April 2022

A 26-year-old commercial truck driver, Johnson Aja, who allegedly drove recklessly and without a driver’s license, was on Friday docked in an Ikeja Magistrates’ Court in Lagos.

The police charged Aja with reckless driving and driving without a driver’s license.

The Prosecution Counsel, DSP Kehinde Ajayi, told the court that the defendant committed the offense on April 13 at Market Street, Agege Lagos.

She said that the defendant drove a Foton Delivery Truck with registration number: FST 480 XN, in a reckless and dangerous manner and caused the death of Olamide Awolabi, aged 21.

The offense, Ajayi said contravenes the …

Police authorities, on Friday, accused Ms Precious Chikwendu, the estranged wife of Chief Femi Fani-Kayode of threatening the lives of witnesses lined up in the alleged attempted murder charge against her.

The offence, listed as count 14 in the new amended charge, was alleged to have been committed by Chikwendu and Emmanuel Anakan, a co-defendant, on Wednesday within the premises of the Federal High Court, Abuja.

They were alleged to have “criminally threatened the lives of Bako Maina, Isah Kudaru and other witnesses in the case to eliminate them by death if they insist on testifying in the case.”

The …