Photo: Police arrest suspected Fulani herdman who shot okada rider in attempt to snatch his motorcycle in Abia State

Men of the Abia State Police Command have arrested a Fulani herdsman identified as one Adamu Abubakar who shot a commercial motorcyclist popularly known as okada rider. It was gathered that on May 27, at about 2am, the okada rider, one Uyime a resident at Rubber Research Institute of Nigeria, Akwette reported that he conveyed two passengers later identified as Adamu Abubakar and one other now at large from Azumiri to Akwette.
Along the road, the duo attempted to snatch the motor-cycle from him and as he resisted, they shot at him. On May 28, detectives attached to Akwette Division with the help of Vigilante group combed the area and arrested Adamu Abubakar with one cut to size locally made pistol and its live cartridge while the other suspect escaped. The injured victim is receiving treatment in the hospital while effort is intensified toward the arrest of the fleeing suspect.

Photos/Video: Two alleged phone thieves nabbed by policemen and stripped naked along IIisan road, Ogun

As posted by Facebook user, Emmax;

"This guys were caught by Iperu police officers(patrol team) along Ilisan road. They were caught with eighteen(18) different phones picked from pockets and bags of people in Babcock University (main campus) but the bike man carrying them escaped. Let still give Kuddos to the policemen". More photos and the video after the cut...

WTF? Lol. Commercial driver in Owerri tries to get himself run over by vehicle than follow police traffic wardens to station

There was drama yesterday, around Okigwe roundabout, Owerri when a commercial bus driver attempted to commit suicide by lying under a moving vehicle to be run over rather than follow Police Traffic Wardens to their office.

According to reports, the bus driver was allegedly beaten to pulp for refusing to follow the traffic wardens, who had already taken his bus to their station at Shell Camp.

Music+ Gets Global Recognition

Africa’s largest digital music service, Music+, powered by leading ICT company, MTN Nigeria, has won the award for ‘Digital Content Services of the Year’ in the 2016 edition of the Global Telecoms Awards (GLOTEL) that held in London recently.

Now in its 4th year, the highly coveted Glotel Awards which is organized by ‘Telecoms.com’ rewards innovative companies across the telecoms industry worldwide. 

The award organisers particularly lauded MTN for being consistently innovative in deploying music as a platform to give other value added services like the highly successful Caller Ring Back Tunez (CRBT) to its teeming subscribers.

MTN Nigeria’s General Manager, Consumer Marketing, Richard Iweanoge, said that the growing impact of digital music distribution across the globe as well as MTN’s desire to provide a platform for music content owners to monetize their works necessitated the creation of Music+. He added that the award affirms Music+’s position as Africa’s foremost digital music content service since it debuted.

Music+ aggregates music from established and upcoming acts and delivers same to music lovers across the continent on their mobile devices. Subscribers can stream, download and create their unique playlist on the platform. To download the app, simply send ‘Music’ to 5900 or search through respective app stores on mobile devices 

The service also engages music lovers through its themed campaigns which includes ‘Music+ Next Rated Campaign,’ ‘Music+ Noiseless Concerts,’ ‘Music+ Unplugged Thursdays’ amongst others.