(Tricycle Rider. Photo by NigeriaWorld) A commercial tricycle rider named Makua Ezike was found guilty of killing Jude Onwuegbuchunam, an indigenous person from Umuoji in the state’s Idemili North Local Government Area, and was sentenced to death by hanging by a High Court in Anambra State presided over by Justice Lauretta Oyeka. The offense…
Less than a day after a dispatch rider was killed by a hit-and-run driver on the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway, another rider has lost his life in a separate crash along the Ilupeju Bypass area of Lagos State, highlighting a deeply troubling pattern of fatal road incidents in the state. The Lagos State Traffic Management Authority’s spokesperson,…
American returnee and his gang members kill Uber rider in Lagos The police in Lagos state have arrested a 21-year-old US returnee, David Segun, and two others for allegedly killing an Uber driver in the Obalende area of Lagos state on January 9. Confirming their arrest to newsmen, the state Commissioner of Police, Ishola Olanrewaju,…
Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency have arrested a 20-year-old hair stylist, Josephine Odunu; and a 30-year-old dispatch rider, Edesemi Ikporo, for selling and distributing illicit drug-laced chin-chin to school students and at social parties in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State. The development was revealed by the spokesperson for the NDLEA, Femi Babafemi, in a…
