A suspected dynamite explosion rocked the secretariat building in the early hours of Monday, around 1am, shattering windows and doors, and causing significant property damage, according to The PUNCH. Explosion has reportedly rocked the secretariat of the Action People’s Party along the GRA axis of Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital. A suspected dynamite explosion rocked the secretariat building in the early hours of Monday, around 1am, shattering windows and doors, and causing significant property...
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The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency has announced the recovery of a multi-billion naira worth of cocaine concealed in heavy-duty automobile pivot shafts, and Ghanaian fabric, Kente, by its operatives in a nationwide intelligence-led operation. PUNCH Metro learnt in a statement released on Sunday by the Director, Media & Advocacy, Femi Babafemi, that the NDLEA intercepted and seized 12.814kg of cocaine in two shipments at a courier firm in Lagos, 10kg of Loud (synthetic cannabis)...
The members of Operation Safe Haven stationed at the Lere community in the Tafawa Balewa Local Government Area of Bauchi State, on Tuesday, killed a resident of the community, Habibu Aminu, and injured other youths during a confrontation. The Bauchi State Police Public Relations Officer, Ahmed Wakil, said the incident happened at a checkpoint when the officers, after a misunderstanding, opened fire at the youths who were coming back from a political campaign rally at...
A 41-year-old woman, Adenike Salami, was arraigned on Friday before the Ebute-Metta Magistrate Court in Lagos State on charges of forging an airline ticket and fraudulently obtaining $2,500. Salami, who appeared before Magistrate Waliu Salami, is facing three counts of conspiracy, fraud, and forgery, brought against her by the police. The prosecutor informed the court that the defendant, along with others who are still at large, conspired to commit the alleged offences. “The defendant, Adenike...
The Lagos State Police Command, on Sunday, said it had begun an investigation into the yet-to-be-identified 25-year-old contract employee, who died after he jumped into an iron melting pot of his company. The command’s spokesperson, SP Benjamin Hundeyin, while confirming the incident to the News Agency of Nigeria, said the safety officer of the company, whose name also was not mentioned, reported the case to the Sagamu Road Police Division on August 3, at about...
The Anambra State Police Command on Sunday said it had begun a search for the yet-to-be-identified gunmen who abducted three persons along the Nkpologwu-Akpo Road, Nkpologwu, in the Aguata Local Government Area of the state. The police reaction was coming after the heavily armed assailants had kidnapped the three men at different locations of the community, earlier in the morning. PUNCH Metro gathered that the victims, based outside Anambra, had just returned to attend an...
Some staff members of the global electronics maker, LG Electronics, at Abule Osun, Trade Fair, Lagos State were apprehended for allegedly stealing some foreign currencies belonging to their employers after a fire engulfed the store in the early hours of Sunday. Goods worth billions of naira were destroyed in the incident that started some minutes past midnight. The Lagos State Emergency Management Agency in a statement through its Head of Public Affairs Unit, Nosa Okunbor,...
A 61-year-old retiree, Rotimi Okomeh, has accused The Redeemed Evangelical Mission of not fixing her three-bedroom home at 5 Mobil Road, Satellite Town, Lagos State after the church tore down the walls to convert it to a hall for religious services. Okomeh told PUNCH Metro that the church failed to restore the apartment to its original state and also neglected to pay nine months of outstanding rent, despite an agreement with its pastors to address...
Two truck drivers, Azeez Hassan and Musa Mohammed, have been granted N1m bail each after their arraignment before a Lagos State Magistrate Court for allegedly diverting 28,000 tons of cashew nuts worth N28m. PUNCH Metro gathered that Hassan, 41, and Mohammed, 36, were, on Friday, arraigned before the Ebute-Metta Magistrate Court. The truck drivers whose addresses were not given are facing three counts bordering on conspiracy diversion and stealing preferred against them by the police....
No fewer than seven persons from the same family in the Runjin Barmo village of Kajiji District in the Shagari Local Government Area of Sokoto have reportedly died as a result of consumption of contaminated cassava delicacy. This is contained in a statement signed by the Information Officer, Sokoto State Ministry of Health, Nura Bello, on behalf of the Commissioner for Health, Hajiya Asabe Balarabe, on Sunday evening. The statement revealed that the village head...