Monday, 9 September 2013

Thieves target NURTW buses.
By Patience Ogbo.

Mustapha Olalekan 42,the Unit chairman of the National Union of Road Transport Workers  at Somolu had on  July 7th parked his Volkswagen Faragon commercial bus  with registration no XV142AKD in front of his  house at Number 1 Adebiyi Street Somolu at about 11.pm only for him to wake up the next day to discover the bus had disappeared.
Olalekan  reported the theft  at the Alade Police Division  and the detail was  promptly sent to the Radio room.
Three weeks after the theft, Olalekan got a report from  a friend who resides at Ogijo in Ogun State but works as a Commercial cab driver along the Ogijo /Ikorodu axis that he saw a Faragon bus with the door  bearing   Olalekan
Thieves target NURTW buses.
By Patience Ogbo.

Mustapha Olalekan 42,the Unit chairman of the National Union of Road Transport Workers  at Somolu had on  July 7th parked his Volkswagen Faragon commercial bus  with registration no XV142AKD in front of his  house at Number 1 Adebiyi Street Somolu at about 11.pm only for him to wake up the next day to discover the bus had disappeared.
Olalekan  reported the theft  at the Alade Police Division  and the detail was  promptly sent to the Radio room.
Three weeks after the theft, Olalekan got a report from  a friend who resides at Ogijo in Ogun State but works as a Commercial cab driver along the Ogijo /Ikorodu axis that he saw a Faragon bus with the door  bearing   Olalekan
Five arrested, in  OPC  clash with police.
By Patience Ogbo


The police in lagos State have arrested five suspected members of the Oodua People’s Congress (OPC)for allegedly assauting policemen.
The incident took place  at the Egbeda/Idimu area of Lagos State yesterday when suspected  OPC members said to belong to  to Dr. Frederick Fasehun’s faction,allegedly wielding guns and other dangerous weapons beat up policemen.
Trouble stated when the OPC members numbering about 300 said to be travelling in a convoy were held in traffic but flouted  traffic law at the Car Wash area.
The OPC members were said to have taken over the duty of controlling the
Five arrested, in  OPC  clash with police.
By Patience Ogbo


The police in lagos State have arrested five suspected members of the Oodua People’s Congress (OPC)for allegedly assauting policemen.
The incident took place  at the Egbeda/Idimu area of Lagos State yesterday when suspected  OPC members said to belong to  to Dr. Frederick Fasehun’s faction,allegedly wielding guns and other dangerous weapons beat up policemen.
Trouble stated when the OPC members numbering about 300 said to be travelling in a convoy were held in traffic but flouted  traffic law at the Car Wash area.
The OPC members were said to have taken over the duty of controlling the
104 miscreants arrested causing public nuisance.

No fewer than 104 suspected miscreants were arrested in Lagos State at the weekend.
It was gathered that officers from the Lagos State police command ,OP MesA and State Security Service stormed the popular Oluwole ,Lagos Island about 5pm on Saturday and arrested the suspected miscreants from their hideouts.
According to a police source,the suspected miscreants had turned the Oluwole garage and environs to a jamboree of sort where they constitute themselves as warlord s ;take hard drugs and molest traders and passers-by.

The source added that residents were fed up with the nefarious activities of the miscreants who also double as cultists and reported to the
Lagos State Taskforce on Environmental and Special Offences  Unit .
The the officers  recovered a Yahama  boat engine,
While about  1000 litres were also recovered from Magodo and Isheri areas
Passengers escape death as LAGBUS crashed  into vehicles.
More than twenty passengers on board a LAGBUS escaped  death by the whiskers when the bus with registration number Lagos XU998-AAA conveying them to the Leventis  Lagos Island crashed into four stationary vehicles parked under the Carter Bridge at Ebute-Ero area of the state.
Eyewitnesses said the bus was filled with passengers with others standing adding that the incident took place about 2:15pm on Wednesday.
There was commotion when the bus said to be on top speed had a brake failure and skidded  the road before crushing  a man identified as Francis walking by the road side.
The bus dragged Mr. Francis and threw him under a car parked by the road side while the bus crashed into four other cars as the driver struggled to keep it in line.
An  eyewitness who identified himself as Samson Momoh said "We were standing by our car at the Carter bridge  when a LAGBUs lost control and skidded off the road. The driver tried to control the bus but it ramp into a pavement and hit a business man Francis  walking on the roadside. Francis was walking towards his car parked under the bridge when the bus hit him and  threw him under a car parked under the Carter Bridge. There was commotion and the passengers in the bus screamed to escape  but