The police in Lagos have arrested a 25-year-old woman, Joy Okeke, after her boyfriend, Ofoagbu Ekene, reportedly diverted 40,000 litres of diesel worth N7.2m and fled. Okeke was apprehended along with a teacher, Lukman Kelani, who was said to have stood as a guarantor of the fleeing suspect at Northbridge Oil, which employed him as a driver. The company had […]
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A police driver has killed two people while attempting to stop an overloaded commercial bus on the Asaba-Ibusa-Ogwashi-Uku Expressway, in the Oshimili North Local Government Area of Delta State. Several sources, who witnessed the accident, claimed that the driver of the commercial bus and a male suspect, who the police were taking to the state command in Asaba, died on the […]
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Twenty-year-old Oluwole Sunday is not your average commercial motorcyclist. In fact, the only thing “commercial” about his okada business is that while other okada riders transport members of the public from one point to another in the Lagos metropolis, he made his money by transporting robbers on their daily operations. But that didn’t last. His “business” was shut down recently […]
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A taxi driver, Sunday Agbariko, has crushed an official of the Lagos State Traffic Management Authority, identified as Olayemi Isiaka. Agbariko crushed Isiaka’s leg on Monday at the Ojota yard of the agency while attempting to escape with his car that had been impounded.
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The Kogi State Command of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency has arrested a truck driver with 1,126.9 kg of Indian hemp with a street value of N5m. The truck driver, Ismaila Abdulahi, was arrested on Wednesday with the illicit drugs concealed in 100 bags. The commander of the agency, Alhaji Idris Bello, who paraded the suspects yesterday said Abdullahi […]
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A 35-year-old man is standing before a Magistrates’ Court in Kano on a charge of causing grievous hurt after allegedly biting off a driver’s ear. The prosecutor, Sgt. Sani Kura, told the court on Wednesday that Ikechukwu Ogbonna committed the offence on July 10. Kura said that one Cletus Nweke, a driver in charge of a luxury bus, reported the […]
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The Rivers State Police Command has provided details about how a bullion van driver absconded with N100m in Port Harcourt. The unidentified driver and the bullion van containing the cash had been reported missing on Friday after arriving in Port Harcourt from Aba to deliver cash to some banks. The state Deputy Police Commissioner in charge of Administration, Mr. Uche […]
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The Diversion For 24-year-old Osas Uwagie, an indigene of Edo State and a tanker driver, nothing better explains why he diverted a tanker loaded with 33 thousand litres of diesel than bad company. Osas who was said to have been recruited by a Lagos-based oil and gas firm (name withheld) was en-route Abuja to supply the said products. He, however, diverted […]
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