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AIG AbduMajid Ali addressing officers and men of the Zone 2 Command Abiodun Onafuye/Abeokuta The new Assistant Inspector-General of Police (AIG) in charge of Zone 2 Command, Lagos, Abdulmajid Ali has read out riot act to officers and men of the command on his zero tolerance for indiscipline and unethical conducts at the Zone 2 headquarters, Onikan, Lagos. Ali gave the warning while addressing officers and men of the command. In a statement signed by the zonal PPRO, SP Olumuyiwa Adejobi, the AIG surprised the officers and men of the command by arriving his office at 7:40 a.m. and met only a few personnel on duty. The police boss warned against lateness to duty, idleness, complacency, corruption and incivility to members of the public and any other inappropriate behaviors; emphasizing that, “it is no more business as usual”. Ali confirmed receiving lots of reports concerning various illegal, unethical and unprofessional acts exhibited by police personnel in Lagos and in the comman...

President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday received the outgoing Vietnamese ambassador to Nigeria, Mr. Hoang Hgoc Ho at the State House, Abuja. Photos: Sunday Aghaeze R-L; Second Secretary of Socialist Republic of Vietnam, Mr Vu Quang Thang, Nigeria’s Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Hajiya Khadija Buka Abba Ibrahim, President Muhammadu Buhari, the outgoing Ambassador of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, Mr. Hoang Hgoc Ho and his wife Lady Thi Ihanh Yen during a farewell audience at the State House in Abuja. R-L; Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Hajiya Khadija Buka Abba Ibrahim, President Muhammadu Buhari, the outgoing Ambassador of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, Mr. Hoang Hgoc Ho and his wife Lady Thi Ihanh Yen during a farewell audience at the State House in Abuja. President Muhammadu Buhari in a handsake with the outgoing Ambassador of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, Mr. Hoang Hgoc Ho during a farewell audience at the State House in Abuja. President Muhamma...

President Muhammadu Buhari President Muhammadu Buhari has said his administration will continue to accord agriculture premium importance through programmes and initiatives designed to motivate the citizens to produce enough food to feed the nation. Speaking at a farewell meeting with Mr. Hoang Ngoc Ho, the out-going Ambassador of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam at the State House on Tuesday, President Buhari said the high profile of agriculture in the priorities of his administration was primarily to achieve food self-sufficiency, economic revival and jobs creation. “We are hoping to motivate fellow Nigerians to work hard in this regard. We will continue to work closely with other countries to re-orient Nigerians towards their active involvement in the sector. We believe that the impressive agricultural developmental strides achieved by countries such as Vietnam, especially after the 1975 war, will be replicated here,” the President said. President Buhari congratulated Vietnam f...

A 31-year-old father of one, Sunday Dennis, was on Tuesday brought before a Badagry Magistrates’ Court in Lagos State for allegedly stabbing his wife, Blessing, with a screwdriver. The accused who resides at No. 6, Aro St., Ajara area of Badagry, was arraigned on a two-count charge of assault and threat to life. The Prosecutor, Insp. Innocent Uko told the court that the accused committed the offences on July 25 around 8:00 p.m at the mentioned address. He said the incident occurred when the accused was arguing with his wife over a certain amount of money. “They were arguing because his wife borrowed him a certain amount of money and he had yet to return it. “In the middle of the argument, the accused threatened to kill her with a screwdriver and stabbed her at the back. “She is presently at a hospital recovering from the injuries she sustained from the assault,” he said. Uko said the offences contravened Sections 56 and 171 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2011. The accused ...

Former FIFA President, Sepp Blatter Former FIFA president Sepp Blatter will appear in person at the Court of Arbitration for Sport for his August 25 appeal against his ban from football, his spokesman said Tuesday. Thomas Renggli, Blatter’s spokesman, said: “Mr. Blatter will go in person with his lawyer Lorenz Erni.” FIFA’s ethics committee initially suspended Blatter along with his one-time heir apparent Michel Platini in December for eight years over ethics violations. Those bans were cut to six years in February. Following Platini’s appeal, the Lausanne-based CAS reduced Platini’s suspension to four years. Both men were thrown out of football over a 2 million Swiss franc ($2 million, 1.8 million euros) payment that Blatter authorized to Platini in 2011. FIFA’s ethics judges deemed the payment “disloyal” to world football’s governing body. Blatter and Platini are the top names in a long list of football power players who have been brought down in a scandal that erupted in M...

Fatai Owoseni, Commissioner of Police, Lagos State Kazeem Ugbodaga The Lagos State Government on Tuesday said it will henceforth seize houses and hotels used as hideouts for kidnapping and other criminal activities in the state. This is in a determined effort to tackle increasing crime rate in the state. The Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Fatai Owoseni who briefed newsmen after the State Security Council meeting presided over by Governor Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode at the State House, Ikeja on Tuesday said the government was determined to eradicate the menace of kidnapping and militancy in the state. “The Security Council meeting was for us to look at the strategies that we would be deploying in tackling the criminal challenges that we have in the state and to further come up with strategies of sustaining those measures that would put criminal elements in check and of course the security council of the state has come out with plans to let our people know emphatically that the state...

An Iyaganku Senior Magistrates’ Court sitting in Ibadan, Oyo State, has sentenced Akeem Azeez, 23, and his cohort, Quadri Yusuf, 25, to three years in prison each for vandalizing transformer. Delivering the judgment on Tuesday, the Senior Magistrate, Mrs. Munirat Giwa-Babalola, found the convicts guilty on count one charge of conspiracy, count two of vandalizing and stealing and discharge them on count three of going about armed in public. She said the sentence would serve as a deterrent to others planning to commit such an offence. Akeem, a trader of Oke Are area of Ibadan, and Quadri, a baker of Baba Isale Compound, Foko, Ibadan, were docked after pleading guilty to the charges. The Police Prosecutor, Sgt. Kola Olaiya had earlier told the court that the convicts on July 22, at about 2 a.m at Itamaya area, Ibadan, conspired to vandalize a 500 KVA transformer. Olaiya said the convicts stole six fuses, two pipe coppers valued at N30,000 from the vandalized transformer belonging to ...