Kate and Prince William Welcome Heir today, the Prince of Cambridge

Finally, hours after she went into labour, Catherine, the Duchess of Cambridge and 
husband Prince William today, welcomed their first child, a boy.  born at 4:24 p.m 
he weighs 8 pounds 6 ounces and would spend the night at the hospital in London 
where his father was born years ago.

He also automatically assumes the title His Royal Highness and would be known as 
Prince of Cambridge. But that is not his name anyway, that would be given by his
 family probably tomorrow. Congrats to the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge.

EXCLUSIVE: CP Lagos threatens to sanction DPO, Corporal over woman knocked down by policeman

Lagos PRO, Braide 

The Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Mr Umar Manko yesterday, said the Police Corporal who knocked down a woman and her baby down while driving against traffic last month along the Apapa/Oshodi expressway, was being probed alongside the Divisional Police Officer in-charge of Festac, Ibrahim Zango, who reportedly sent the policeman on errand. If found guilty at the end of on-going investigation, the command's boss threatened that the DPO and Corporal would face the consequences.

This is just as doctors at the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital, Idi-Araba are still battling to resuscitate the victim,Mrs Taskirat Anjolaiya , a teacher at the Ansar-Ud-Deen Primary School, who sustained pelvic fracture and brain injury . On the other hand , her baby, Amarah, who sustained a broken jaw was reportedly responding to treatment.

Passenger Slumps, Dies at Lagos Airport

Lagos airport

A middle-aged male passenger  Sunday slumped and died at the General Aviation Terminal (GAT) of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos on his way to Owerri. The deceased had arrived to the airport with his wife and his brother from London and was to board a domestic flight to Owerri when he slumped and died.

Sources said the deceased was a diabetic patient who was wheeled out of the aircraft at the international terminal on his arrival from London but on arrival at the GAT, he insisted that he would walk and as he walked to the check-in area, he slumped and died.

EXCLUSIVE: EFCC Arrests Suspect Over 200, 000 Dollars Fraud

IG, MOHAMMED ABUBAKAR 

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), has arrested one Dr Princewell  Chukwueze, over alleged serial scam of more than to $200, 000 USD and recovered fake $15,000 USD from him.

This was contained in a statement signed by its spokesman Mr Wilson Uwujaren, and according to the statement, Chukwueze was arrested in Abuja on Friday by its operatives after more than two months’ frantic manhunt for him.  

EXCLUSIVE: How We Planned and Kidnapped Briton-Suspect

Lagos PRO, Braide 

One of the suspected gang members that hatched and effected the kidnap of a British nationale, Mr. Dickson Lee, yesterday regaled onlookers how the operation went down and how he was finally arrested and the Briton rescued.

The suspect, Benson Chukwuemeka, is currently being detained at the State Intelligence Bureau (SIB) of the Lagos State Police Command over his alleged roles in the kidnapping of Lee on Tuesday, July 16, 2013 along Mafoluku area, Murtala Mohammed International Airport Road, Lagos.

EXCLUSIVE: Fire Guts Power Generating Room of Ikeja Plaza

Pandemonium erupted yesterday when an early morning fire gutted the power generating room of the popular Ikeja Plaza, opposite Conoil Fuel Station, Ikeja, Lagos. When the explosion rocked the power generating room, it was gathered that pandemonium erupted as both workers and customers in the building at that time panicked as they struggled to flee to safety.

However, it was gathered that there was no loss of live, rather the destruction of the room the fire started from,  as the prompt response of the state fire service helped restrict the fire from spreading. Confirming, the incident, the spokesperson, National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), South-west, Mr. Ibrahim Farinloye, said the fire was contained with the same hour it erupted.

EXCLUSIVE: Lagos PRO's Father Dies

Lagos PRO, Ngozi Braide 

The Lagos State Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO),  Ngozi Braide, a Deputy Superintendent of Police, Sunday lost her father, Chief Cypril Uzoma Nwadike, who was said to have suddenly slumped and died in his hometown in Imo State.

The deceased was until his death said to be in perfect health and gave no inkling to any health issues or alluded to any sickness.  Confirming the incident, Braide said her father died at the age of 67 after he slumped, adding that the death was sudden and unnatural as he was not sick before his death.

The Duchess of Cambridge Goes into Labour for England's Third Successor

The Duchess of Cambridge is in labour at a London hospital with her husband, William
by her side, as the Royal Family awaits the birth of the third in line to the throne.

Nseobong Okon-Ekong: Protests as Bayelsa Indigene Emerges MBGN 2013

Governor Seriake Dickson

Amid a wave of protests which was drowned by jubilation from the 'home crowd,' a new Most Beautiful Girl in Nigeria (MBGN), 18-year-old, Anna  Ebiere Banner, was crowned at the banquet hall of the Bayelsa State Government House at the weekend.

Apparently dissatisfied with the decision of the panel of judges headed by accomplished businessman, Mr. Ini Okorie, which was at variance with a section of the audience who thought that the judges might have been influenced to favour the Bayelsa indegene, who also represented her home state, some of the audience faulted the decision.

FEATURES: RRS- Running for Cover?

RRS motorcycle parked at Mile 2

Chiemelie Ezeobi writes that the Rapid Response Squad (RSS) in Lagos State stationed run-down patrol motorcycles without its officers around them in strategic parts of the state, but police authorities claim that they are good and that its men are merely running for cover

"Right at a point where a Rapid Response Squad (RRS) motorbike was stationed, I was robbed at night and yet I found no help, apparently because the bike was just stationed there as a fright without any police officer around and robbers are aware of those gaps and they are taking the advantage to dispossess people of their valuables even right at the place where you find such bikes. It is annoying."