OKPE—A Delta State High Court sitting in Oreropke has slammed a N3 million judgment against the state’s Commissioner of Police and three others policemen as punitive damage for assaulting and detaining an accountant, Mr. Irhirhi Edesiri, for allegedly videoing them at a checkpoint.

The Police in Lagos said, yesterday, that 150 suspected cultists and kidnappers were arrested in the last one year in Epe community.

AKURE—IT has emerged that four National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, members survived the River Mayo-Selbe disaster in which nine others drowned, by standing on a rock for hours, while the waves swept their colleagues away.

A Private with the Nigerian Army has been arrested during an alleged foiled attempt to snatch a motorcycle from its rider in Agboju area of Lagos.

Operatives of the Inspector General Police, IGP, Monitoring Unit and its Police Intelligence Unit, have busted criminal havens in Rivers State and arrested no fewer than 12 suspects terrorising parts of the state.

Twin brothers, Taiwo and Kehinde Akintade, 34, and six others, were yesterday arraigned before a Lagos Magistrate’s Court, sitting at Igbosere, over alleged diversion of cashew nuts worth N31,788,000,040.

After being caught in the act for defiling his two-year-old pupil, a 27-year-old teacher, Afeez Balogun, is to cool his heels in prison in the next 24 days, an Ikeja Chief Magistrates’ Court ruled on Tuesday.

A German court handed down lengthy jail sentences Tuesday to a couple for repeatedly sexually abusing their young son and selling him to paedophiles online, in a shocking case that raised pointed questions about the competence of child protection services.

BENIN—THE 32-year-old pastor of a Pentecostal church, Ngbeken Elvis, has been arrested over the death of 38 years old mother of four, simply identified as Mama Sarah, following complications from an abortion.

ABUJA—National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, has declared a three-day mourning for the nine NYSC members that drowned, weekend, in River Mayo-Selbe near Gashaka Local Government Area of Taraba State.

Lagos—The Police, yesterday, arraigned a 24-year-old barber, David Jude, who allegedly abducted and raped a 16-year-old girl, before a Lagos Magistrate’s court sitting at Ajegunle.

OPERATIVES of Kogi State Police Command have arrested five suspects said to be behind the kidnap of a traditional ruler, a catholic cleric and the recent spate of robberies on Okene-Lokoja Road.

A 45-year-old housewife, Hadijat Kabir, arrested by Police in Lagos for allegedly faking her kidnap and that of her 18-year-old daughter to defraud her husband of N15 million, claimed she committed the act because her husband took a second wife and abandoned them.

Bauchi State government – owned Abubakar Tatari Ali Polytechnic (ATAP) says it has engaged the services of the Independent Corrupt Practices and other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) and the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) to check the disturbing practice of forgery of the institution’s certificates.

A 51-year-old man, Hakeem Garba, who allegedly defrauded 300 people of N20 million on pretext of building apartments for them, on Monday appeared before a Yaba Chief Magistrates’ Court, Lagos.