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Probe begins as worker dies after jumping into melting pot

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...

Police hunt abductors of three in Anambra community

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...

Workers nabbed as fire guts multibillion naira LG warehouse

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,...

Lagos retiree accuses church of demolishing apartment, seeks help

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 granted N2m bail for stealing cashew nuts

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....

Seven family members die of food poisoning in Sokoto

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...

Burning of RCCG building cowardly, says Niger gov

Niger State Governor, Umaru Bago, has condemned the burning of the church building of the Redeemed Christian Church of God by suspected hoodlums in Kontagora town. Bago, in a statement by his Special Adviser on Print Media, Aisha Wakaso, issued on Sunday in Minna, the state capital described the attack on the church “as mindless and cowardly.” The News Agency of Nigeria reports that suspected hoodlums in the early hours of Saturday looted items and...

  Globally subsidies, whether for food, transportation, energy or housing, are part of good governance. So, the issue is not subsidies but who benefit from them.   In Nigeria, subsidies are primarily of the rich, by the rich and for the rich.   I will highlight a few, how they are being manipulated and how huge sums of money can be recovered not just to subsidize fuel but also provide funds for development.    ...

Seven family members die of food poisoning in Sokoto

At least seven persons from the same family in Runjin Barmo village of Kajiji District in Shagari Local Government Area of Sokoto State have reportedly died as a result of consumption of contaminated cassava delicacy. This is contained in a statement signed and made available by the Information Officer, State Ministry of Health, Nura Bello, on behalf of the state Commissioner for Health on Sunday evening. The statement revealed that the village head of the...

Omoyele Sowore, a human rights activist and Convener of the #RevolutionNow Movement, has issued a stern warning that all individuals responsible for the attacks and killings of peaceful protesters during the #EndBadGovernance demonstrations will be made to pay dearly for their actions. Sowore condemned the unjust treatment of peaceful protesters, who were attacked, killed, arrested, and detained during the 10-day nationwide protest against hunger, hardship, and bad governance under President Bola Tinubu’s administration.   He...