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Controversy as Customs invade Lagos market, cart away rice, money The Punch Published 4:15 am • Oyo traders protest overnight raid of rice stores Controversy has trailed the invasion of the Better Life section of the Ikotun Market in Lagos State by men of the Nigeria Customs Service. While some of the traders claimed that the law enforcement officers carted away local rice, including the money they kept in their shops, the agency said only foreign rice smuggled into the state were taken away. PUNCH Metro gathered that the incident happened around 1am on Wednesday, March 24,...

Daily Post Nigeria Published A car headed towards Olaiya Junction on Thursday afternoon went up in flames around Ayegbaju International Market, opposite Adolak filling station on the Gbongan-Ibadan road, Ogo-Oluwa, Osogbo According to information made available to DAILY POST by eyewitnesses, no life was lost to the incident as onlookers and other road users quickly tried to put out the fire before the arrival of the fire service to the scene. As at the time of this report, the cause of the fire could not be ascertained as the Operations Commander of the Federal Fire Service, Osun Command, DSF...

Punch Newspapers Sections Bola Bamigbola Ahead of today’s planned protest tagged #OccupyLekkiProtest at the Lekki tollgate in Lagos, the Federal Government has deployed policemen and over 150 men of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps to maintain law and order and possibly stop the protest. This is as some people under the aegis of #DefendLagos have also vowed to organise a counter-march against the #OccupyLekkiProtest demonstrators. The Federal Government and the police had earlier warned youths who planned to protest at the Lekki tollgate on Saturday (today) to have a rethink ...

While the officials are saddled with the responsibility of protecting the borders from infiltration of contraband goods, arms and illicit drugs, smugglers device various methods of going against the law. Apart from killing the alleged smugglers, Customs officials and innocent citizens are also losing their lives during altercations at border communities. Besides gun battles with the smugglers, findings by Daily Trust Saturday showed that excessive speeding by the security agents while going after the suspected smugglers contribute to the casualties being recorded. Sources said that in 2020, ...

Punch Newspapers Sections Bola Bamigbola, Osogbo RESCUE efforts to free four remaining passengers abducted near Iwaraja Junction, along Ilesha/Akure road may have been stalled, following withdrawal of some of the security personnel conducting search for the victims. Recall that seven of the passengers said to be members of a transport union were reportedly kidnapped by gunmen late Monday, but three of the victims were released early on Tuesday. According to findings, members of Oodua Peoples Congress in the state and vigilante men, had joined the police in conducting the search for the victim...