A rumour that spread across the length and breadth of Ibadan metropolis Tuesday that a bomb planted by unknown person could explode anytime resulted in a stampede at the Iwo Road interchange, the notorious place where members of the National Union of Road Transport Workers in the state unleashed terror on some innocent people two weeks ago.

ANOTHER staff of Shell Petroleum Development Company, SPDC, was Tuesday evening, abducted by unknown gunmen along Ohore road, off the ever busy Effurun/ Sapele express road in Delta State.

The Police at Force headquarters have uncovered a transfer scam running into about N20million, whereby an inspector and four other officers collected sums ranging between N30, 000 and N50, 000 to fraudulently post officers out of or back to their former positions after they had been officially posted to other commands.

Respite came the way of the embattled former minister of works, Dr. Hassan Lawal, Tuesday, as he was granted bail by a Federal High Court in Abuja, after he had spent 35 days at the Kuje maximum prison.

FIVE unknown gunmen have kidnapped the 83-year old mother of the National Legal Adviser of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Chief Olusola Oke.

Madam Mariam Oke was abducted in her son’s country home in Igbokoda, in the oil rich Ilaje Council area of Ondo State.