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  A businesswoman, Funmilola Eniola Oyewale and her 3 children, Oyewale Ayodeji Samuel, 12 years old, Oyewale Oreoluwa Racheal, 7years old and Oyewale Ezekiel Okikola, 4 years old, who were abducted on Sunday, August 13th, 2023 by gunmen in Atan community, Ota district in Ado Odo Ota local government, Ogun State, has regained their freedom after payment of N55m ransom. The husband, Ayokunle Oyewale told our correspondent on Tuesday, 24th of August, 2023 that the kidnappers demanded a N100m ransom but later reduced it to N55m. A senior member of the family also confirmed that the husband later negotiated with the kidnappers and paid N55m to secure the release of his wife and 3 children who were earlier kidnapped on Sunday night at the entrance of their residence while returning from an outing. According to her husband, “She was released in a border town between the Republic of Benin and Nigeria on Monday, 23rd of August, 2023 after spending ten days with the kidnappers. They hid her...

Political thugs on rampage Mayowa Olulana, Lagos Nigeria. It was reported on 25th of February that a labour party agent was attacked while performing his agency duties in Lagos. The scene suddenly became that of a planned attack after a man named Adedube Bankole Adebayo of number 6 Uncle Easy street,Agodi LASTMA, Off Odongunyan Ikorodu Lagos on 25th February 2023 was assaulted at the election polling booth where he served as Labour party agent in Lagos. According to him, the assault matter got sparked when he refuses to allow the thugs positioned to the polling unit alter election results numbers while it seems their political parties were losing out to the Candidates of Labour party which Bankole represented at the poling unit. Adedube Bankole was seriously injured after he tried preventing the thugs compromising election results from his unit for the election. He was quickly rushed down to Genesis hospital Lagos,where he spent four (4) months before he could be recuperated from the w...

  A 33 years old woman Olaide Adekunle has been arrested by men of Ogun state Police Command for selling her 18 months old baby at the rate of #600,000 to yet to be identified buyer. The suspect was arrested following a complain lodged at Sango divisional headquarters by the woman's husband, one Nureni Rasaq, who reported that his wife, Olaide Adekunle, left home to Lagos on the 15th of March 2023 with their baby girl by name Moridiat Rasaq, but returned home without the baby.  He stated further that all efforts to know what happened to the baby proved abortive as the woman was unable to give any reasonable account of whereabout of the said baby.  Upon the report, the DPO Sango division, CSP Dahiru Saleh, detailed his detectives to go after the said woman, and she was promptly arrested.  On interrogation, the suspect confessed that she has sold the baby to someone in Lagos at the rate of six hundred thousand naira (#600,000). When asked the reason for her action, she...

   A staunch supporter of the All Progressive Congress and a grassrot political mobilizer in Ado Odo Ota local government, Comrade Ibrahim Fayomi popularly known as Olumako has sent a powerful signal to an Ota based SSA calling him a Crow bird who does nothing but to perch on eggs laid by other birds. Though Comrade Olumako is yet to mention the name of the said SSA, he said people should watch out for the full gist.  More details later...........

  Men of Ogun state Police Command on Wednesday 12th of April 2023, successfully repelled armed robbery gang who invaded the popular phone market in Okelewo area of Abeokuta.  The armed robbery gang numbering about eight, stormed the market popularly known as "TARMARC" at about 5:30 p.m, started shooting sporadically and cartering away expensive phones.  Distress call was quickly made to the police at Ibara divisional headquarters, consequence upon which the DPO Ibara division, CSP Abayomi Adeniji quickly mobilized his anti robbery and surveillance teams in collaboration with men of Amotekun corps and moved to the scene.  On sighting the policemen, the robbers engaged them in gun battle, but due to the superior fire power of the policemen, the hoodlums took to their heels.  They were hotly chased and with the assistance of the market men, one of the robbers later identified as Adeniji Sakiru 32 years old was apprehended. Unfortunately, one Dayo Bankole, a trader...

  One of the most formidable support groups of senator Solomon Adeola Olamilekan (YAYI), Yayi Liberators, yesterday 1st of April 2023 converged in the city of Ota to officially kick off the awareness and mobilisation program for the Ogun 2027 governorship race tagged Yayi Liberators project 2027, Yayi on my mind.  The well attended event had in attendance members and coordinators across Ado Odo Ota local government. The convener of the group, comrade Ibrahim Fayomi populary reffered to as Olumako while addressing crowds gathered, thanked members of the group for a  job well done in the last election and also said another phase is about to kick off with the launch of the group's project 2027 program.  Comrade Olumako explained that being the first group to have campaigned for senator Yayi in Ado Odo Ota local government and Ogun west senatorial zone, the group has again taking yet another bold step to openly declare support for the 2027 governorship ambition of senato...

Thugs invaded the Adejare Polling Unit in Ilasa, Oshodi/Isolo Local Government Area of Lagos State, on March 18, 2023, disrupting the governorship and state assembly election. The attackers, suspected to be affiliated with the opposition party, wielded daggers and sharp objects, forcing voters to flee. According to Arome Solomon, an eyewitness, INEC officials were nowhere to be found as of 10:12 am, only few policemen were on ground leaving voters stranded and vulnerable to the thugs. "Policemen on ground were few. The people have all run away and are not willing to return, even the policemen too run away" he added. Another eyewitness, who craved anonymity and doubles as a party agent at Polling Unit 052, Olusoji Street, off Afariogun, Oshodi, reported being driven out of the area by suspected political thugs after confirming he was an agent of the rulling party. "They seized my phone and checked through it to confirm that I haven’t recorded their activities. They also c...