The Ikenne township in the Ikenne Local Government area of Ogun State was for a better part of Saturday engulfed in a crisis as some youth insisted on celebrating the annual Oro festival despite the government’s ban. PUNCH Metro gathered that the crisis had been building for some days now with the youths holding protests in the town and telling whoever cared that they would celebrate the annual festival with or without the government’s approval....
The Federal High Court in Lagos on Friday sentenced a Brazil-based Nigerian drug baron, Christian Anyanwu, to 16 years imprisonment for trafficking 1.40 kilograms of methamphetamine. The court also convicted a 35-year-old freight agent, Omolara Salako, for her role in the illegal activity. The convicts were first arraigned before Justice Yelim Bogoro, by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, sometime in May 2023, on five counts. The charges included conspiracy, unlawful exportation, and non-declaration of...
The Nigerian Navy Outpost Koluama has given free medical services to over 1,000 residents of the Koluama II community in Southern Ijaw Local Government Area of Bayelsa State. The Commanding Officer, Naval Outpost, Koluama II, Stephen Agwai, said during the exercise on Saturday, that the essence of the free medical service was to promote cooperation with the host community. The medical services included checkup, consultations, health education, distribution of insecticide-treated nets and medication amongst others....
Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency have recovered parcels of cocaine weighing 1.20 kilograms from a Spain-based businessman, Francis Akajiobi, at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Ikeja, Lagos State. Akajiobi, a 50-year-old man, had concealed the cocaine in the soles of a pair of black sandals he was wearing while attempting to board a flight to Madrid. A statement by the agency’s spokesperson, Femi Babafemi, on Sunday, said Akajiobi confessed that he was...
The Lagos State Task Force said its officials arrested 124 suspects during multiple raids of criminal hideouts across the state as part of its efforts to restore sanity across the state. The raid, according to a statement made available to PUNCH Metro on Sunday by the Director of Press and Public Affairs of the agency, Gbadeyan Abdulraheem, was carried out on Saturday midnight and was led by the agency’s chairman, CSP Adetayo Akerele. Abdulraheem noted...
The Ogun State Police Command has arrested a 25-year-old woman, identified as Yetunde Gbadebo, for attempting to sell her three-year-old daughter on Aladiye Street in Sagamu. Our correspondent gathered on Sunday that the incident occurred at about 10:00 on July 25, 2024. PUNCH Metro learnt from a police source at the command that the suspect was caught while negotiating a N700,000 price for the toddler with a 38-year-old man identified as Sunday None. A team...
No fewer than 30 policemen have been accused of leading hoodlums suspected to be landgrabbers to demolish the property of a real estate company in the Okpanam community, in the Oshimili North Local Government Area of Delta State. PUNCH Metro gathered that the armed policemen and the landgrabbers, who were said to be acting on the order of a landgrabber identified simply as Okeke, aka Ogidi, invaded the premises with bulldozers around 1 am to...
A High Court sitting at Kwale, Delta State has sentenced a man, Efajemue Israel Aziakpono, to six and 10 years imprisonment, respectively, for the offences of conspiracy to commit arson and arson. The court presided by Justice O.F. Enenmo convicted and sentenced Aziakpono to 16 years imprisonment for the offences, sentences which would run concurrently. The two other defendants charged alongside the convict were discharged and acquited on both counts. The three defendants, namely, Efajemue...
A relative of the 17-year-old girl who was allegedly raped by a police officer at the Ogudu Area H Command, identified only as Anderson, has accused the suspect’s family of pressuring the survivor’s mother, Aramida Olupona, to forgive the accused officer. Anderson revealed this information to our correspondent during a phone interview on Saturday. Recall that during a telephone interview with City Round on Friday, the mother of the teenager, Olupona, said, “Officer Owolabi is...
Gunmen suspected to be hoodlums have reportedly attacked a Nigeria Customs Service patrol base in Koko, Kebbi State killing one officer and abducting one other in the process. A press statement made available to newsmen on Sunday evening by the Public Relations Officer, Kebbi Area Command, Mohammed Tajuddeen Salisu, said the incident occurred on Thursday. “With deep regret, we announce a distressing incident which occurred at our Koko Besse patrol base on Thursday, July 25,...
