Attempt by a six -man robbery gang to divert a 40ft-container loaded with NAN infant formula last Tuesday failed after Police arrested four suspected members of the gang. Among those arrested were, a foreigner and a 49-year-old woman.
ONE of the victims, a motorcyclist Chidi Oformata, met his untimely death in February 2010 at Oke-Afa, near the General Hospital, Isolo. He was said to be conveying one Okoro Humphrey of12, Moriamo Sanni Street, Ijegun Road to Ladipo market when some LASTMA officials attached to Ejigbo division allegedly flagged him down before a quarrel ensued.
The Lagos State Traffic Management Authority (LASTMA) is again in the news on a sad note, following the death of a bus conductor last Thursday at old toll gate along the Lagos/Ibadan expressway.
IN 1996, the word Otokoto made a spectacular entry into the lexicon of Nigeria’s public discourse. It emanated from the dark days of ritual killings by a section of the underworld in Owerri, the capital of Imo State. It took the murder of one Master Okonkwo by ritual killers for public attention to be forcibly drawn to the existence of such atrocious crime in the other wise sedate city of Owerri.
Two months of renewed onslaught against criminals and violent crimes across Benue State by the new Commissioner of Police in charge of the state, Mr. John Haruna has yielded an unprecedented results with the avalanche of arrests of men of the underworld in parts of the state.
THERE was pandemonium, yesterday, at the Barracks axis of Lagos-Badagry Expressway, Lagos State, when a police corporal attached to Onireke Division, shot and killed a 56-year-old man, Daniel Nigeria, inside a commercial bus. The policeman, identified as Kazeem Shittu, with Force number 3538000, was trying to extort N50 from the bus conductor.
CALABAR—The Cross River State Police Command at the weekend paraded two persons suspected to be armed robbery kingpins terrorizing residents of Ugep in Yakurr and Obubra Local Government Areas as well as parts of Ebonyi State.
Two months of renewed onslaught against criminals and violent crimes across Benue State by the new Commissioner of Police in charge of the state, Mr. John Haruna has yielded an unprecedented results with the avalanche of arrests of men of the underworld in parts of the state.
FRAUDSTERS have devised new methods of dispossessing victims of their cash and valuables in Lagos State and its environs. Unlike in the past when they sweet-talked their unsuspecting victims into parting with large sums of money in the guise of either doubling it or providing contacts that would facilitate the purchase of imported electronic items at cheaper rates, they now openly threaten and even rape their victims into submission.
Last Monday’s celebration of Eid-El-Maulud, which marks the birth of Prophet Mohammed, did not go down completely peaceful in some parts Lagos, as fighting erupted between street urchins at Jibowu-Fadeyi area of the state who engaged themselves in a bloody fracas over a yet-to -determined circumstance. At the end of the mayhem that accompanied the gang war, over 30 persons were reportedly injured while scores of vehicles were damaged.
IT was end of the road, weekend, for two suspected assassins in Lagos as they were felled by police bullets after a fierce gun battle. The two suspects said to have been on the wanted list of the Lagos State police command, were alleged to be behind several murder cases in Ikorodu, an outskirt of Lagos.
