Traders Shola Oyeyipo: Grumble as Tinubu’s Daughter Succeeds Grandmother

 Alhaja Abibatu Mogaji

It was a shock they never prepared for. Gathering at the home of their late leader,  Alhaja Abibatu Mogaji, who until her death on June 14 at the age of 97, was the President-General, Association of Nigerian Market Women and Men, majority of them had only come to mourn their leader, for whom the family was holding the eighth-day fidau, a religious ritual for departed Muslims.

Like so many dignitaries and others from different spectrums of the society, who had converged on the late Mogaji’s Alausa, Ikeja home to take part in the eighth-day remembrance prayers for the deceased, the least the traders had expected was that on that Sunday, they would get a new leader.

Police in Kano Arrest 3,241 Suspected Criminals

Kano State Police Commissioner, Musa Daura

Kano State Police Command has disclosed that it had carried out series of raids at various criminals’ hideouts and black spots and successfully arrested 3,241 suspects in the last six months.

The police command explained that among those arrested , 2,741 were charged to court over an exhibits recovered from them,  which include 39 knives, 15 swords and seven locally made pistols and large quantity of Indian hemp.

EXCLUSIVE: Police Arrest Man for Allegedly Kidnapping, Raping UNILAG Student

The suspect

Two months after 22-year-old Babajide Bashorun, allegedly kidnapped, raped and then took naked pictures of his victim, an undergraduate of University of Lagos (UNILAG), which he later posted on the internet, he was arrested by the Adeniji Adele Division of the Lagos State Police Command.

This is just as the police also mounted a manhunt for the two accomplices, both undergraduates of UNILAG; 400-level students of Architecture, Aje Mayowa and  Babajide Ademuyiwa.

The suspects has since been charged to Tinubu Court 5, Lagos lsland and he was charged on six counts including kidnapping, rape, conspiracy, and attempt to commit murder, indecent assault, and assault occasioning harm.

Explosion Rocks Atlas Cove as Suspects Vandalise NNPC Pipelines

An early morning explosion rocked the Akinbo Jetty, Ilado area, close to Atlas Cove area of Apapa yesterday when some suspected pipelines vandals attempted to siphon petroleum products from the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) pipelines in the area.

It was gathered that the suspects however left behind their boats and over 200 jerrycans when the pipeline valve exploded, and fled in their bid to evade arrest.

This is coming just as the Senate President, David Mark, recently recommended the death penalty for oil thieves. His call was influenced by the alarming spate of crude oil theft that has beguiled the nation of late.

EXCLUSIVE: Anti-Terrorist Group Arrests 15 Suspects in Lagos, Ogun Area

As part of concerted efforts to checkmate the influx of terrorism in the South-west region especially in Lagos, the Anti-Terrorist Group (ATG), a counter-terrorism unit of the Nigerian Army, has arrested over 15 suspected terrorists in both Lagos and Ogun States within the last four months.

The General Officer Commanding (GOC), 81 Division of the Nigerian Army, whose Area Of Responsibility (AOR) spans both Lagos and Ogun, Major General Obi Umahi, made this disclosure yesterday at the command's headquarters, Kofo Abayomi, Victoria Island, Lagos, while briefing defence correspondents on security matters.