The rate of insecurity in Ojo Local Government Area of Lagos State has reached an alarming stage. It has reached a point where kidnappers now lay siege to the creeks and around school premises to abduct pupils and other residents. The council, bordered by creeks and nicknamed by politicians as ‘Ojo Majority,’ has continued to record persistent kidnap cases which have thrown the communities into confusion.

The Association of Southeast Town Unions, ASETU, has said that the rejection of grazing reserve bill by the South-East, South-South lawmakers, was in consonance with the association’s stand on the matter.

Police Authorities in Enugu State have arrested three suspects, Onuoha Gloria ,Onwuameze Roseline and Thomas Nwigwe,over their alleged involvement in conspiracy and forgery of Office of the Governor’s letter head and signature.

FOLLOWING advice by the Joint Military Task Force in Plateau State, code-named Operation Safe Haven, the state government, yesterday, imposed a 24-hour curfew on Bokkos Local Government Area of the state, as aggrieved youths protested the killing of their paramount ruler, the Saf Ron/Kulere, Dah Lazarus Agai, by suspected herdsmen.

A Niger Delta militant group, Reformed Egbesu Boys, yesterday, said that militants in the region did not mandate the Niger Delta Dialogue Contact Group, NDDCG, led by former military governor of old Rivers State, HRM King Alfred Diete-Spiff to negotiate on their behalf with the Federal Government.