The peace enjoyed by residents of Idomila community, located off Agbara Igbesa area of Ogun State, was, in the early hours of Monday, suspended following sporadic gun shots which jolted the residents from sleep.

The gun shots, described as one of the worst in the history of the community, were initially concluded to be from robbers. But when the dust settled, it was discovered to be a gun duel between operatives of Anti-Robbery Squad, SARS, Ikeja and suspected members of a notorious kidnap syndicate that used a building in the community as hideout.

More light has been shed on how suspected Fulani insurgents who raided some villages in Langtang South Local Government Area of Plateau State on Thursday engaged members of the Special Task Force (STF) maintaining security in the state in cross fire for over two hours.

There was pandemonium at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital, LUTH, Idi-Araba, Lagos, on Monday June 24, 2013, following a breakdown of law and order at the Federal health institution’s Accident and Emergency (A & E) ward in the outpatient’s department.

FOLLOWING the arrest, last week, of the owner of a Lagos-based hospital, Doctor Babawale Joshua for allegedly mutilating the corpse of a 13-month-old baby boy in his hospital, a 37-year- old woman identified as Cordelia Ifechukwude, has alleged that she suffered similar fate at the medical centre.

A LAGOS based Legal firm, Abayomi Iyasele & Associates has petitioned the Inspector- General of Police, Alhaji Mohammed Abubakar, over alleged fraud by an estate agent (names withheld) who allegedly swindled a United States based firm the sum of N4, 499,00.00.

THE last may not have been heard on the gruesome murder of Johnson Idima Ukariwe, 44, at Obigbo, a crime currently being investigated by the Rivers State Criminal Investigations Department, CID, Port Harcourt, Rivers State. The deceased lived with his adopted half brother, Innocent Ebi Ukariwe, 58, his wife, Nnenna, and their children at No. 4, Umusawyer Street, Obigbo.

Cultists unleashed terror in Benin-City, Edo State last week. Some persons were killed in the process creating fear in the minds of residents. Apart from the activities of the cultists, armed robbers, kidnappers and rapists struck in the state capital but luck ran out on them when a team of mobile policemen arrested them.

Operatives of the Special Anti Robbery Squad, SARS, Ikeja, Lagos have arrested a female house help who allegedly connived with her boyfriend and two fake soldiers to rob her master of over 100,000 Dollars.

THE father of nine-year-old, Oluwatimilehin Ebun, a Basic 3 student of Royal Scholars International school, Ikorodu, Lagos, who was allegedly killed by stray Police bullet has given reasons why he dumped the body of his son at Ketu Police station.

The Plateau State Commissioner of Police, Mr. Chris Olakpe recently paraded suspects said to belong to a 24-member criminal gang that specializes in snatching cars and driving them across the border to dispose. He disclosed that about 18 cars were recovered from them. Crime Alert spoke to two of the suspects who narrated their modus operandi.

Tension is high between the people of Adani, a community in Uzo-Uwani Local Government Area, Enugu State and Fulani herdsmen whom they alleged are committing criminal acts in their area. The situation has got so bad to the extent that the Police Area Commander in Nsukka, about 45 kilometres from the community, Ros- armson Haladu, an Assistant Commissioner of police, had to relocate temporarily to Adani for peace to reign.

Three persons have been arrested by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, for attempting to smuggle illicit drugs in and out of the country. The suspects were apprehended at the Murtala Mohammed International Airport, MMIA, Lagos for ingesting 161 wraps of narcotics weighing 3.085kg.

Police detectives in Ogun State are combing the nooks and crannies of the state and other environs in frantic search for the owner of a black jeep that reportedly drove into Ajike Medical Centre in Sango Ota, where the corpse of a 13-month-old baby was allegedly mutilated.

The recently paraded child trafficking syndicate at the Lagos state police command, Ikeja, were arraigned at the Apapa Family court on Thursday, May 30th 2013. Three of the defendants, Benedette Ogbonna, Chibueze Mba, and Adaeze Mba who were alleged to be directly involved in the stealing and selling of the children pleaded not guilty to the eight -count charge brought against them while the fourth defendant, Patricia Anibogu, the 61 year- old who allegedly bought one of the children from Benedette Ogbogu, also pleaded not guilty to the five-count charge brought against her.

A commercial bus driver,Steven Emeka, 24, and his conductor, Tosin Kadri, 20, were last Monday, remanded in prison custody for alleged armed robbery. The defendants who are facing a two-count charge of conspiracy and armed robbery were arraigned in a Lagos Magistrate’s court, sitting in Ikeja, before Magistrate Abimbola Oshodi-Makanju.