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Nigerian sex workers in Ghana arrested by police at brothels

About 50 sex workers including Nigerian women have been arrested by the Ghana police after they raided brothels. According to reports, these sex workers were arrested at popular brothels and ghettos in Koforidua, the capital town in the Eastern Region through a special operation initiated by the Member of Parliament for the New Juaben South Constituency, Michael Kofi Okyere Baafi.

Sex workers arrested in Ghana. Photo credit: Google. Source: Google The Member of Parliament together with the police staged this operations due to the rise of the activities in the constituency which has the tendency to negatively corrupt the youth and taint the reputable image of the regional capital. The police disclosed that about 90 percent sex workers arrested were Nigerians while the rest were Ghanaians and others from other foreign nationals. “Yesterday, I directed the police to do an operation in town, and so they started the first operation to arrest all those prostitutes who come to our town. We managed to arrest about 50 people, and we will arraign them before the court,” he said. “About 90 percent are Nigerians. There are Ghanaians. They are coming here to dent the good image of Koforidua. Everybody who is doing that business will not be tolerated. Some may be living in your house. If you know such persons and cannot go to the police station, call me,” “Prostitution in Koforidua will not be tolerated, and we urge you to help us to deal with the act in the town,” the MP added.

Police band, fans give Khosi a royal welcome as she arrives Nigeria

Winner of the BBTitans 2023 edition, Makhosazane “Khosi” Twala receives a royal welcome from fans and police band as she arrives Nigeria. The south African touched down at the Muritala International Airport, Lagos state, on Friday, June 9th 2023.

BBTitans: Police band, fans give Khosi a royal welcome as she arrives Nigeria. Photo Credit: Khosi. Source: Instagram. A video which surfaced online shows the moment she was welcomed by many fans who trooped out in huge numbers to welcome her. Some policemen could be seen putting up a beautiful musical performance to serenade her.

BBTitans: Police band, fans give Khosi a royal welcome as she arrives Nigeria. Photo Credit: Khosi. Source: Instagram. Khosi who was evidently overwhelmed with joy over the wonderful reception was seen smiling happily as she held a bouquet of flowers she was given. Watch the video below: Netizens took to comment section to react; 1086g_h gushed; “King khosi is loved 😍😍😍😍❤️🙌🔥🔥” 1086g_h wrote; “They really did well, tomorrow,they will see better meet n greet” queen_bve; “The mother that mothered their collective mother is here ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️@ all hail.” wadetjohnson; “Congratulations king khosi much love 🔥🔥”

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Barber calls out police officers who extorted him of N100k at Second Rainbow

A Nigerian barber has cried out for justice over being allegedly extorted by some police officers at Second Rainbow area of Lagos state. The barber said his sad encounter with the police officers ensued after booking a ride from a ride-sharing app.

Victim shows off POS receipt to back claim of extortion. Source: Twitter @alilmoonn disclosed that the police officers conducted a search on him after stopping his ride and forced him into their car after seeing his iPhone 14 pro max. He said the police officers accused him of fraud and threatened to take him to an EFCC office if he doesn’t give them N2m. The barber further revealed the police officers subsequently extorted him of N100k after taking him to a Point-of-Sale unit. He tweeted; “In my life I have never been this scared, Nigeria is so scared, I was abused today by the Nigerian police men? They were 4 men plus the driver, was coming back from the federal registry at ikoyi, this men stop my Uber drive and asked him to open his boot, he did. “The police men found nothing the other one asked me to come down and meet their boss, I did and the boss asked me to enter inside the car they’re using to patrol they carried me and say they want to report me to the EFCC, I’m a barber by profession, I have my certificate. “I’m innocent, this men pressed me to the extent I couldn’t breathe and I was begging them so I can take air they refused, they said I’m using an iPhone 14 pro max I’m into fraud, i swear on my life I have never done anything like that in my life!

Nigerian police officers on duty. Source: Web “The police men said I should pay them 2 million naira, firstly they took my phone from me, I can’t even reach my mom or family, I told them that I don’t have up to that amount they’re requesting and I pleaded for them to stop so I can but they never listen!!! It’s so sad Nigeria. “So the man check my UBA balance and found out I didn’t have such amount and the them to collect 100k from me, I did nothing they didn’t see any fraud activity in my phone, the man said if I did pay they will beat me or take me to the efcc and lock me up. “I was begging. I told them it’s my hard earn money Nigeria is hard and this men still making it unbearable for us it’s very sad they took the 100k from my bank. I couldn’t take pictures of the police because they’re with my phones. “I only have the picture from the POS slips.. this men are in second rainbow Lagos State. “I can’t breathe!!!! Your men did this to me today!! One of them even cock a gun, they’re after the money but not my safety,, all thanks to God because I don’t even know what my mom would do without me at that stage I was thinking if I’m going to see my mom and family again.”

