Jubrin Yaya is Sultan, Shua Arabs, Lagos State. He operated as a herdsman for twelve years before now employing herdsmen himself. In this interview, the Maiduguri -born Shua Arab speaks on the danger armed herdsmen pose to society and what can be done to check the menace.

“I don’t want the two years I spent as a Diploma student to be a waste and that was why I was really desperate for money. Unfortunately, I don’t have anybody that can help me. This was the only solution for me. I am begging the government to forgive me, I will change for the better. I will never try this again even if it means me leaving the school, I will leave it and find something else to do rather than endangering my life. In fact, I thank the police for saving my life if not the people would have killed me.

TONGUES are wagging over the allegation that some cooks at the Federal Government Girls College, FGGC, Akure, Ondo State capital were caught by students while picking into two “Ghana-Must-Go” bags, used sanitary pads of female pupils, possibly for sinister motive.

It was a strange development in the history of students struggle in the University of Port Harcourt (UNIPORT) that a student will be shot dead during a protest against management policy.

A 34-year-old suspect, Ayo Kunle Ibikunle, who allegedly swindled an octogenarian of N2.7 million, says he used the money to process his travelling documents.

When 26-year-old Abigail Olori met Alhaja Latifat and her husband three years ago, she felt she had met an angel in human form who would turn the odds of her life for good. Considering the fact that she had lost her parents and was saddled with the responsibility of catering for her siblings, she jumped at the offer to travel to Italy to work as an auxiliary nurse for the couple. Unknown to her, however, she was making the biggest mistake of her life.

A former government building, located in Burma Road, Apapa, Lagos, has reportedly been attacked by hoodlums who allegedly carted away $45,000 and N9.5 million kept in a safe in the building by a bureau de change operator.

As part of crime prevention and community safety strategy,Gombe State Police Command, under the Police Community Partnership Approach to Policing project, collaborated with a National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) member, Mr. Lumi Irimiya, trained 250 unemployed youths in the production of emulsion and text coat paints. The Commissioner of Police in the state, Austin Iwah, spoke with our Crime Editor, Emma Nnadozie, on how he was able to achieve fthe eat.

Barely 48 hours after three female students of Babington Macaulay Junior Seminary School in Ikorodu regained freedom from captivity, Crime Guard gathered that operatives of the Inspector General of Police Intelligence Response Team, IRT, swooped on three more members of the gang, bringing the total number of suspects arrested to six.

Oghara town in Ethiope West Local Government area of Delta state , is one of the three major clans of the Urhobo ethnic group. Aside benefiting from successive governments through the provision of social amenities such as stadium, teaching hospital, tertiary institutions and other things that keep life going, eminent personalities who have at one time or the other occupied public offices also hail from the town.