due to Russian shelling in Brovary district, northeast of Kyiv, according to Ukraine’s interior ministry. The shelling took place in the village of Kvitneve at about 3.30 am local…
