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• Lagos, Ogun To Elect Chairmen, Councillors Today • LASIEC Pledges Transparency As Police Warn Against Thuggery • Court Declines Requests To Halt Lagos Poll As voters troop out today in Lagos and Ogun states to elect their local council chairmen and councillors, Yiaga Africa has lamented the over bearing influence of state governors on the grassroots election. Meanwhile, a Federal High Court sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos has declined the request by 11 political parties to halt today’s counc...

Lagos State Police Command on Thursday said it has arrested seven suspected cultists and impounded over 70 motorcycles across the state just as it has constituted a special squad to embark on the massive arrest of commercial motorcyclists popularlly called 'Okada' riders who violate the restriction order

Daily Post Nigeria Published The Ogun State police command has commenced action on the recent gas explosions in Abeokuta, the state capital. The command said it worked with other security and government agencies to set up a technical investigative team. The job of the team, Oyeyemi said, was to unravel the causes of the explosions, which it said killed six and injured eight other persons. According to the command’s spokesperson, Abimbola Oyeyemi, two gas plants suspected to have supplied the ...

The Imo State Police Command has re-arrested three suspected escapees from the Correctional Centre, Owerri. Their arrest followed sustained monitoring by the detectives from Oru West Division, who successfully rearrested one Cosmas Mbamara who hails from Ohakpu area of Mgbidi in Oru West LGA of Imo State and escaped from Correctional Centre, Owerri on 5th April 2021 during a jailbreak. In a statement endorsed and by the New Police Public Relations Officer of Imo Police Command, SP. Bala Elkana ...

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IPOB planning to attack Lagos – Police Commissioner The police urged the public to adopt the slogan of when you see something, say something.” 2 min read The Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Hakeem Odumosu, has said there are plans by members of the Eastern Security Network (ESN) and the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) to attack ‘soft spots’ in the state. Mr Odumosu disclosed this on Monday during a Security Townhall Meeting at the Lagos state secretariat, attended...

Indian government grants more powers to the military as popular anger over COVID-19 catastrophe mounts As popular anger mounts across India over the authorities’ utter failure to curb the tsunami of COVID-19 cases, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his far-right, Hindu-supremacist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government are granting more powers to the military in the name of controlling the disease. The BJP’s principal concern, however, is not suppressing the virus. It is strengthening the m...

May 1, 2021 Share Indian Defence Minister Rajnath Singh has invoked special provisions and granted Emergency Financial Powers to the Armed Forces to empower them and speed up their efforts in relation to the current COVID-19 situation in the country, on April 30, 2021. As per a release by the Ministry of Defence, Vice Chiefs of Armed Forces including Chief of Integrated Defence Staff to The Chairman Chiefs of Staff Committee (CISC) and General Officer Commanding-in-Chiefs (GOC-in-Cs) a...

Defence Minister Rajnath Singh Grants Emergency Financial Powers To Armed Forces To Fight Covid-19 Surge by Swarajya Staff - May 1, 2021 03:04 AM Defence Minister Rajnath Singh (Pic Via Twitter) Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Friday (30 April) invoked special provisions and granted Emergency Financial Powers to the Armed Forces to empower them and speed up their efforts in tide over the current COVID-19 situation in the country. These powers will help Formation Commanders to establish and op...

Read more about Armed forces given emergency financial powers to tackle Covid situation on Business Standard. These powers will help Formation Commanders to establish and operate quarantine facilities/hospitals, says govt