A 29-year-old dismissed Police Constable who was arrested while escorting a tanker carrying 33,000 litres of petroleum products suspected to have been siphoned from illegal refineries in Lagos, recently, made startling revelations on how he had been engaged in illegal oil bunkering for 12 years with his collegues. The suspect, Abdulrasaq Samma, who hails from Karilamido in Taraba State, disclosed that he started by escorting militants in the creeks, while still in service. During such operations which were usually carried out at night, Samma said he and other policemen usually followed militants and illegal bunkerers to oil wells located in creeks in the Niger Delta region where crude oil is drilled.

For being told she was HIV positive, a 46-year-old woman, Celestina Mamah, allegedly stabbed herself to death in Udenu Local Government Area, Enugu State. According to Enugu State Police Command spokesman, SP Ebere Amaraizu, the woman left her home at about 6p.m., headed for a forest near Ogwu Rest House in the area, where it was alleged that she stabbed herself to death with a knife.

A fake herbalist, yesterday, made a startling revelation of how a staff of one of the new generation banks approached him for money ritual. Vanguard gathered that the suspect, Seyi Ade, a holder of the Ordinary National Diploma, OND, in Business Administration, of the Ibadan Polytechnic, collected N2.5 million from the banker to prepare the concoction two months ago.

Mr. Yomi Badejo-Okusanya, a strategic communications expert and PR practitioner was, weekend elected President of Africa Public Relations Association, APRA, the continent’s Public Relations professional regulatory body.

Members of the Lagos State House of Assembly, yesterday decried the shortage of water supply in the state.

According to him, “nuclear acquisition has come to stay. It is well known that it contributes quite a chunk of global electricity. Although Nigeria does have other sources of energy, but this is about a balanced and diversified energy basket. Nuclear happens to be the one we considered. “The preference is because it is environmentally friendly and leads to a better conservation of other resources”.

GOVERNOR Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta State and his predecessor, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan, Tuesday, mutually commissioned projects at Agbor, Ika South Local Government Area of the state.

The Tablet Business unit of technology giant, Tecno last week in Lagos released Pad Phone device, the Droipad 7 II phablet device.