Two autopsies carried out on late police Insp Monday Orukpe of the police command in Lagos State have revealed that the officer died of assault, multiple injuries and blunt force trauma. The autopsies were conducted by the Lagos State University…
Burkina Faso ambush kills 13 soldiers: security sources
Suspected jihadists have ambushed and killed 13 soldiers in Burkina Faso’s eastern province, security sources told AFP on Sunday, in the latest violence to shake the insurgency-torn west African nation. Four members of the defense forces were also wounded in…
Syria: Bus blast near Damascus leaves many soldiers dead
Eighteen soldiers were killed and 20 wounded when an explosive device detonated on a military bus in the Damascus countryside on Thursday, local outlet Sham FM reported. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a UK-based activist group that counts casualties…
Armenia-Azerbaijan: Dozens dead in overnight clashes
Dozens of soldiers have been killed in fighting between neighbouring countries Armenia and Azerbaijan. Armenia’s Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said 49 of its soldiers died in overnight clashes. The two countries have fought two wars and seen regular smaller clashes…
Lawless soldiers brutalise policemen for seizing colleague’s Okada
Some soldiers attached to the Abalti Barracks, Surulere, Lagos State, have allegedly brutalised three policemen for arresting a yet-to-be-identified man, who was caught defying the state government’s ban on Okada in the area. PUNCH Metro gathered that the man, who…
Pastor and accomplice to die for beheading boy, Man imprisoned for false documents and more
What is a city without crime? thisislagos descends into the Lagos underground to search out the baddest guys committing the craziest crimes in LasGidi. Ritual: Pastor, accomplice to die for beheading 7 year-old (Punch) Justice Oluwatoyin Taiwo of the Lagos…
Soldiers torture Lagos policeman to death, brutalise 4
An Inspector serving with the Lagos State Police Command, Orukpe Monday, has died from the torture he allegedly received from soldiers who attacked him and his colleagues in the Trade Fair area of Lagos State. Another Inspector, Igbafe Ojo, who…
Army dismisses reports of planned protest by soldiers
The Nigerian Army on Wednesday dismissed as unfounded, reports that aggrieved soldiers in the theatres of operation are planning a protest in Abuja over poor equipment and unpaid emoluments. Director Army Public Relations, Brigadier General Onyema Nwachukwu, said that the…
Panic as soldiers go on the rampage in Oshodi
There is confusion in the Oshodi area of Lagos as some soldiers go on the rampage, vandalising vehicles. Videos posted on social media by some residents revealed the moments panic-stricken traders try to hide, as others take to their heels.…
Soldiers escort herdsmen to Ogun villages, flog residents for rejecting herders
Seye Mulero panted like a rat that had just escaped the claws of a ravenous cat. He could hardly acknowledge the sympathy offered by the kinsmen that surrounded him, urging him to take heart and seek medical treatment in hospital…
