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Osun court grants four N250,000 bail for fighting

Four residents of Osun State were on Monday arraigned before a state Magistrates’ Court, sitting in Osogbo, the state capital, for allegations bordering on fighting in a pub, destruction of properties and theft. The defendants, Abdulgarfar Opeyemi, Michael Abayomi, Opadotun Taiwo and Azeez Abiodun, had appeared before a presiding magistrate, Dr Olusegun Ayilara, on five counts pressed against them by the police. The counts included conspiracy, assault, malicious damage, breach of peace and theft. Giving...

Three suspected cultists arraigned for causing panic in Lagos

Three men, identified as Wasiu Okanlawon 36, Kehinde Kareem 34, and Hammed Olatunji 42, were on Monday arraigned before a Lagos State Magistrate Court in Ebute-Metta on charges related to alleged cult activities in Mushin. The trio, alleged members of the notorious Aiye Confraternity, are facing four counts, bordering on conspiracy, grievous harm, causing public panic, and belonging to an unlawful society. The police prosecutor, Superintendent Jimoh Joseph, told the court that the defendants, along...

NSCDC hunts killers of Osun guard murdered at shopping complex

The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence, Osun State Command, on Monday, said it had begun an investigation to apprehend the killers of a night guard working at a shopping complex located along Station Road, Ikirun, Osun State. The actual period when the night guard, simply identified as Ibariba, was killed could not be immediately determined. But sources in Station Road, Ikirun, where the shopping complex where the deceased used to work is located, said he...

Gombe warns cassava farmers as poisoning kills one, 10 hospitalised

The Gombe State Commissioner for Health, Dr Habu Dahiru, has called upon cassava farmers to desist from selling products with high content of hydrogen cyanide following an identified death case and 10 others who are hospitalised in the state. The commissioner made this disclosure in a public advisory released by the Ministry of Health on cassava consumption in the state on Monday. Dahiru also appealed to the farmers to put humanity first, instead of the...

Police arrest 873 kidnap suspects in Kano

The Kano State Police Command, on Monday, confirmed that it arrested no fewer than 873 suspects so far for alleged robbery, kidnapping, and other crimes during the just-concluded nationwide protests. All the suspects, who were detained from across the state, were paraded before newsmen on Monday at the command’s  Bompai. The Commissioner of Police, Salma Dogo, who made the disclosure, said the arrests were made possible through the command’s efforts to maintain law and order,...

Prophetess, teacher arraigned for fake charm, N8m theft

A prophetess, Folake Olasode, 35, and a schoolteacher, Damilola Aboloyinijo, 31, were on Monday arraigned before a Lagos State Magistrate Court sitting in Tinubu for allegedly preparing a fake charm of protection and obtaining N8m from their victim. The duo are facing five counts of conspiracy, stealing, obtaining, unlawful assault, and breach of public peace, preferred against them by the police. The Prosecutor, Assistant Superintendent of Police Francis Igbinosa, told the court that Olasode and...

Wife may bag jail term for tearing husband’s passport at Lagos airport – NIS

A Nigerian woman named Favour Igiebor, who tore up her husband’s passport at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, could face a jail term as punishment for her actions if found guilty, according to the Nigeria Immigration Service Act of 2015 (as amended). The NIS had on Monday revealed that it had launched an investigation into the circumstances surrounding the destruction of a man’s passport by his wife, identified as Favour Igiebor, stating that she had...

Mohbad’s family opposes late singer’s anniversary event

The family of Ilerioluwa Oladimeji Aloba, popularly known as Mohbad, has appealed to organisations and individuals planning to celebrate the first anniversary of his death to suspend their plans. This was contained in a statement signed by Monisola Odumosu, a member of the family’s legal team and obtained by PUNCH Metro on Monday. The family expressed their desire to mourn their son in peace, without elaborate events that might affect their emotions. “It has come...

Two children, three others die in Abia auto crash

Two children and three other passengers were confirmed as casualties of a fatal auto crash on Sunday involving an Abia Line Network Sienna vehicle and a Mack truck near the Umuika Junction along the Enugu-Aba-Port Harcourt Expressway while the Sienna was going from Abakaliki in Ebonyi State to Aba in Abia State. The Abia State Police Command and the state command of the Federal Road Safety Corps confirmed the casualty figure on Monday at a...

LAGESC officials bust styrofoam warehouse in Lagos

Operatives of the Lagos State Environmental Sanitation Corps have uncovered a warehouse of banned styrofoam in the Idumota area of the state. The state Commissioner, Ministry of Environment and Water Resources, Tokunbo Wahab, revealed this in a video shared on X.com on Monday. He wrote, “Operatives of the Lagos State Environmental Sanitation Corps (KAI) discovered a styrofoam packs warehouse in Idumota. “The product has been confiscated and taken to the Taskforce Office for incineration.” This...