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By   Deji Lambo A trader, Wasiu Oduwole, has demanded justice after a traditional ruler, Nureni Oduwaye, allegedly kicked his eye at the Moore Blessing Hotel, Ikenne, in the Sagamu Local Government Area of Ogun State. The victim claimed he could no longer see with the eye. PUNCH Metro  gathered that Oduwaye perpetrated the act after allegedly accusing Wasiu of dancing with his queen during a birthday celebration at the hotel. The monarch, his queen, alongside other guests, were said to have been invited by the celebrant, identified simply as Iya Alaje. Before the celebration commenced, Wasiu told our correspondent that the owner of the hotel, Yakub Omobolanle, contracted him to prepare 14 plates of catfish pepper soup for the guests. The trader said he had visited the hotel to commence preparation when he realised that the ingredients for the pepper soup were not enough. “So, I decided to manage the ingredients because the distance of the hotel to the market is far. We we...

No fewer than three policemen were said to have been abducted in broad daylight by some unknown gunmen in Ogun State. It was gathered that the police officers were abducted on Thursday at Wasinmi, in Ewekoro Local Government Area of Ogun State. The cops were the State from Zone 2, Onikan, Lagos State, for an investigation. They were said to have been duly booked  at the police division in Wasinmi, before they left for their place of primary assignment. A reliable source told our correspondent that the officers, led by Inspector Oladipo Olayemi, were captured on the road by their abductors, who accosted them at about 2:30pm. It was gathered that the commercial driver, who conveyed the cops escaped by a whisker from the kidnappers. It was further gathered that the Divisional Police Officer in Ewekoro had led his men in searching for the missing policemen. When contacted, the Ogun State Police spokesman, Abimbola Oyeyemi, confirmed that “people were kidnapped, but only one policeman i...