The reportedly drunk policeman caught on camera around Akowonjo, Dopemu area of Lagos State, was dismissed by the Police authorities yesterday.

ABEOKUTA—There was pandemonium, yesterday, in Ebute community on Oja- Odan road, Yewa North local government area of Ogun state, as operatives of Nigeria Customs Service reportedly shot dead a 25-year-old man, identified as Kehinde.

The Kaduna State Command of the State Security Services (SSS) said it had arrested six suspected kidnappers and killers of Agwom Adara, the paramount ruler of Adara Chiefdom in Kaduna, Mr Maiwada Galadima.

A Badagry Chief Magistrates’ Court in Lagos State on Wednesday granted a reprieve to a 43-year-old, Odutayo Odufote, charged with N6.66 million theft.

The Nigeria Police Force said it had commenced investigation on the alleged assassination attempt on Deputy President of the Senate Ike Ekweremadu.

Officers of kwara state police command are still battling to recover the placenta of a new born baby allegedly sold to a Muslim cleric in ilorin for ritual purposes by a Nurse attendant in a private hospital in Ilorin

The University of Abuja Teaching Hospital (UATH) Gwagwalada, Abuja, has commended the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) for suspending its proposed strike.

Evil visited Benue State on Friday night in the form of a mother of three, Mrs. Veronica Adetsav, who reportedly hacked her husband to death, slaughtered her three young children and, then, took her own life.

One week after Dr. Maiwada Galadima, a first class traditional ruler of Adara Chiefdom in Kaduna State was gruesomely murdered, after he was kidnapped alongside his wife and several others by a gang of armed men who attacked him along the Kachia- Kaduna highway, the police high command in Abuja, has vowed not to rest until his killers were brought to justice.

Boko Haram terrorist, numbering over 200 have, Wednesday evening, attacked some villages near Maiduguri, Borno state and killed no fewer than 15 persons.

The Commander, Guards Brigade, Brigadier General Umar T. Musa on Wednesday described the Islamic Movement of Nigeria (IMN) also known as Shiites, as a group that is not law abiding, whose various actions have impeded the rights and privileges of law abiding citizens.

Notorious Boston gangster James “Whitey” Bulger was found dead on Tuesday at a prison in West Virginia, one day after he was transferred to the high-security facility to serve the remainder of two life sentences for a string of brutal crimes, the Federal Bureau of Prisons said.

The Standards Organisation of Nigeria, SON, has arraigned a businessman, Ogbo Tochukwu, at the Federal High Court in Lagos for breaking into his warehouse that the agency sealed, to steal seized substandard goods.

Jayi community on the outskirts of Abuja has not remained the same since two children, age five and three, were reportedly abducted by a strange man from a football field in the area about a week ago.

A former Speaker of Lagos State House of Assembly, Mr. Joko Pelumi, has been arrested alongside 49 other suspected cultists by Lagos State Police Command over the murder of a Deputy Superintendent of Police in Lagos.