A syndicate which specialised in cloning fast moving drugs, among which are locally manufactured anti malaria and pain relief drugs, has been smashed by the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration, NAFDAC, in Lagos, following the arrest of one of its suspected members.

For sometime now, residents of Adekunle Street, Isolo Lagos, have been going through untold torture in the hands of robbers who operate on motorcycles. Majority of the victims are women, whose hand bags were snatched, immediately they alighted from commercial buses at their designated bus-stops. Some of them reportedly sustained severe injuries in the process.

Like a little bush fire turned into a ravaging inferno, the discovery of two dead Fulani cows,allegedly poisoned in Zankan, an uphill village in Fadan Atakad Chiefdom, Kaura Local Government Area of Kaduna State, ignited a bloodbath in Atakad villages in Kaduna and Plateau States in the past three weeks.

A thirty-year-old man, whose name was simply given as Rowland, is now in police custody in Calabar for allegedly raping a thirteen-year-old girl.

Shock and disbelief could best describe the expression on the face of Mrs Owoduni, a popular caterer in Ajah area of the Lagos, who was abducted in February, 2013, following discovery that her abduction was masterminded by his ex-driver.

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On Tuesday, Lagos State Police Command, paraded seven suspects of a robbery gang that attacked the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, MMIA, Lagos, last month, killed two policemen and injured several others.

This is the concluding part of the police report on the investigation into the murder of Mr Olaitan Oyerinde, principal secretary to Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State, presented at the public hearing of the House of Representatives Committee on Public Petitions

At 46, Henry Okah, a visible face in the struggle in the Niger Delta for equality and social justice, is to spend 24 years in jail in South Africa. Unless there is an intervention that favours him at the appellate court, what this means is that he will become a free man in his 60s.

Fear rules here. The signs are everywhere. Any vehicle that comes around to drop passengers intending to catch a bus out of Abuja is looked at with suspicion. And unlike the former practice, touts here no longer run after approaching vehicles as they scout for passengers. They allow the vehicles to stop and the passengers out before meeting them. Indeed the fear of suicide bomber operating in a vehicle has become the beginning of wisdom for touts at the Jabi Motor Park, Utako, Abuja since the bombing at the Sabon Gari Motor Park, Kano which claimed scores of lives.

This is bizarre but true. A two-month -old girl was arrested and paraded in lieu of her father who was suspected to be a dare-devil robber. The mother was taken into custody along the toddler identified as Oyinkansola. It happened in Ogun State.

Policemen stormed the residence of the alleged armed robber, Ismail Adeosun, at Ago-Ika in Abeokuta North local government area and, because they could not find the suspect, they arrested every Adeosun available.