The Independent Investigation Panel on Human Rights Violations by the defunct Special Anti-Robbery Squad and other units of the Nigerian Police Force on Friday ordered the Chairman of National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, Brig. General Mohammed Buba Marwa (retd.), to produce the suspended Assistant Commissioner of Police (Intelligence Response Team), Abba Kyari, before it […]
The Principal of Dowen College, Lagos, Adebisi Layiwola has told a coroners inquest that the school was in the process of investigating an allegation that Sylvester Oromoni Jnr was bullied when it got the news of his death. The principal gave this testimony on Tuesday at the proceedings to unravel the circumstances behind the […]
The coroners inquest into the controversial death of late Dowen College student, Sylvester Oromoni resumed on Monday with the testimony of one of the school’s teachers, Hammed Ayomo. Ayomo who is also one of the housemasters told Magistrate Mikhail Kadiri that there is no secret cult in the school. The deceased father had alleged […]
CSP Bamidele Olusegun, on Tuesday, told an Ikeja Coroner’s Court that parents of some Dowen College students hindered investigation into the death of 12-year-old student of the school, Sylvester Oromoni. Olusegun, who works at the Homicide Section of the Lagos State Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department, Panti, Yaba, told the court that the parents […]
Uduak Akpan, the first accused person in the murder of Iniubong Umoren, a graduate of Philosophy from the University of Uyo, has told an Akwa Ibom State High Court presided over by Justice Bassey Nkanang that he was tortured to sign a statement given to him at the Department of State Services (DSS). At […]
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has provided more details in the 25kg cocaine bust involving suspended police DCP Abba Kyari. The Media Director, Femi Babafemi, said the agency carried out an evidence-based investigation and its resolve cannot be weakened by misrepresentation of facts. The police had claimed that NDLEA officers at the […]
Following the rejection and the return of the investigation report of the Special Investigation Panel which investigated suspended Commander of IRT, DCP Abba Kyari in the $1.1million Hushpuppi internet fraud scam and subsequent directive by the Police Service Commission to the Force headquarters to conduct a fresh investigation, it has emerged that the DIG […]
Mr Sylvester Oromoni Snr., father of the late Dowen College student, has made allegations of a cover-up between Nigeria Police Force and Lagos State Directorate of Public Prosecutions (DPP) over the circumstances surrounding his son’s death. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Oromoni Snr. made the allegations on Tuesday at an Ikeja […]
The Police Service Commission has deferred its decision in the case involving the suspended former Commander of the Inspector General of Police Intelligence Response Team (IRT) and Deputy Commissioner of Police, Abba Kyari over his alleged connection with the suspected fraudster, Abbas Ramon commonly called Hushpuppi. The PSC is also insisting that a new […]
A Chief Pathologist with the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH), Dr. Sunday Soyemi, has told the Coroner Inquest into the controversial death of Sylvester Oromoni, that a blackish substance was found in the boy’s intestine during autopsy. While answering questions on Tuesday under cross-examination from Counsel to the Oromoni family, Femi Falana (SAN), […]
