Police rescue NACCIMA boss from kidnappers, arrest seven

The suspects

The Oyo State Police Command has rescued 78-year-old owner of Bond Chemicals and National Life Vice President of the Nigerian Association of Chambers of Commerce and Industry Mines and Agriculture, Chief Adebowale Omotoso.

Omotoso was rescued in Ajia, a remote village in the Egbeda Local Government Area of Ibadan.

The police said $1m was demanded from Omotoso’s family.

Those arrested on Monday in connection with the crime are a mother of three,

If I hear! Is this how all public Pry schools look like in Rivers state?

If I hear! Is this how all public Pry schools look like in Rivers state?

APC released these photos of Buhari and other chieftains visiting a primary school in Rivers state today and claimed that this is how all public primary school in the state look like. A member of the APC Presidential team, Lola Shoneyin shared the photos and wrote "All primary schools in Rivers State look like this. Happy pupils thrilled to meet 'President Buhari!'

Biko, Rivers state residents, is this what all your primary schools look like? See more pics after this...

Card readers and electoral system

Nigerian permanent voters card

The development and use of technology in achieving a special task in an efficient and effective manner to produce a verifiable result is taking a central stage of discourse and implementation in every aspect of human endeavour. The introduction of a smartcard reader machine by the Independent National Electoral Commission to determine the validity of the Permanent Voter Cards and their owners’ identity for elections in the forthcoming 2015 elections is considered a step forward by many. However, some believe that Nigeria is not yet ripe for a technology of this nature and magnitude in our electoral system.

The introduction of the card reader machine has generated wide ranging discussions on the tendencies either

Photos: Man allegedly beaten to a pulp by police officers in Lekki

Photos: Man allegedly beaten to a pulp by police officers in Lekki

According to eye-witnesses, mobile policemen attached to Zenith Bank branch at Elf Bus stop in Lekki Phase 1 beat this unidentified man to a pulp yesterday March 11th. Don't know exactly what he did to warrant such brutal assault. The man fell unconscious and was rushed to the hospital by the police and other passers-by who got involved. 

Hopefully, someone in higher authority will caution these officers. See more photos after this...

Five injured as fire guts Finecoat Paints

 

No fewer than five people have been injured after fire gutted the factory of popular Lagos-based Company, Chemstar Paints Industries Nigeria Limited, producers of Finecoat Paints.

Our correspondent learnt that Chemstar Paints, which is located on the Lagos-Abeokuta Expressway, Alagbado, Lagos State, has a three storey building office at the front, while its warehouse and factory are at the back.

The fire was said to have started from the factory section of the company.

There were, however, two accounts of what led to the fire.

A worker in the company, who craved anonymity, said it was during the uploading of fuel that the fire erupted, while another source said it was during the production of some paints.

But the company had yet to give an official cause of the incident.

Firemen from the Lagos State Fire Service, Manufacturers Association of Nigeria and officials of the Lagos State Emergency Management Agency and the Lagos State Ambulance Service, were said to be on ground as of press time.

Charley Boy releases new photos

           Charley Boy releases new photos

This Guy has turn to another thing. more pix......