A young mechanic known only as Samson has lost his life in Lagos after falling into a deadly trap in Ibeju-Lekki. According to The Punch Newspape r, Samson owned a small workshop around Warike Estate in Abijo. On Tuesday, September 15, he received a call to come and fix a Mercedes-Benz somewhere in the area. Thinking it was a normal job, he left his shop to attend to the customer. But it was a setup. A police source revealed that when Samson arrived at the location, he was pulled into a nearby bush and brutally hacked to death. The police said they are still trying to piece together what exactly happened and who carried out the killing, although cultists are suspected to be behind it. An anti-cultism advocacy group, in a post on Thursday, said the murder was a revenge mission. The group explained that Samson was killed to avenge the death of an Eiye cult member, Ola Sheu, who was allegedly murdered by members of the rival NBM group on September 9 near Adeba Bus Stop in Lakowe, also in ...

  O yo State Governor Seyi Makinde, the Allied Peoples Movement, APM, and its presidential candidate have sued Abia State Governor Alex Otti over the N200 million fee imposed on presidential candidates to display campaign billboards in the state. The suit, marked HC/214/2026, was filed at the Abia State High Court by their lawyer, Musibau Adetunbi, SAN. Joined as defendants are the state's Attorney General, the Abia State Signage and Advertisement Agency, ASAA, and the House of Assembly. The plaintiffs said they discovered the fee while preparing for their nationwide campaign and described it as illegal, unconstitutional and contrary to the Electoral Act 2026. They raised six questions for determination and are seeking eight reliefs, including an order nullifying ASAA's regulation imposing N200 million, or any fee at all, on presidential candidates, and an injunction stopping the defendants from enforcing the fee or removing and obstructing their billboards. They want the court...