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Court Sets April 29 To Hear Al-Mustapha’s Death Sentence Appeal
The Court of Appeal sitting in Lagos has fixed April 29 for the hearing of the appeal filed by Hamza Al-Mustapha, former Chief Security Officer to late Sani Abacha; and Lateef Sofolahan, former Personal Assistant to late Kudirat Abiola. Related posts: Mustapha, Sofolahan appeal death sentence Al-Mustapha’s Mother Dead at 70 “Nigeria should appeal against
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Nigeria Police College: The Shame Of A Nation
In the Chinese picture-letter alphabet, the symbol for crisis is a combination of two characters – one meaning “danger” and the other “opportunity.” You can look at it either way. Nigeria is beset with smorgasbord of problems. The same analogy of the Chinese picture-letter alphabet can be applied to the Nigerian case. Related posts: US
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Traffic Law: Fashola Arrests Police Officer Riding Okada
The Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babatunde Fashola yesterday arrested a police officer, identified as Ebahan Johnson, who violated the new traffic law by riding his 100 CC commercial motorcycle popularly called Okada on the Agege Motor Road, Ikeja. Related posts: Police set to release Cynthia’s corpse on Monday after Autopsy ….Governor Fashola declines Oba’s chieftaincy
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Fuel subsidy trial: Ahmadu Ali’s son, others for trial Nov 12
A Lagos High Court sitting in Ikeja has fixed November 12, 2012 for the trial of Mamman Ali, the son of the former national chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, Ahmadu Ali, standing trial alongside others over alleged stealing of fuel subsidy funds. Related posts: Fuel subsidy: Presidential adviser stands as surety for accused
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25-year old human parts seller nabbed in Lagos
Uneasy calm now pervades the air as residents of Shagamu Road, Ikorodu, Lagos, are still in shock over the recent arrest of a 25-year-old man who specialises in exhuming and selling human parts for rituals. Frail looking Rahaman Abdul was caught with a fresh human head in a cemetery along Shagamu Road Ikorodu, on October
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Nigeria: Lagos Sunday Robbery – Suspects Open up, Make Shocking Revelations
Operatives of the Special Anti Robbery Squad have arrested two persons for their alleged connivance in the massive robbery attacks two Sundays ago in Lagos, which left three policemen and some civilians dead, with several others wounded. A one-year-old baby was also hit by bullets during their dare-devil operation which lasted for hours. Related posts:
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Morgue Staff Docked For Brutalizing Photo Journalist
Bayo Ogunshola, a mortuary staff of the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH) has been docked at a Magistrate Court in Ikeja Lagos for assaulting a photo journalist, Benedict Uwalaka. Mr. Uwalaka a photo journalist with Leadership newspaper was assaulted at the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH) on Thursday 9 August while covering the
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Fuel subsidy: Presidential adviser stands as surety for accused
A presidential aide, Mariam Ali, on Wednesday at an Ikeja High Court stood surety for one of the oil marketers charged with the fuel subsidy scam. Ali stood surety for Christian Taylor, a Sierra Leonean, who was arraigned along with Nasamu Ali, her son, before Justice Adeniyi Onigbanjo on a three-count charge of conspiracy and
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Subsidy scam: Two more oil marketers arraigned
Two more oil marketers, Oluwaseun Ogunbambo and Habila Theck and their company, Fargo Petroleum and Gas Limited, were yesterday arraigned at an Ikeja High Court for fraudulent practices in the importation of fuel worth about N976m. Related posts: Wanted oil marketers refuse to surrender to EFCC Subsidy scam: How oil dealers used ‘dead’ vessel to
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Some Dana crash victims were alive in the fire – Pathologist
There are reasons to believe that some victims of the recent Dana plane crash were alive in the fire, the Lagos State Chief Medical Examiner, Prof. John Obafunwa, told a coroner sitting at the Ikeja High Court, on Wednesday. Related posts: Raw Video Footage of the Dana Plane Crash in Lagos Dana Crash Update: FG
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Bakare to Jonathan: Resign now
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