Residents of Idikan Street in Akesan area of Lagos, are currently gripped with fear following the death of a 22-year-old lady who reportedly bled to death after allegedly taking some drugs to abort her five months old pregnancy.

Major-General Tajudeen Adeniyi Olanrewaju (rtd) seldom speaks. The Lagos prince, who made his marks in the nation’s defence sector as Commander, Corps of Artillery; General Officer Commanding (GOC), Three Division of the Nigerian Army, Jos; member, Provisional Ruling Council (PRC); was Chairman, Presidential Review Committee on the General Abisoye Panel report on the reforms of the NNPC and left the stage as Minister of Communications.

IT was celebration galore for the Joint Task Force JTF) in Niger-Delta, codenamed Operation Pulo Shield, when its troops, June 23, accosted some purported sea pirates in the creek of Bayelsa State and shot dead six of them in a supposed gun battle, while the seventh suspect, who escaped with bullet wounds, later died.

Two years ago, sympathizers thronged the densely populated Amukoko, Lagos abode of Mrs Cordelia Nnozirim, to console her over the death of her husband. As she sat at a corner in the one-room apartment located on Fijabi street, the distraught widow merely gave a blank stare at everyone around, as she apparently thought of how she would single-handedly take care of her six children.

When news of a robbery attack on a Thermocool outlet at Bolade-Oshodi area of Lagos State, where a whopping sum of N8 million was carted away and five persons, including three policemen and a pregnant woman lost their lives, broke last November, the police in Lagos State knew they were in for a difficult case.