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Point News247 reports that aYaba Magistrates’ court sitting in Lagos State, Southwest Nigeria has ordered that a Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) driver, Andrew Nice Omininikoron, be remanded for 30 days at the Ikoyi custodial centre for the alleged murder of Oluwabamise Ayanwole. Bamise, a 22-year-old Fashion Designer, went missing after boarding a Lagos BRT vehicle and her corpse was later found with some body parts allegedly missing. The court ordered that Omininikoron, the BRT driver, be remanded following an application by the police on Friday. This is a developing story…

Point News247 reports that the Lagos State Government has suspended the operations of the National Union of Road Transport Workers Union (NURTW) from the State’s parks.Gatekeepers News reports that this suspension follows the recent claims and counterclaims over the control of the union. The Commissioner of Information & Strategy, Gbenga Omotoso who announced the suspension in a statement said that “The Government has a duty to ensure the safety of lives and property of all Lagosians and visitors.” The statement read, “… there is an urgent need to douse the unnecessary tension generated by the leadership tussle in the NURTW…

Point News247 reports that a 13-year-old girl was brutally gang raped in Lagos State, south west Nigeria. A medical doctor, Mistura Shogunle, on Wednesday, narrated how a 13-year-old girl was allegedly gang-raped by seven men in her neighbourhood. Shogunle testified before the Ikeja Domestic Violence and Sexual Offences Court at the trial of a 20-year-old fashion designer, Rasheed Fashola. Fashola who is being charged for conspiracy and defilement of a child had pleaded not guilty to the two-count charge. Led in evidence by the state counsel, Olasunbo Abiodun-Muniru, Doctor Shogunle, working at the Mirabel Centre (a sexual assault referral centre),…

Point News247 reports that the officers of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have arrested a notorious drug dealer at Nukai market, along Jalingo-Wukari road in the Taraba state capital, Jalingo, Micha Godwin, during which the anti-narcotic officers came under attack and at least seven of them were injured and one of their vehicles damaged. Despite the attack, the officers however managed to arrest their target after recovering some quantities of illicit drugs from the suspect and thereafter retreated to take the wounded to the hospital for treatment. Following intelligence, the operatives on Tuesday 8th March stormed the market…

The Eko Electricity Distribution Company has announced that there would be planned power outages across Lagos State between 7th to 13th March 2022. Point News247 reports that this disclosure was made by the company in a statement on Monday afternoon. The power outage comes at a period of low power and fuel supply which has plagued Nigerian consumers for the past weeks. Eko Electricity said in the statement that customers should be notified of a planned outage that will take place between 7th to 13th March 2022. “The essence of the outage is to carry out qualitative maintenance, upgrade and…

Police in Oyo State have arrested two teenage brothers, Waliu Abd Razaq and Iliaz Abdul Razaq alongside their father, AbdulRasaq Padun, for the abduction and murder of an 8-year-old boy, Raheem Bamimore. Point News247 reports that the boy who was declared missing on Friday afternoon, March 4, 2022, in Saki town, was found dead in an uncompleted building along Ogbooro road, in Al-Barka area on Sunday, March 6. It was gathered that Raheem came back home from school around 12:30pm on that fateful Friday, dropped his backpack and rushed out. His parents had declared him missing after he didn’t return…

The Lagos State commissioner of police, Abiodun Alabi, has directed all area commanders and Divisional Police Officers to beef up security and maintain visibility in their area of coverage. Point News247 reports that this is coming on the heels of the indefinite suspension of the Lagos State Chapter Chairman of the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW) Musiliu Akinsanya, popularly called MC Oluomo, over alleged misconduct, insubordination, and inciting members of the state chapter against the apex body. The state police boss in an interview with Channels Television on Thursday said a directive has been given on the deployment…

To understand the new politics stance and other pro nationals of recent times, we should look to Silicon Valley and the quantified movement of the latest generation. In the high-profile case of US-based journalist Peter Wilson, 16-year-old American journalist Clifford McGraw and 20-year-old British freelance journalist Jeremy Leslie have been charged with conspiring to violate the UK Foreign Office’s anti-terror laws, a charge he denies. On Monday, UK attorney Andy McDonald revealed that he had spoken. “Few worry about catching Covid anymore, as it’s just a matter of time before they do,” says Tea, a teacher at a school for…

To understand the new politics stance and other pro nationals of recent times, we should look to Silicon Valley and the quantified movement of the latest generation. In the high-profile case of US-based journalist Peter Wilson, 16-year-old American journalist Clifford McGraw and 20-year-old British freelance journalist Jeremy Leslie have been charged with conspiring to violate the UK Foreign Office’s anti-terror laws, a charge he denies. On Monday, UK attorney Andy McDonald revealed that he had spoken. “Few worry about catching Covid anymore, as it’s just a matter of time before they do,” says Tea, a teacher at a school for…

To understand the new politics stance and other pro nationals of recent times, we should look to Silicon Valley and the quantified movement of the latest generation. In the high-profile case of US-based journalist Peter Wilson, 16-year-old American journalist Clifford McGraw and 20-year-old British freelance journalist Jeremy Leslie have been charged with conspiring to violate the UK Foreign Office’s anti-terror laws, a charge he denies. On Monday, UK attorney Andy McDonald revealed that he had spoken. “Few worry about catching Covid anymore, as it’s just a matter of time before they do,” says Tea, a teacher at a school for…