Author: Saint Augustine

…Presents cash gift to winner, first, second runners up The All Progressives Congress (APC) House of Representatives candidate for Awka North and South Federal Constituency, Hon. Emma Nweke (Nwachinemelu Awka), has sponsored an Ogene Music Competition for the creative and gifted youths of Awka North and South who are into Ogene music. The first phase of Ogene Music Competition Fides learnt was held at Mgbakwu Primary School’s field on the eighteenth of December 2018 while that of Awka South was held at Amawbia and at the end three best performed artists were picked from each local government. Those who emerged…

…Confirm one person dead, 16 others arrested Contrary to media reports, the Lagos State Police command has confirmed that only one person lost his life in the violence that erupted during the All Progressives Congress (APC) Governorship Flag-off rally held in Lagos few days ago. The Commissioner of Police Lagos State, CP Edgal Imohimi who made this disclosure while addressing journalists in Lagos yesterday said that the Lagos State Ambulance Service took four persons to the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH) at Ikeja and one of the leaders of NURTW, MC Oluomo to Eko Hospital. Edgal further clarified that…

…Dangote, Otedola, Sanusi, Ooni, others to attend Former Head of State, General Abdulsalam Abubakar (rtd), Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Mr. Boss Mustapha, and the Minister of Transportation, Rt. Hon. Rotimi Chibuike Amaechi, will be leading other stakeholders to the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) Maritime Awards scheduled to take place on Saturday, 12th January, 2019 at the Eko Hotels and Suites, Victoria Island, Lagos at 6pm. The Governors of Lagos, Ogun, Enugu, Ondo, Kaduna, Kebbi and Borno states as well as Honourable Ministers of the Federal Republic of Nigeria are also expected at the…

Eagle-eyed Air Peace all-female crew comprising Captain Sinmisola Ajibola, Senior First Officer Onohi Agboighale, Mojoko Ewane, Taiye Abbey, Victoria Ukpiaifo and Ngozi Ezeamaka recently frustrated an attempt by a middle-aged woman and her collaborators to traffic a three-day-old baby boy through the Port Harcourt Airport to Lagos. The suspect had booked Air Peace Port Harcourt-Lagos Flight P4 7393 on Sunday. During boarding, the Lead Crew of the flight, Mojoko Ewane observed that the suspect was handling the baby in an awkward manner and decided to question her. When she was questioned at the boarding door of the aircraft, the suspect…

Following a publication on pages 4 and 5 of the Punch Newspaper of Wednesday, January 9, 2019 with the headline, “CCTV footage exposes policemen who raided Lagos night club”, the Commissioner of Police Lagos State, Mr. Edgal Imohimi has directed that all the policemen involved in the operation be invited for questioning. A statement by the command’s Public Relations Officer, Chike Oti, Chief Superintendent of Police, disclosed that 13 out of the 19 officers that raided Lakers County night club in the Ikorodu area of the state had been arrested and were undergoing interrogation at the command’s X-Squad section while…

The Lagos State Police command on Wednesday destroyed psycho-active drugs and other substances worth over four hundred million Naira (N400,000,000) in the Ikorodu area of the state. Speaking shortly before the eventual burning of the substances, the Commissioner of Police Lagos state, Mr. Edgal Imohimi said that the substances were recovered by the police in the cause of raids of criminal hide outs and through other sources based on intelligence. Imohimi who gave the breakdown of the hard drugs and other substances to include Indian hemp, Cocaine, Tramadol, Codeine among others posited that the items were recovered between January 2018 and…

The authorities of the Lagos State Police command have declared one Mustapha Adekunle aka Seigo wanted for attempting to disrupt the All Progressives Congress (APC) rally held at Skypower Ground, Ikeja, Lagos yesterday. The said Mustapha Adekunle aka Seigo, an NURTW chieftain, came to the rally with a group of people and were identified at the entrance as supporters of the party. However, at the tail end of the event, Seigo and his group for a reason yet to be determined violently engaged other supporters of the party. In the ensuing melee, one MC Oluomo, another NURTW chieftain, was stabbed…

The Association of Nigerian Licensed Customs Agents (ANLCA) has blamed the rise in importation of illicit drugs, arms and ammunition into the country in recent times on the forthcoming general election even as it further blamed it on lack of integrity on the part of the politicians who want to win elections at all cost. The National Vice President of the association, Dr. Kayode Farinto who made this known in an interview with our correspondent in Lagos recently said that because the politicians want to win election either by hook or by crook, they end up engaging some youths who…

The Managing Partner, Maritime and Commercial Law Partners, Barr. Osuala Emmanuel Nwagbala has said that for the National Single Window project to succeed in Nigeria, there is need for an effective and efficient power supply otherwise it will end up in the realm of dreams. Nwagbara who stated this in an interview with Primetime Reporters in Lagos recently noted that power was still a very big issue I Nigeria adding that one cannot talk effectively about the Single Window technology without constant power supply. “Recently, one of the foreigners that addressed us at the Nigerian Bar Association conference said that…

…Fake Soldier, others arrested for unlawful possession of firearm The Lagos State Police command has arrested a 37 year old man identified as Sikiru Tanimowo for allegedly stealing a 4 year old boy, Abu Yusuf at Okokomaiko area of Lagos State. The Commissioner of Police Lagos State, CP Edgal Imohimi who disclosed this at press briefing in Lagos yesterday said that information was received from a credible source on the 6th day of January, 2019, at about 0955hrs that a man was seen moving around Otun Market Square in a suspicious manner, holding a little boy in his hand. According…