The extortion victim’s tweets Spokesperson of the Lagos state police command, SP Benjamin Hundeyin who reacted to the tweets wrote; “Just as we discussed on phone, follow through with the Area Commander’s advise and keep us updated. We will not be deterred in our resolve to rid the Force of bad eggs. We will not!”

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Lagos Police sacks sergeant for extorting young man of N98k out of N100k on his account

Lagos Police sacks sergeant for extorting young man of N98k out of the N100k from his account

Lagos Police has sacked a sergeant identified as Ekpo Shinuyere for extorting a young man of N98K out of N100K from the bank account. Elaborating on the incident, the command’s spokesperson, Benjamin Hundeyin, in a statement disclosed that the sergeant, Shinuyere transferred an amount of N98,000 out of the N100,000 from the victim’s account to his.

Lagos Police sacks sergeant for extorting young man. Photo credit: Google. Source: Google According to Hundeyin, Shinuyere transferred the money to the young man by using a point of sale (POS) machine by the roadside. Hundeyin’s statement disclosed that the victim reported the case of extortion to the Lagos police but the sergeant denied all allegations. In the process of the investigations, the POS operator was traced who confirmed the incident while a copy of the officer’s bank statement was also requested from his bank. However, in order not to tamper with any evidence, the officer was put in detention prior to investigations. “Police got the complaint from the victim and the officer denied the crime when he was contacted. The command placed him under detention so that he will not tamper with the evidence. We wrote to his bank and obtained his statement of account. We were able to trace the money to where the POS operator transferred it before transferring the money to the officer’s account. We followed due process to get his account. The victim was invited in the course of the investigation, and he testified. The POS operator was also invited, and he said the officer requested him to transfer the money from the victim’s account to another one. The commissioner of police, Lagos command, Mr. Idowu Owohunwa, reviewed the orderly room procedure of the officer with Force No. 461654, attached to Sogunle Police Division, and approved the punishment of dismissal from the force”, Hundeyin said in the statement.

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Seun Kuti’s lawyer tackles police, ask them to stop keeping his case file

Adeyinka Olumide-Fusika, afrobeat star Seun Kuti’s lawyer has accused the police of holding on to his case file and refusing to obey a magistrate who ordered that it be sent to the Lagos State Director of Public Prosecutions for legal advice. Fusika who accused the police of parading his client at every police station in the state, said they are waiting for him to be charged so they can offer his defence.

Trending:Another Nigerian lady set to break Guinness World Record as she begins counting of rice grains (Video) The lawyer said in a statement; “Mr Kuti submitted himself to the police so that he can go answer in court for the allegation of assaulting a policeman. It is the police who, rather than taking this simple and straightforward step, have decided to create a circus and make a ‘national emergency’ of the matter. “Now that Mr Kuti has been put in manacles and taken on parade from one police station to another and from one location to the other across Lagos State since Monday, May 15, when exactly is he going to be charged for, as you put it in your statement, ‘attacking and slapping a police officer in uniform?’ “That should not be too much for a suspect to expect. I do hope that Lough as a lawyer and indeed a Senior Advocate of Nigeria counselling the police on this matter will obey the order of the magistrate’s court to send the case file to the Lagos State Director of Public Prosecutions for legal evaluation and possible charge and prosecution before a court of law.”

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Man arrested wearing police uniform, claims he picked them from a dustbin

A young man identified as Issa Majafara has been arrested by the Lagos State Police after he was caught wearing a police uniform. In the photo circulated online, the young man who was paraded at the police station was seen wearing a police shirt, camouflage T-shirt, and a police cap.

According to police sources, the young man Majafara was apprehended along the Iyana-Iba market road on May 16. After his arrest, the police recovered two police trousers, one camouflage T-shirt, and one police face cap. After he was interrogated, the suspect claimed to have found the police uniform in the dustbin. The suspect is currently in police custody and will be arraigned in court.

