Esther Felix was a regular call girl at Pekas, a popular night club at the highbrow Allen Avenue, Ikeja, Lagos, until recently when she ran into trouble for organizing the abduction of one of her customers, who happened to be a citizen of the United States of America and the son of a Lagos-based business man (names withheld).
THE police in Enugu State are now trying the unravel the circumstances surrounding alleged stage-managed suicide of a 32-year-old house wife, Mrs Obioma Onuh on March 14, this year.
THE resounding gun shots from a four-man robbery gang on two commercial motorcycles popularly called okada, rattled residents of Apapa, last Thursday, with everyone taking to his heels. But at the centre of the scene of the gun shots was a woman who had gone to one of the new generation banks around Calcutta Crescent to withdraw an unspecified amount of money. The robbers who apparently laid ambush for her, opened fire to scare away intruders and dispossessed the helpless and fear-stricken woman of the withdrawn cash.
Anyone who comes across Ramoni Raji, on his grey-coloured Nigeria Customs Service uniform and the rank of Deputy Superintendent on his shoulders, would pass him for a real custom officer. Unfortunately, the reverse is the case for the 60-year-old man whose stock-in-trade is to swindle prospective buyers of auctioned goods from the customs.
What would have turned into a deadly confrontation between operatives of the Nigeria Custom Service at Idi-Iroko border in Ogun State and men of the Nigeria Police Force was averted by shear providence. The experience of a police officer, Inspector Frances Ononiwu, attached to the Border Patrol Unit of the force in the hands of Custom officers manning check points at Ilase axis of Idiroko Road, Ogun State, may have been the triggering force, after the Police officer was accosted at Ilase by Custom officers and it almost degenerated into a deadly war.
Ordinarily, his frail look will readily counter the offense for which he is being held. But he is stronger and even much younger in speech, albeit his age. Pa Mathew Agbe is 69 and a security guard with the National Museum Benin city, the Edo state capital. Sadly, he may be confined in prison custody for the remaining part of his life, for a first degree murder except the court says otherwise.
THe General Secretary of the NKST Synod, Rev. Peter Azuana was yesterday rescued from the jaws of death by officers of the Benue State Police Command after he was attacked by a four-man armed gang at Gboko, Benue State.
DESCRIBE it with whatever adjective; incest, abomination , absurdity etc, one thing is clear: for a father to conceive in whatever guise, strip her daughter naked and sleep with her, the same daughter who is a product of his semen is nothing short of insanity.
EXCEPT by legal abracadabra, Chinonye Lucky, a 26 -year- old mother of two who is also expecting her third child, may spend the rest of her life behind bars for a first degree murder. She is currently at the custody of the homicide department of the Edo state Police command, Benin city, where detectives are already putting finishing touches to her cases file. She is due for arraignment any moment from now for allegedly poisoning a 16- month-old baby boy with a killer chemical while the mother of the baby was away to fetch water.
THE increasing rate of criminal activities in Mafoluku/Oshodi and Shogunle areas of Lagos State is taken a new dimension. It has heightened the fears of the residents as different criminal activities ranging from robbery, theft and vandalisation of cables of Power Holding Company, Nigeria, PHCN, and nocturnal attacks by hoodlums popularly called area boys, have resurfaced.
