Seven suspected criminals, who took part in kidnappings, armed robberies and pipeline vandalism in Ikorodu, Arepo and Ibafo areas of Lagos and Ogun states, have been arrested by the police.

With pressures from an economy in recession it was not surprising that President Muhammadu Buhari in letting off steam inveighed against what he claimed as the decadence left for him by 16 years of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP in power.

Economic recession is a merciless monster which devours just about everybody, especially the most socially and economically vulnerable. In just about every society in Africa, women and children constitute the most vulnerable, even in the best of times. They are, once again, set to be the worst-hit victims of the just confirmed recession.

Worried by the accusation emanating from one Alhaji Sodu,an Enugu-based Fulani herdsman who claimed over the weekend that three of his sons and over 100 cows were missing, an aftermath of an alleged attack by Aku community youths, the entire Aku Welfare Association Federated, AWAF, yesterday, disassociated the community from such nefarious activities.

Wife of Borno State governor, Hajiya Nana Kashim Shettima, yesterday hosted about 500 children, mainly orphans, drawn from four internally-displaced persons, IDPs, camps in Maiduguri metropolis and Jere Local Govern-ment Area as part of Eid el-Kabir celebration.