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  T he Lagos state chapter of the All Progressives Congress, APC, has asked the police to arrest the Labour Party, LP, governorship candidate in the state, Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour, over the statement he made this afternoon, concerning the elections.  While reacting to the several incidents of violence recorded in some parts of the state, Gbadebo expressed displeasure over the election, stating that “if tonight, Lagos catches fire, it is not our fault.”  Reacting to the comment, the APC in a statement released by its publicity Secretary, Seye Oladejo, cautioned Rhodes-Vivour and asked the police to arrest him if Lagos boils. “The attention of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has been drawn to a statement made by Labour Party (LP) governorship candidate Gbadebo Chinedu Rhodes-Vivour on today’s elections. He accuses the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and the police of “provoking Lagosians” and warning that “if tonight Lagos catches fire, it is not our faul...

  Wongfully Convicted Man Freed After 34 Years In Jail A man, Sidney Holmes, was released after serving more than 34 years of a 400-year prison sentence after the state of Florida reinvestigated the case and determined that he did not commit armed robbery. According to abcNEWS on Tuesday, a thorough re-investigation of the 1988 armed robbery case that led to Holmes' conviction "raised reasonable doubts about his guilt," according to Broward County State Attorney Harold F. Pryor. Pryor said that Holmes was arrested in October 1988 for allegedly being the driver for two unidentified men who robbed a man and woman outside a store at gunpoint. The car of the male victim was stolen by two unidentified men. In April 1989, he was found guilty by a jury and sentenced to 400 years in prison. At the time, prosecutors asked the judge to sentence him to 825 years in prison. The Conviction Review Unit determined that there is no evidence linking Holmes to the robbery other than an inc...

 A woman has been sentenced to eight and a half years in jail after she injured herself with a hammer to falsely claim she had been r@ped by a gang. Eleanor Williams, 22 from Barrow, United Kingdom, was sentenced today, Tuesday, March 14. She was previously found guilty on eight counts of doing acts tending and intended to pervert the course of justice after she accused five men of rape, leading to one being jailed and leaving others' lives in tatters. Williams was 16 when she made the first false claim she had been r@ped at a party in Barrow. She later claimed she had been r@ped after a night out at Manhattans nightclub, where she worked, and again at her flat by the same man. She went on to say she had been groomed from the age of 12, forced to attend sex parties across the north of England and taken to Ibiza where the abuse continued. She said she had been sold as a slave at an auction in Amsterdam while on holiday with her sister. Williams had published pictures of her injuries...

 ' Okada' Rider To Die By Hanging For Killing Father Over Property Justice Ezekiel Enang of Akwa Ibom State High Court sitting in Etinan Local Government Area has sentenced a commercial motorcyclist, Moses Edo, 37, to death by hanging for killing his father, Abdon Edo, over landed property. Justice Enang held that the convict, an indigene of Ikot Ukobo in Nsit Ubium LGA, confessed in his statement to have single-handedly killed his father in broad daylight on July 29, 2015, in his house and buried him, Daily Post reported on Tuesday. Enang said, “The convict, who is the first son of the deceased confessed to pursuing his father to the backyard of his old building and hit his head on the wall where he died on the spot over landed property.” The court held that by smashing the head of his father on the wall, the convict had intended to kill him. Justice Enang found Moses guilty of murder and ordered that he should be hanged or a lethal substance injected inside him until he is de...

 The presidential candidate of the Labour Party in the February 25 Presidential and National Assembly elections, Peter Obi, has said that he is challenging the process leading to the declaration of the President-elect, Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress, as the winner of the election and not the declaration itself. Obi said this during his appearance on Arise TV Monday morning. Toscana media report 🇱🇷

  The  Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC),  Ondo Command, has arraigned a man identified as  Samuel Oni , before a Magistrate’s Court sitting in Akure, the state capital, for allegedly defrauding a sex worker,  Blessing Olaitan,  of N120,000. In the course of the court proceeding, Olaitan said she was a professional sex worker, adding that after having sex with her, the defendant collected N80,000 from her with a promise to transfer the money alongside her N15,000 fee to her account. According to the sex worker, she later received a fake credit alert from Oni, who was dragged to the court on two-count bordering on conspiracy and stealing. “That you, Samuel Oni, and others at large on March 2023, at Alagbaka, Akure, within the jurisdiction of this honourable court, did conspire with yourselves to commit a criminal offence to with (sic) stole a sum of one hundred and twenty thousand naira of Mrs Blessing Olaitan, thereby committed an offence con...

Sad Sunday as Corps Member Who Died In Lagos Train Accident Buried amidst tears  The remains of Oreoluwa Aina, a 28-year-old National Youth Corps Member who was involved in the Lagos train accident which occurred on Thursday, March 9, have been laid to rest. Aina was among the six victims who were confirmed dead after a train crushed a Lagos State Government staff bus at PWD, Ikeja area of the state. The late corps member, who was serving with the Curriculum Services Department of the Lagos State Ministry of Education in Alausa was buried on Saturday at Atan cemetery. A delegation of the state government led by the Commissioner for Education, Folasade Adefisayo, was present at the burial. Also present were the deceased’s family members and the State Coordinator of NYSC, Yetunde Baderinwa. Credit: Dayo Oyewo -- Follow for breaking news and videos.