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A five-man robbery gang, last weekend, lost its only weapon while struggling to snatch a vehicle from a middle-aged man in the Ikotun area of Lagos. The robbers reportedly accosted the owner of a Toyota Highlander (names withheld) at about 9pm, Sunday, as he was driving into his compound on
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The Police in Lagos have arrested a 42-year-old man, Alli Mustapha, for allegedly killing one of his customers, Idowu Maliki, in the Ikotun area of Lagos State. Mustapha had a shop at Imope Compound in Ikotun, where he sold petty goods to people in the community. The Niger State indigene was
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The Residents of Akoka Community in Lagos State vowed they will no longer pay electricity bills to the Eko Electricity Distribution Company until the power situation in the community improves. This resolution was reached at a Community Development Association meeting on Saturday, March 21, 2015. Part of the activities of the
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Tragedy struck in the Ajegunle, Apapa Area of Lagos State, after a 20-year-old hairdresser, Gift Wahab, stabbed her boyfriend, Ebi Amade, 28, to death. PUNCH Metro reported that the incident occurred at the couple’s residence on Fasasi Street, Ajegunle, Apapa, on Thursday, March 19. Punch correspondents gathered that the suspect, Wahab,
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Information reaching us indicates that Traders at the Computer Village Ikeja denied the Peoples Democratic Party campaign team access to the neighborhood this morning. The PDP team who attempted to set up campaign at the vicinity, drove in with three (3) trucks but were turned down as the traders resolutely
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By Ezekiel Akinbo The Non-Academic Staff Union (NASU) of the Lagos State University (LASU) chapter today, March 17, 2015 disrupted the convocation ceremony at the school campus in Ojo, Lagos. Addressing the press, Albert Agosu, Chairman of the Union, said, "the issue was borne out of the recklessness in the handling of
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An Orile-Agege Customary Court in Lagos on Tuesday dissolved the four-year-old marriage between one Modupeola Alabi and her husband, Taye, over constant battery, threat to life and lack of care. President of the court, Mr Adegboyega Omilola, said since the marriage had broken down irretrievably the court had no option
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Residents of Isawo in the Agric area of Ikorodu in Lagos have called on the police to collaborate with other security agencies to curtail pipeline vandalism and oil theft in the area. The community’s traditional ruler Oke Oko, Chief Musediku Ibrahim, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos that
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Armed men dressed in military uniform this afternoon attacked a bank in Lekki Phase 1. The dare-devil attack is believed to have left three police officers, three civilians dead while a fish seller was shot but was rushed to the hospital. Five other people who were hit by stray bullets
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Forty six-year-old the Chairman, National Union of Road Transport Workers, Yaba Unit, Babajide Dosunmu, a.k.a Mados, also beleived to be the Vice Chairman, Lagos Mainland branch of the NURTW, was reportedly shot dead at the back of his house at Queen Street in the Oyingbo area of Lagos State by
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