The Lagos State Government on Thursday arraigned 70 suspected cultists before Chief Magistrate Olufunke Sule-Amzat of the Ogudu Magistrate Court for conspiracy to commit felony and for holding a meeting of an unlawful society suspected to be AIYE Confraternity.

In view of the recent development in the state whereby some youths in Aguda Surulere, Itire and Akala-Mushin areas of Lagos State engaged in acts of brigandage, sell and use of illicit drugs, cultism, unlawfully possessing and using firearms to fight rival cult groups, the Commissioner of Police, Lagos State, CP Edgal Imohimi on Wednesday, 28th February, 2018, met with stakeholders, traditional rulers and opinion leaders of Itire community, in Itire/Ikate LCDA.

Troops of 23 Bde deployed Wukari on Ex-Ayem Akpatuma and team of Department of State Service from Jalingo conducted a cordon and search within Takum on Saturday 24 February 2018.

OPERATIVES of the Rivers State Police Command have arrested a cleric, who murdered his pregnant lover, a nine-month-old child and one other lady in Rivers State.

Abuja—The Police Intelligence Response Team, IRT, under the office of Inspector General of Police, have arrested the ringleader of the herdsmen and three other kingpins, who carried out the killing of scores of Benue citizens, following the enactment of the law against open grazing by the Benue State government.