Police nab armed robbery suspect who specializes in stealing cars from the East and shipping them to Lagos to sell

The Police Command in Lagos State has detained a 22-year-old member of an armed robbery syndicate specialising in car theft.    In a statement released on Saturday, the command’s spokesperson, CSP Benjamin Hundeyin, said that the suspect was apprehended in the Ikotun area of the state through intelligence gathering.   “The syndicate targets vehicles in…

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REMINISCENCE: Allegations of Mismanagement by ‘Unauthorized’ Inspector-General of Police Egbetokun at Lagos Police Training School During His Tenure as Commandant in 2016

The Inspector-General of Police, Kayode Egbetokun, whom many activists have described as illegally occupying office for failing to retire from the police service, has a history of controversies, including when he served as Commandant at the Police Training School in Ikeja, Lagos State in 2016.  The current controversy is over Egbetokun’s tenure and it follows…

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Junta forces compel over 70 young men to join in a Myanmar town.

This article was originally published by Radio Free Asia and is reprinted with permission. Authorities in Myanmar forcibly recruited more than 70 young men from a single town in the south-central Ayeyarwady region, residents said Monday, as the junta launched a new round of training for the country’s draftees. It’s the latest round-up under Myanmar’s…

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