For leading an illegal duty, a Police Inspector and three other police officers are in soup in Ondo state Police Command.

ACTIVITIES of cult groups in some major towns in Ondo state has continued to attract public outcry in the last few months.

On May 23, 2014, when Mr. Sunday Obi, a retired staff of Chevron Company Ltd, Warri was served breakfast by his wife, Dora, little did he knew that that was going to be his last meal on earth. The late Obi was alleged to have been served acid instead of water to go along with the food. Two of his sons are fingered as among the three suspects.

Preparations for the dedication of the two months old son of Mrs Loricia Onunkwo, a Bauchi-based Igbo business woman, scheduled to take place on Sunday, November 9 at the Our Lady of Loretto Catholic Church, Fadama Mada Parish, Bauchi, turned to a nightmare for the Onunkwo family when the nursing mother was brutally killed by gunmen .

Controversy is trailing the alleged indefinite detention, extortion and gross abuse of human rights by some policemen attached to the Special Anti-Robbery Squad, SARS, Ikeja, Lagos, against one Ekenechukwu Uwakwe, a motorcycle spare parts dealer at Ebute-Meta, Lagos.

Mr. Eduardo Cue is the international affairs editor with the French network France24.

The Mexican born graduate of the School of Journalism, Colombia University, in this interview, relives his experience as an international journalist. He also speaks on terrorism.

The existence of militant groups is not a new phenomenon in Africa but their increasing presence and violence has become a growing concern for countries in the continent. As a result of religious fundamentalism, tribal and ethnic tension, continued regional and political instability, and the extremist ideologies of groups to establish new states and reform old ones, Africa offers fertile ground for extremism.

It came like a friendly call, but ended up as the last call for Asomugha Ndubuisi, 25, a technician with a Suleja based private company. The ugly incident which took place on Tuesday, September 30, 2014, climaxed with Ndubuisi being dumped in the morgue.

A FEMALE robbery suspect, Joy Ugoro and three other accomplices, Eso Esoh Ekoh, Imoke Bassey, and Emmanuel Ohi Euba, said to be members of a notorious robbery gang in Calabar have been arrested by the Police in Cross River State.

The last thing on the mind of 44-year-old Philip Ewowo, as he walked home after the close of work last Friday, was not to end up being a victim of the lingering war between factions of social miscreants and rival cultists in Amukoko area of Lagos.

Residents of Erukun community in Itori, Ewekoro Local government Area of Ogun State, were jolted over the weekend after detectives stormed the area and arrested suspected members of a syndicate that hide under the cover of spiritualism to swindle unsuspecting members of the public.

A chance meeting with the newly posted police boss in Delta state, Alkali Baba Usman, was as astonishing as it was eventful. The soft-spoken officer displayed unusual candour rare among most of his colleagues. In fact, he behaved as if he had met a long-time friend

A suspected robber identified as James Olanrewaju said to be terrorizing residents of Ijora, Yaba, and it’s environs, has been arrested by operatives of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad, SARS, Ikeja, Lagos

The Police in Akure, Ondo state, recently made a breakthrough by arresting 34 suspected criminals involved in various misdemeanors in and around the state. Among those arrested were suspected cultists,internet/cyber fraudsters, armed robbers and receivers of stolen vehicles.

Detectives attached to the International Criminal Police, INTERPOL, of the Nigeria Police have commenced investigation into circumstances surrounding the unlawful transfer of the sum of $180,000 at the Festac branch of Keystone bank in Lagos to a Chinese firm in spite of express instructions to halt the transfer of the funds