The Lagos State Government on Thursday arraigned 70 suspected cultists before Chief Magistrate Olufunke Sule-Amzat of the Ogudu Magistrate Court for conspiracy to commit felony and for holding a meeting of an unlawful society suspected to be AIYE Confraternity.

In view of the recent development in the state whereby some youths in Aguda Surulere, Itire and Akala-Mushin areas of Lagos State engaged in acts of brigandage, sell and use of illicit drugs, cultism, unlawfully possessing and using firearms to fight rival cult groups, the Commissioner of Police, Lagos State, CP Edgal Imohimi on Wednesday, 28th February, 2018, met with stakeholders, traditional rulers and opinion leaders of Itire community, in Itire/Ikate LCDA.

Troops of 23 Bde deployed Wukari on Ex-Ayem Akpatuma and team of Department of State Service from Jalingo conducted a cordon and search within Takum on Saturday 24 February 2018.

OPERATIVES of the Rivers State Police Command have arrested a cleric, who murdered his pregnant lover, a nine-month-old child and one other lady in Rivers State.

Abuja—The Police Intelligence Response Team, IRT, under the office of Inspector General of Police, have arrested the ringleader of the herdsmen and three other kingpins, who carried out the killing of scores of Benue citizens, following the enactment of the law against open grazing by the Benue State government.

A 31-year-old choirmaster/teacher, David Eyo, Tuesday, was brought before an Ikeja Chief Magistrates’ Court in Lagos for allegedly defiling a 10-year-old pupil (name withheld) and infected her with Sexually Transmitted Disease (STD).

Two Policemen involved in the incident at Upper Igun area of Benin City that led to the alleged killing of a cab driver, David Okoniba, have appeared before the Justice Joseph Olubor-led Administrative Panel of Inquiry to give testimony of their involvement in the fracas which led to a clash between the Police and some youths in the state.

The police in Mushin, Lagos have raided the hideouts of suspected criminal in Akala area leading to the seizure of bails of Indian hemp hidden in Bibles, fruits and bags valued at N80million.

The Police on Thursday, arraigned four men in an Iyaganku Chief Magistrates’ court, for alleged unlawful possession of human parts.

The police in Enugu have arrested a woman and some of her relations over alleged murder of a senior staff of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation NNPC, Engineer Val Ossai, at Nsukka, Enugu State on Monday, January 22, 2018.

Mbiabam community in Ibiono near Uyo, the Akwa Ibom State capital, was, yesterday, thrown into mourning when a vulcaniser identified as Nkere Uta cold-bloodly killed his wife, Bella, a mother of five.

Abductors of Mrs Funmilayo Akpama, wife of the accountant of the Living Faith Church, Rantya have apologised to the family for killing their dog in the process.

THERE was tension at the Nnewi High Court premises yesterday during the arraignment of four suspects over the shooting at St Philips Catholic Church, Ozubulu in which 13 persons lost their lives on August 6, 2017, with a star witness, Mr. Chukwujekwu Eze narrating how one of the suspects invited him to participate in the attack against Chief Aloysius Ikegwuonu, popularly called Bishop over alleged unpaid debt.

Alfa Hammed Sulaiman, who says he buys human parts for N2,100 to make money rituals for clients, said he can tell the difference between the parts from a person intentionally killed and those from an exhumed corpse by smelling them.

Police in Mali said Thursday they had arrested eight people in connection with two gang rapes and a separate case of paedophilia, as campaigners urged the adoption of laws penalising gender-based violence.