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Ogun State · Ogun StateThe Governor of Ogun State, Dapo Abiodun, on Thursday, unveiled surveillance drones acquired by the state to be deployed on the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway. Abiodun said the drones, to be operated by trained personnel of the Nigeria Police Force, Department of Stata Service and the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, would help to tackle criminalSee the Story
Ogun acquires 25 vans, mans Lagos-Ibadan Expressway with
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United States · United StatesTHE leadership of the National Association of Nigerian Students has petitioned the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, George Akume, demanding the arrest and prosecution of the factional President of NANS, Pedro Obi, over the alleged impersonation of NANS President, Lucky Emonefe. Emonefe, on Thursday, led hundreds of students on a solidarity rally toSee the Story
NANS seeks SGF’s intervention in leadership crisis
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Lagos, Lagos · LagosThe Chairman, Poultry Association of Nigeria, Lagos State Chapter, Mojeed Iyiola, has said the state government’s maize palliative to members of the association made a positive impact on the sector. Iyiola said this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria on Thursday in Lagos. “We received about 150,000 tons of maize in FebruarySee the Story
Maize release by Lagos lowered egg price –PAN
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United States · United StatesThe immediate-past governor of Anambra State, Willie Obiano, on Thursday, failed in his bid to quash the N4bn theft charges filed against him by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission. Justice Inyang Ekwo of the Federal High Court in Abuja dismissed the preliminary objection filed by Obiano to challenge the powers of the EFCC toSee the Story
N4bn theft: Court releases Obiano’s passport for medical trip
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Lagos, Lagos · LagosThe Nigeria Police on Thursday arraigned a 47-year-old man, Tokunbo Daramola, before the Ebute-Metta Chief Magistrate’s Court, in Lagos, over alleged N27.5m fraud. Daramola was arraigned on a count of obtaining by false pretence, preferred against him by the police. The prosecutor, Assistant Superintendent of Police Ben Ekundayo, told the court that the defendant committedSee the Story
Man arraigned for allegedly defrauding firm of N27.5m
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United States · United StatesA 43-year-old man simply identified as Obiefule Nwagha is now in custody for allegedly conveying 1,040 tons of Indian hemp at the Ilufe waterside jetty at the Alaba International Market, Ojo, in Lagos State. PUNCH Metro gathered that the incident occurred on April 17 at about 4:30 p.m. A police source from the division whoSee the Story
Man in custody for trafficking 1,040 illicit drugs
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United States · United StatesThe Nigeria Correctional Service has refuted claims that controversial cross-dresser, Idris Okuneye aka Bobrisky, who was handed a six-month prison sentence over abuse of the naira notes, was moved from the Ikoyi custodial centre to its other facility in Kirikiri, Lagos State. Bobrisky was reported to have been discreetly transferred to Kirikiri Prison last weekendSee the Story
Bobrisky didn’t commit capital offence, still in Ikoyi prison – Officials
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United States · United StatesThe residents of Ìrele community in the Ìrele Local Government Area of Ondo State have raised the alarm over the rising attacks on the community, where residents were claimed to have sustained varying degrees of injury and destruction of farmlands by suspected hoodlums. Some of the residents who spoke with PUNCH Metro in separate telephoneSee the Story
Ondo community laments rising hoodlum attacks
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