LAGOS POLICE LAUNCH INVESTIGATION AS JEWELLER ACCUSES ITS OFFICERS OF HARASSMENT. (PHOTO).

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Lagos police launch investigation as jeweller  accuses its officers of harassment The Lagos State Police Command said it has commenced an investigation into a viral video of a jeweller accusing some policemen in the Festac area of the state of harassing him.  The command disclosed this in an X post on Saturday. The video, which circulated on X on Saturday morning, shows the businessman engaged in a struggle with some policemen. Later in the video, the businessman could be seen with a bloody face after allegedly sustaining a cut beside his right eye during the struggle with the police officers,  The jeweller later explained that the policemen from the Festac Division had stopped him for a routine search. He said the officers accused him of peddling drugs after finding a scale on him. “I went to deliver a necklace to someone when police officers stopped and searched me in Festac, Lagos. They found nothing on me but saw the scale I use to measure gold and accused me of using...

NIGERIAN SHOT-PUT ATHLETE CHUKWUEBUKA ENEKWECHI SAYS HE WAS GIVEN ONLY ONE KIT FOR THE OLYMPIC GAMES.{PHOTO}

Nigeria’s representative at the Shot Put event of the ongoing Tokyo Olympic Games, Chukwuebuka Enekwechi, revealed that he was only given one kit for the Games.


Enekwechi, on Tuesday, August 3, 2021, had a toss of 21.16 meters to finish seventh in qualifying and advance to the final as one of the best 12 competitors. 


 Ahead of the final, Big Chuk as he is fondly called took to his TikTok to shared a video of himself washing his kit.


“When you made the Olympic Finals but you only have one jersey,” he wrote on the video, which has caused an uproar on social media. 


Born and raised in America, Enekwechi chose to represent Nigeria and is the 2018 Commonwealth Games Silver medallist and reigning African Champion in the Shot Put.


He is also the 2019 African Games Champion and the reigning Nigerian National Sports Festival Champion.


This is the latest in the long lines of complaints from athletes representing Nigeria at the Tokyo Olympic Games.


10 athletes staged a protest at the Games after they were banned for not undergoing enough testing before the Games.


There was also an issue with complimentary phones given to athletes at the game, which some Nigerian representatives accused officials of trying to divert.


There have also been issues of non-payment of training grants and massive reduction of camp allowance by officials.

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