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Police van mistakenly crushes customer’s car in a car chase, incident goes viral (video)

In a shocking incident captured on a video shared on Twitter by user @Naija_PR, a police van was involved in a car chase that led to the crushing of a customer’s vehicle. The unfortunate incident occurred as the police officers allegedly mistook a mechanic for a “yahoo boy” (internet fraudster).

According to the video footage, which quickly went viral on social media, the police van can be seen in pursuit of a vehicle on a busy street. In the heat of the chase, the police van collided with a parked car owned by a customer who had brought it to the mechanic’s workshop for repairs. Eyewitnesses reported that the confusion arose when the police mistook the mechanic, who was test-driving the customer’s vehicle, for a suspect involved in fraudulent activities. The police, believing they were pursuing a criminal, engaged in a high-speed chase that resulted in the collision with the innocent customer’s car.

Bystanders quickly gathered at the scene, expressing shock and concern over the incident. See below; Police van has crushed a customer’s car, as they reportedly mistook a mechanic for a yahoo boy in a car chase pic.twitter.com/TDrQ1XfZqh — Naija (@Naija_PR) May 17, 2023

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Why we stormed Seun Kuti’s home – Police

The Lagos State Police Command has given a reason why they stormed the Akin Osiyemi residence of Afrobeat musician, Seun Kuti. On Tuesday, some police officers stormed the house of afrobeat musician Seun Kuti, off Allen Avenue, Ikeja, Lagos for a search.

An eyewitness told PUNCH in an interview that the police officers took along the phone of Seun Kuti’s wife after the search. “The police officers invaded Seun’s home here on my street, Akin Osiyemi, and he was in the vehicle with them while in handcuffs. They stormed and searched his apartment. But they also seized his wife’s phone before driving off with Seun Kuti”, the eyewitness said. Disclosing why the house of Seun Kuti was raided, the Lagos State Police Public Relations Officer, Benjamin Hundeyin, said the command obtained a warrant to search Seun Kuti’s residence. He disclosed that it was also part of the process for their ongoing investigations. “It’s part of our ongoing investigations. We were investigating assault, we stumbled on some things we needed to verify. We got a duly issued search warrant, which we executed,” Hundeyin told PUNCH.

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Nigerian Police allegedly asks court for 21 days to detain Seun Kuti

The Lagos State Police Command has asked Court to remand Seun Kuti for 21 days in detention as the police officer he slapped is allegedly in coma at an undisclosed hospital. A source disclosed to SaharaReporters that Seun Kuti was secretly arraigned without notifying his lawyers at the Yaba magistrate court.

“The police have moved Seun Kuti to the Yaba Magistrate Court for arraignment without notifying his lawyers. The magistrate is sitting by 12noon, but Seun and his lawyers are already in court,” the source said. According to SaharaReporters, a witness in the court said; “The Chief Magistrate Mrs, Adeola Olatunbosun Magistrate Court 1 Yaba took a statement from the Nigerian police applying to detain Seun Kuti for 21 days, claiming the policeman he allegedly assaulted is in a coma at an undisclosed hospital. However, Kuti’s lawyer, Adeyinka Olumide-Fusika countered that the police already stated publicly that the police officer trailed and went to Seun’s house and accepted N12,000 to repair his car. It also emerged that the DCP in Panti had gone to meet the Magistrate earlier before secretly moving Seun to the court without notifying his lawyer. They also accused Seun of not writing a statement, but Olumide-Fusika countered that he was there when Seun wrote a statement. The Chief Magistrate decided to go on recess to ‘study the file.” Seun Kuti, who spoke through his lawyer, Olumide Fusikan, SAN said that he would defend himself against Hundeyin’s investigative findings at the right time. Kuti turned himself in on Monday following the allegation that he assaulted a Police officer in a video making its rounds on social media.

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Court grants Seun Kuti bail, gives police 48 hours

Popular Nigerian singer, Seun Kuti, has been granted bail by the chief magistrate court in Yaba, Lagos state. The singer was granted bail on Tuesday, May 16. The court also directed police to investigate the alleged attack on an officer within 48 hours.

Seun Kuti’s car was halted on the Third Mainland Bridge and the son of the famed Fela Kuti was detained for slapping an officer. But the defence counsel, Femi Falana, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), begged the court not to remand his client. Seun had claimed that the police officer threatened his life and that of his family.

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