When Mr. Sunday Otasi, a father of three and resident of Yenigwe on the outskirts Yenagoa, went to his rustic hometown, Agbobiri, in Okordia clan, Yenagoa Local Government Area of Bayelsa State, last week, to take with him his three teenage children, namely Success, 14, Miracle, 12, and Godstime, 10, to Yenagoa, many of his kinsmen thought he may have finally reconciled with them after many years of rejection.

A 73 year old woman, Mrs Cecilia Attah, has been reportedly killed by her son at Nru, in Nsukka Local Governments Area of Enugu State.

A 43-year-old Islamic studies teacher Abdulsalam Salaudeen has been arrested by the police for defiling a five-year-old girl.

THE new Commissioner of Police Ekiti State Command, Mr.  Asuquo Amba, yesterday, threw his weight behind community policing saying it remains the only panacea to the rising waves of crimes and all forms of criminality in the country.

Edo State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, has assured the state’s new Commissioner of Police, Hakeem Olusegun Odumosun, that the Edo State Security Architecture, will guarantee well-coordinated policing that will benefit from input from relevant stakeholders, especially local communities, in the state.

CALABAR—A 32-year-old graduate of Federal College of Education, FCE, Obudu, was reportedly roasted to death for allegedly harbouring his boyfriend, who reportedly murdered a commercial motorcycle operator (Okada) with a view to snatching his motorcycle.

THE Ondo State Police Command has arrested no fewer than 21 hoodlums allegedly involved in kidnapping, cultism, and robbery in the state.

The Edo State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, has urged the Edo State Commissioner of Police, Mr. Johnson Kokumo, to investigate the shooting incident at Ring Road, Benin City, on New Year’s Day, which reportedly claimed one life.

A bloody clash between suspected rival cult groups left one person dead on New Year’s Day in Badagry, Lagos State.

An Osun Magistrates’ Court sitting in Modakeke on Monday sentenced one Jimoh Oyemoni, 40, to three years imprisonment for raping an 80-year-old woman.

As she sauntered into the Corporate Headquarters of Vanguard, having been battered by the scourging sun, it was obvious that all was not well with the 30-year-old lady later identified as Ada Njoku.

Details emerged yesterday on how operatives of the Inspector General of Police Special Intelligence Response Team IRT, trailed and arrested two confirmed suspects who took part in the gruesome murder of former Chief of Defense Staff, Vice Air Marshal, Alex Badeh (RTD) who they attacked penultimate Tuesday on his way home from his farm on the Kaduna-Keffi Expressway, Nasarawa State.

Gunmen have killed five villagers in central Nigeria’s Plateau state, police said on Friday, but it was not immediately clear if the killings were linked to a long-running battle over grazing rights.

Edo State Commissioner of Police, Mr. Johnson Kokumo, has said the new security architecture and trust fund launched by Governor Godwin Obaseki, have positioned the police and other security agencies in the state to better fight crime.

An Ebute Meta Magistrates’ Court in Lagos on Friday ordered
a security guard, Usman Abdulkareem to be remanded at the Ikoyi Prison for allegedly killing his colleague.