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Ebute Meta Magistrates’ Court, Lagos, has ordered the remand of Olalekan Ogunyemi, a dismissed police inspector, in prison custody for the murder of Kolade Johnson. The policeman, who was attached to the Anti-Cultism Unit of the Lagos State Police Command, had shot dead 36-year-old Johnson during a raid around a football viewing centre in the Onipetesi area of the state on Sunday. Kolade had gone to watch an English Premier League match in the area, some distance away from his residence when the incident happened. Ogunyemi, 45, was arraigned for murder on Friday hours after an orderly room trial found him guilty of unlawful use of firearms. The police prosecutor, Inspector Kehinde Olatunde, had told the court that the defendant committed the offence on March 31, at 5:10pm on Onipetesi Estate, Idi-Mangoro, Lagos. He said Ogunyemi used his Ak-47 rifle to kill Johnson, adding that the offence contravened Section 223 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2015. The plea of th...

President Muhammadu Buhari on Saturday in Dead Sea, Jordan, urged world leaders to work towards narrowing gaps in social and economic opportunities for citizens as panacea to rising conflicts across the globe. A statement by Mr Femi Adesina, the President’s Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, in Abuja on Saturday, said President Buhari stated this at the World Economic Forum on Middle East and North Africa. The President, who honoured an invitation by King Abdullah II bin Al-Hussein of Jordan, attributed the Boko Haram terrorism in Nigeria to lack of socio-economic inclusion. According to President Buhari, rising opportunities of prosperity for some people while others struggle to survive triggers tension and conflict. He said, “It is at this point that we must ask ourselves how we, as a region, got to this point. The answer, at least in the case of Nigeria, is the lack of social and economic inclusion. “ As Nigeria celebrated being the largest economy in Africa and one ...