In furtherance of the implementation of security arrangement directed by Inspector General of Police, IGP Ibrahim Idris for the Christmas and New Year festivity period and beyond, police operatives have arrested 30 vicious criminals including armed robbery, kidnapping suspects, cultists among others terrorizing Kogi, Edo, and Abuja Highways.

The Lagos State Police Command yesterday, opened up on what it termed the true position on the death of a 37 -year-old suspected cultist, Akeem Abudu ,  who was arrested  last year  in Imota , Ikorodu area of Lagos ,   describing allegation that the deceased was tortured to death  inside its cell as false.

Two commercial bus drivers, who allegedly drove their vehicles recklessly and caused the death of a bus conductor, were, yesterday, charged before an Ebute Meta Magistrate’s Court in Lagos.

HE business of exchanging Naira mint during the Christmas and New Year celebrations had been on over the years, especially in Anambra State where people usually show off with such mints by spraying the celebrants at ceremonies. In the past, commercial banks used to supply such mints to their customers during this time of the year, but somehow, the mints disappeared from the banks.

THE Inspector General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, has barred operatives of the controversial Police Special Anti-Robbery Squad, SARS, from conducting stop and search on roads.

The popular ritual cult, Badoo, and another cult group, strike Thursday, killing four persons including a family of three in Ikorodu and Ojo Local Governments in Lagos State.

Pirates have kidnapped 10 sailors from a merchant ship off the coast of southern Nigeria in the latest attack in the restive region, the International Maritime Bureau said on Thursday.

The Lagos State Government on Wednesday arraigned a brother of late founder of Guaranty Trust Bank (GTB) and property developer, David Olumide Aderinokun and a staff of the New Town Development Authority (NTDA), Balogun Adeniyi Abdul-Wakil before an Igbosere Magistrate Court over alleged conspiracy, forgery, stealing and property fraud on parcels of land in Lekki Peninsula estimated at 2678.068 square metres.

Gunmen, suspected to be kidnappers, have abducted Mrs Tina Inegbagha, wife of Paramount ruler in Ayakoro Community in Ogbia Local Government Area of Bayelsa, and Mr Egele Jack, the Principal of Government Craft Development Centre, Ayakoro. .

The National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, yesterday, promised to ensure that justice was done in the case of a corps member, Modupe Tawose, who was raped and killed on December 9 in Ogun.

A middle aged man alleged to have forged the letter headed paper of the Presidency with the name of a former Chief of Staff to the President with an intent to defraud others over a nonexistent oil deal, was on Monday sent to Prison, as the trial opened in Abuja.

A Nigerien man stabbed two Danish journalists in Gabon, allegedly saying it was a revenge attack against the United States for recognising Jerusalem as Israel’s capital.

A newly-wedded bride in Sokoto, Shafa Muhammad, 28, has attacked her husband with a razor blade and injured him on the head.

The Lagos State Traffic Management Authority (LASTMA) has arrested five of its traffic officials for extorting motorists last week at various parts of the State.

Like a clairvoyant, Lagos  State Commissioner of Police, Imohimi Edgal, held the bull by the horns, just few weeks after assuming office at the command headquarters, Ikeja.