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The police in Lagos State have launched a manhunt for a man suspected to have murdered his lover at a hotel on Prince Adeyemi Street, Ikotun, Lagos. It was learnt that the suspect, whose name had yet to be ascertained, had lodged in a room in the hotel – Taola Hotel – with his girlfriend around 9.30pm on Friday. He was said to have paid for one hour which was supposed to elapse around 10.30pm. Workers of the facility, however, became worried when it was 12am and the guests did not check out of the hotel. The manager of the hotel, identified only as Ahmadu, was said to have gone to check the room only to discover that the woman was dead, while the suspect had fled. Ahmadu reported the case at the Ikotun Police Division, while the remains of the victim were deposited in a morgue. A resident of the area, Jibola Adesina, said no one could explain how the suspect escaped from the hotel. He said, “The police came to remove the corpse. No one can say how...

The Oyo State Police Command has arrested a robbery suspect, one Felix Ademola. Ademola, an ex-convict, who left prison a few months ago, was paraded along with other robbery  suspects at the state command headquarters in Eleyele, Ibadan, Oyo State. He was said to be robbing some residents of the state, together with his gang members, when he was arrested. The suspect, who claimed to have conducted successful robbery operations in Lagos and Ogun states, said he was introduced to the production of fake money shortly after leaving the prison. He said, “After I left prison, I began dealing in fake money. I bought the fakes from a man who printed them in the Abattoir area of Agege, Lagos State. For the N200,000 that I collected from him, I paid him N30,000. The fakes were in N1,000 denomination. “The way I operate is that I will go out and buy items of about N200, pay with a fake N1,000. I will then be given a change of N800. I will do this to dif...

No fewer than three persons, including two children, have been killed by a gas explosion at 32, Osazuwa Street, along Agbor road, in Ikpoba-Okha Local Government Area of Edo State.   Ten other persons were also said to have been injured in the fatal incident that occurred at about 7am on Sunday.   The deceased were identified as 11-year-old Favour Okotie and Odion Okotie, aged two, and one Augustine, also known as Ebo.     Details later    

Two suspected homosexuals, Orji Odinaka, 32, and Ejineme Nonso, 22, are being held by the police in Enugu State. The Police Public Relations Officer, Enugu State Police Command, Mr. Ebere Amaraizu, who disclosed this in a statement on Sunday, said the two men were rescued from an irate mob that wanted to set them ablaze. He said the incident took place in the Coal Camp area of Enugu on Saturday. Amaraizu explained that Odinaka, a commercial driver  in Enugu, was accosted by the mob after he attempted to rape one Sunday, a wheelbarrow pusher, who was in the same room with him. “The boy raised the alarm, a development which attracted people in the area. “Nonso, who was alleged to be Odinaka’s accomplice in the gay practice, was also accosted by the mob after another boy, Chimezie, revealed that he had been threatening him for refusing to succumb to his homosexual advances,” the PPRO added. Amaraizu said the mob had already stripped Odinaka and N...

FIFA, which has struggled to find commercial partners since it was battered by a corruption scandal last year, named a Russian bank as its first regional World Cup sponsor. The global soccer body on Monday said Alfa Bank would “activate sponsorship initiatives” around the 2018 World Cup, which is being hosted by Russia. FIFA said that, under a new commercial strategy for the World Cup, up to four packages were being offered for regional sponsors in each of the five regions. It listed the regions as Europe, North America, South America, Middle East and Africa, and Asia.  It said there was a growing interest in the approach. FIFA was thrown into turmoil last year after criminal investigations were launched into the sport in the U. S., where several dozen former soccer officials have been indicted, and Switzerland. It was also forced to reform its bidding process after a December 2010 vote awarded the 2018 and 2022 tournaments to Russi...

A bullion van driver has confessed to conveying the N1.219bn, which the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission alleged was delivered to the Ekiti State Governor, Mr. Ayodele Fayose, in the build-up to the June 2014 governorship election in the state, which Fayose won. Fayose is being investigated by the EFCC for allegedly receiving the N1.219bn through the Office of the National Security Adviser for his campaign in 2014, an amount said to be part of the N4.7bn allegedly diverted from the ONSA under Col. Sambo Dasuki (retd.). EFCC investigations had revealed that the N4.7bn was paid into a bank account of Sylvan McNamara, a company in which the sons of a former Minister of State for Defence, Senator Musiliu Obanikoro, are said to be directors. About N1.219bn was allegedly flown to Akure on a private plane during the build-up to the Ekiti State governorship election. Fayose was alleged to have received the N1.219bn through his bosom friend, Abiodun Agbel...

The All Progressives Congress member representing Kogi West Senatorial District, Senator Dino Melaye, on Thursday said he called Senator Oluremi Tinubu a stupid woman on the floor of the Senate during an executive session because she also referred to him as a dog and a thug. Melaye, who addressed parliamentary reporters in the National Assembly, however, denied using vulgar words against Oluremi, the wife of the leader of the APC, Senator Bola Tinubu. He vowed not to apologise to Tinubu for allegedly assaulting his wife even as he said that the APC leader could not determine his future political career because the politician was not God. Melaye said, “…I did not use any insolent, abusive, degrading or mannerless language. So, there was no reaction from any of our colleagues as regards my presentation. After I spoke, so many other senators spoke and I did not mention the name of any senator while I was making my presentation. “Unfortunately, Senator Olu...