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In a bitter twist of fate, the gunmen who invaded a Medium Security Custodial Centre in Jos, Plateau State, have been trapped by security operatives who are currently at the prison premises. Point News247 reports that some criminal elements had stormed the facility on Sunday evening with sophisticated weapons and were shooting sporadically at the premises. A statement by the spokesman of the Nigeria Correctional Service (NCoS), C.C. Francis Enobore, said the gunmen have been trapped following heavy fire power of security operatives who immediately cordoned the yard. The statement reads; “The Medium Security Custodial Centre in Jos, Plateau State…

Sunday morning of November 28 is a day that many would not forget as it will remind them of what they lost. Point News247 reports that some homeowners in Festac Phase 2 woke up to their houses being demolished, barely a day after an article announced that the Federal Housing Authority (FHA) will soon begin mass demolition of buildings without approval in Festac Town. Facebook user, Angel Nkiru took to her page to share photos of houses that have been brought down. She wrote: “Got a bad news this morning. “I am there and I’m crying because I have friends…

In preparation for the yuletide, the Ogun State Police Command has observed, with concerns, that most of the vehicles and motorcycles being used in carrying out criminal activities across the State are mostly unregistered. Point News247 reports that in order to ensure the safety of lives and property during the Christmas season, the Ogun State Commissioner of Police, Lanre Bankole, has directed that anybody plying the road with unregistered vehicles and motorcycles in any part of the state, should be arrested and charged to court. In a statement signed by its Spokesman, DSP Abimbola Oyeyemi, the Command stated that some…

With so much controversy surrounding the Lagos EndSARS panel report, human rights activist and a member of the Lagos panel, Ebun-Olu Adegboruwa (SAN), has said that the EndSARS panels set up by state governments across the country are legal and can probe the brutality and extrajudicial killings committed by members of the Nigeria Police Force and the Nigerian Army. Point News247 reports that the senior advocate insists that the judicial panels were set up at the behest of the Federal Government, through the National Economic Council (NEC), and so, cannot be termed illegal because the findings of some of the…

Some airport officials caught extorting a passenger at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos, have been suspended by the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN). Point News247 reports that theFAAN disclosed this in a statement on its official Facebook page signed by the General Manager, Corporate Affairs, Henrietta Yakubu, on Saturday. The statement noted that the officials are staff of the Aviation Security and Customer Service departments of FAAN, while the On Duty Cards of their accomplice from the Nigerian Immigration Service had been withdrawn. The statement read, “In line with the Management’s determination to rid the nation’s airport of…

Reports reaching Point News247 indicates that there was pandemonium as armed EFCC agents on Saturday night stripped, robbed and shot repeatedly to traumatised guests at Conference Hotels, part of a luxury accommodation chain run by former Governor Gbenga Daniel in Abeokuta, witnesses said. The officers reportedly arrived just before midnight on Saturday and operated well into the early hours of Sunday morning, witnesses said. They forcibly broke into guest rooms unannounced and stripped them of any dignity, Peoples Gazette heard, in a description that matches the agency’s recent descent into conduct bereft civil liberties considerations. Scores of guests were said…

The Director-General, Standard Organisation of Nigeria (SON), Mallam Farouk Salim, has charged standards agencies in Africa to harmonise standards and broker mutual agreements to ensure the success of the Africa Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA). Point News247 reports that Salim gave the advice recently in a statement at the opening ceremony of the African Organisation for Standardisation (ARSO) 65th Council meeting in Accra. He also urged them to promote faster adoption of the continental standards to facilitate movement of goods across African borders and with the rest of the world without inhibition. This, Salim said, would ensure that standards were…

The Ugandan government has lost its major airport to China for failing to repay a loan, after the government failed to reverse a loan agreement with the Chinese which had repayment conditions of attaching its only international airport. Point News247 reports that the lenders in China rejected Uganda’s request to re-negotiate ‘toxic clauses’ in the $200m (Shs713b) loan picked six years ago to expand Entebbe International Airport. Entebbe International Airport and other Ugandan assets were attached and agreed to be taken over by Chinese lenders upon arbitration of the loan. Some of the unfavourable provisions in the loan agreement that…

The Zamfara State Police Command has arrested a 30-year-old woman while trying to convey 991 ammunition to the camp of a notorious bandit leader on security agents’ wanted list. Point News247 reports that the suspect identified as Fatima Lawali, was on her way from Sokoto to deliver the weapons to Ado Alero, a notorious bandit hibernating in the forest along Zamfara, when she was arrested at Gada Biyu area in Bungudu LGA of Zamfara State. The Commissioner of Police in the state, CP Ayuba N. Elkanah, paraded the suspect along with others on Friday at the state command headquarters on…

Controversial Islamic cleric, Sheikh Ahmad Gumi, has once again lashed out at calls for bandits to be declared terrorists, saying even if the federal government decides to make the decision, it won’t change anything. Point News247 reports that this remark was made in a statement by Malam Tukur Mamu, the Dan-Iyan Fika and Media Consultant to Sheikh Gumi, the Muslim scholar said: “I think the Federal Government has succumbed to media blackmail by a section of the country. It will not have any practical value because even before the declaration they are being fought and treated as terrorists.” “So it’s…