Kosofe Reporters

A community leader, Mr. Oluwaseun Salami, has asked the Lagos State Commissioner of Police to investigate the shooting incident involving his brother's wife and the men of Nigeria Police Force along Ikorodu-,Itoikin road. Mr. Salami, in a petition dated 29th November 2021 and titled: "Report of Police Misconduct and Shooting of Innocent Citizen Along Ikorodu- itoikin Road, Ikorodu Lagos State"', discloses that his brother's wife was shot by one of the police officers stationed at a checkpoint at Parafa-Lucky Fibre along Ikorodu-Itoikin road. He explains that the incident occurred on Sunday, November 28, 2021, around 8 pm when the Policemen operating at the checkpoint were locked in an argument with some Tricycle operators over "bribe issue".  He says sooner had his brother, Ibrahim Salami, driven about 5 to 10 meters away from the checkpoint when the wife suddenly shouted gunshot with blood gushing from the part of the...

    Three people on trial for the alleged murder of a 400-level Lagos State University (LASU) student, Favour Daley-Oladele, have been remanded in prison. The trio – a prophet, Segun Philip; a woman, Bola Adeeko; and her son, Owolabi Adeeko – were on Friday arraigned before an Osun State High Court sitting in Osogbo, the Osun State capital over the murder. The prosecutor from the Ministry of Justice, Kemi Bello, had brought the suspects before the court on two counts of conspiracy and murder. The charge was not read for the three accused persons and they did not have counsel. The presiding Judge, Justice Grace Onibokun adjourned the matter to March 3rd and 10th, 2021 for hearing and ordered they should be remanded in a Correctional Facility. The Ogun State Police Command arrested the self-acclaimed prophet alongside Owolabi over the killing of Daley-Oladele a final year Sociology student at the Lagos State University. After the arrest, Owolabi narrated how he used his girlfrie...

Nobody saw a billionaire in Hushpuppi some 15 years ago when he roamed the dusty streets of Oworonshoki, Lagos, looking to wash cars for a paltry N100, and later returning to a food joint where he had beans and bread on credit.  In a philosophical reflection, using himself as a case study, he touched on how a child could feel rejected because of his poor background in his widely circulated 2017 “Letter to the Ghetto Kid”. It was about the same year Hushpuppi became a household name, as he had started using his social media page to flaunt his wealth.  With a sense of pride, Ramon Abass, whose dad drove a taxi and mum sold bread by the roadside in Oworonshoki, would say he represents “every underprivileged kid of the world and especially of Nigeria and of Lagos and of Bariga and of Oworonshoki — where a landlord had chased me and my family out of a rented room.”  Of course, now sounding like someone who has made it in life, he concluded by advising t...