Category: Update
CP redeploys DPO, others for aiding COVID-19 violators, 113 arrested
Nationnewslead reports that The Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Hakeem Odumosu, has redeployed the Divisional Police Officer, Ajao Estate Division, and other...
Another governor flirts with a corrupted idiom
Last week, we discussed the mishandling of a popular English idiom by one of our governors. He had, as many people do, deployed the corrupted form of the saying...
Controversy as police recover lovers’ corpses from Lagos hotel
Nationnewslead reports that The remains of a man, identified simply as John, and his girlfriend, Darasimi, have been recovered from a hotel in the Fagaba area of...
Breaking: Zamfara Govt rescues ten kidnap victims
Nationnewslead reports that Zamfara State commissioner for security and home affairs Hon. Abubakar Duran has announced the liberation of ten kidnap victims...
Breaking: Bandits storm Kainji National Park, kill one staff, injure four others
Nationnewslead reports that Bandits have invaded the Kainji National Park in Borgu Local Government area of Niger state and killed one of the Park guards while...
CBN to appear before Senate over alleged missing $9.5m
Nationnewslead reports that Barring any last minute changes, officials of Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) are expected to appear before Senate Committee on Public...
Three killed in Rivers, two abducted in Osun
Nationnewslead reports that Three persons were killed at the weekend in Ibaa, a community in Emohua Local Government Area of Rivers State. Sources blamed the...
Politicians, Yahoo boys risk jail over stainless number plates, says FRSC
Nationnewslead reports that The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) in Anambra State has warned motorists in the state to stop the use of stainless number plates or...
Police prosecute monarch imposter, cleric over forgery
Nationnewslead reports that Police in Anambra State have arraigned a 76-year old man, Benedict Ifeatu over alleged forged documents to impersonate as the...
Billiri crisis: Gombe gov relaxes curfew
Nationnewslead reports that Gombe State Governor, Muhammadu Yahaya, on Monday, approved the review of the curfew imposed on Billiri Local Government Area from 6am...
Man allegedly disguises as army officer to beat police inspector
Nationnewslead reports that A 39-year-old man, Ikechukwu Chokuba, who allegtedly falsely presented himself as an army officer and assaulted a police officer, was...
EFCC arrests 37 internet fraudsters in Ekiti
Nationnewslead reports that The Ilorin Zonal Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Monday said it has arrested 37 internet fraud...
Ex-power minister, Wakil, sent to prison over alleged corruption
Nationnewslead reports that A former Minister of State for power in the country, Muhammad Wakil, is to remain in prison custody till March 31, 2021 on the order...
Violence mars PDP primary as thugs unleash terror in Oyo
Nationnewslead reports that Following the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) primaries towards producing a candidate to represent the party at the forthcoming local...
Kwara Hijab controversy: Government deploys security to schools in Ilorin
In order to forestall possible breakdown of law and order, security agencies were Monday deployed to the 10 public/grant-aided missions schools caught in hijab...
Women’s Day: Reps to amend UBE Act for girl-child free education
Nationnewslead reports that House of Representatives has hinted at a plan to amend the UBE Act (2004) and accommodate free education for the girl child to the...
El-Zakzaky’s ‘secret trial’ adjourned to March 31
Nationnewslead reports that A Kaduna State High Court has adjourned the “secret trial“ of the leader of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN), Ibrahim El...
Court sentences man to death by hanging for killing father
Nationnewslead reports that Akwa Ibom State High Court sitting in Ikot Ekpene, has sentenced a 31-year-old man, Edidiong Pius Ototi to death by hanging for...
Ogun takes delivery of 100,000 COVID-19 vaccine doses
Nationnewslead reports that Ogun State Governor, Prince Dapo Abiodun Ogun State on Monday took delivery of 50,000 doses of AstraZeneca/Oxford COVID-19 vaccine...
Court Verdict Affirming Ekiti PDP LG, State Congresses, Time to Sheath Our Swords – Bisi Kolawole
Nationnewslead reports that Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Ekiti State, Otunba Bisi Kolawole has again called on party leaders in the state to...
