Wednesday 27 January 2016

Man picks prescription papers, makes N300,000 begging

Olatunbosun and Ajayi

A suspected drug addict, Kehinde Olatubosun, says he picks prescription papers from the waste bins of the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital, and has made over N300,000 in one month, begging Lagosians to help him with money to buy the drugs.

I know my four-year-old brother’s abductor – Sister, 8


Oyindamola Ojelabi, the eight-year-old sister of a Nursery 1 pupil, Michael Ojelabi, who was abducted on Wednesday, says she knows the captor of her four-year-old brother.

Mum was bedridden ─ Son of woman burnt by cultists


Gbenga Adefuye, the son of Adejoke Adefuye, a 65-year-old woman, who was killed by cult members in the Bariga area of Lagos State, says his mum was on her sick bed when their house was set on fire during a cult clash on Saturday.

Lagos gang leader, Sunday Terror, killed

Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Fatai Owoseni,

A gang leader popularly known as Sunday Terror has been shot dead in the Oyingbo area of Lagos State during a shootout with policemen.

Lagos bloody clash suspects paraded


The Lagos State Police Command on Monday paraded eight suspected cult members said to have been involved in a brutal clash that claimed three lives.

Security man arrested for using unlicensed pistol


The Lagos State Police Command has arrested a security guard, who claimed to be working with the Yaba College of Technology, Babatunde Lawal, for allegedly being in possession of an unlicensed pistol.

Court jails cop for killing student


An Edo State High Court in Benin on Monday sentenced a police corporal, Amadin Idahosa, to life imprisonment for killing a 22-year-old student, Ibrahim Momodu, in 2013.

Hoodlums slaughter 23-year-old, ask residents not to panic


Some hoodlums have invaded Iya Agan Street on Old Apapa Road in the Ebute-Meta area of Lagos State, killing a 23-year-old, identified only as Dada.