The Inspector-General of Police IGP, Mr Mohammed Abubakar, yesterday, spoke on the need for information sharing among security agencies charged with the policing of the nation’s territorial waters, in a bid to stamp out criminality on the nation’s waters.

…Incarcerated for 16 years
TIME was when some people of sudden wealth took over the landscape of Imo State. They did whatever they liked, when, how and where they chose. Some even felt that spotting policemen as orderlies were no longer fashionable hence they settled for armed soldiers.

Tragedy struck recently in Ibeshe area of Ikorodu, Lagos, after two children were found dead inside a car. One of the children, Olamipo Oluwaferanmi Kadiri, who was two years and three months old, was the last child of a management staff of the Lagos State Waste Management Authority, LAWMA while the other child, whose identity could not be ascertained, was a niece who only came visiting during the yuletide season.

Recently, job seekers patronized cyber cafes in their numbers to fill online application for recruitment into the Nigeria Security and Civil Defense Corps, NSCDC. In the process, some of them reportedly paid an unspecified amount into designated bank accounts while others made cash payments to some persons acclaimed to be consultants to the Corps.

TREPIDATION has gripped members of Chikere family of Ngwa community in Abia State over what they described as mysterious happenings which has claimed four members of the family.

The Human Right department of Ilemba Hausa Police Division, in Ojo area of Lagos has arrested a 49- year-old man who allegedly had been having carnal knowledge of his teenaged daughter for five years.

Policemen attached to Ogudu division have arrested a man who specialized in using his vehicle to help stranded ladies at bus-stops, only to dispossess them of their belongings midway.

A Female suspected pipeline vandal, Jelilat Olailikon, who was arrested alongside four others by the Inspector General of Police Special Task Force Unit on Anti-Pipeline Vandalism, has confessed that she took to the illicit business as part of her share of the national cake.

The hitherto quiet atmosphere witnessed in Ligali street, Ojo road in Ajegunle area of Lagos was recently truncated, following the abduction of a 22-year-old lady identified as Bose Ashade, right in front of her compound. Noone could go for Bose’s rescue, as the thugs said to have been heavily armed, threatened to kill anyone who dared to thwart their mission. And before everyone, helpless Bose, was whisked away in the thugs operational motorcycles. Time was 6pm last Friday.

Justice Lateefa Okunnu of the Lagos High Court, Ikeja, has sentenced a Managing Director of an oil and Gas Company, one Akinyemi Idowu Jegede to seven years imprisonment.

Crime prevention is the anticipation, recognition and appraisal of a crime risk/vulnerability and the initiation of a positive action to remove or reduce the crime. The Christmas and the New Year is around the corner again. Christmas is a busy time of the year for almost everyone, including the criminal. Christmas and New Year appears to be peak periods were crime rate are always on the increase. This is a period most persons are vulnerable to criminal activities.

…Police, military disagree on culpability of corporal
A syndicate specializing in hijacking loaded petroleum products in Delta State, kidnapping owners/drivers of affected trucks and holding them hostage until the products are illegitimately sold have been exposed by the police.

We usually smoke wraps of Indian hemp otherwise called Igbo before we go for robbery. We will then top it with shots of ogogoro (local gin). This is to make us hardened during operation and this is why a robber during operation can shoot his mother or wife”

The female artist , Tiwa Bankole who was Monday stabbed in the neck by her landlord’s son, one Tobi Obadina, yesterday, recounted how she was almost sent to an unprepared grave.

Business activities were temporally disrupted in the university town of Nsukka, in Enugu state yesterday, after some robbers reportedly dressed in Mobile Police uniform invaded Peace Mass transit Motor Park, snatching a school bus and dispossessing several persons of cash and other valuables.