Homicide detectives at the State Criminal Investigations Department, SCID, Panti Yaba, Lagos State, are interrogating a middle-aged man, Lukmon Alabi, over an alleged case of multiple homicide. Sources told Crime Alert that the suspect was arrested after he was declared wanted by security operatives at the State Special Anti-Robbery Squad, SARS, and their counterpart at SCID.

THOSE who know Sir Gilbert Alaribe family of Umuokeada, Logara in Ngor-Okpala Local Council area of Imo State, will readily tell anybody who cares that they are not pompous, troublesome or vexatious. They are rather simple, hardworking, friendly and religious. Today, this family boasts of a Catholic priest, Rev. Fr. Dr. Gilbert Nwadinobi Alaribe, of the Catholic Archdiocese of Owerri Ecclesiastical Province.

The removal of former Inspector-General of Police, Mr Hafiz Ringim , Wednesday, from office, was applauded from different quarters, owing to the dwindling state of internal insecurity in the country.

CUPID arrow, the proverbial angel of love manifested in its fullest recently in Lagos State. Unfortunately, it turned against its victim who happens to be a notorious armed robber. Just like a fairy tale, the victim, later identified as Ratty Bassey, had gone to rob the home of a Lagos based lawyer (names withheld) at Lamgbasa area of Ajah, Lagos State early January.

The death of a 27- year-old man must certainly be the most traumatic and devastating experience a family can face. That was the case of Awal Inuwa Ashafa, the only son of his mother whose life was cut short at his prime age right in front of Orukposaka Mosque, Orukposaka Street in Abaji during the heat of Kabiru Umar, alias Kabiru Sokoto’s escape on Sunday, January 15, 2012.

THE usual serene atmosphere enjoyed by residents of Ogudu road, Ojota area of Lagos was recently punctured by some aggrieved applicants protesting their plight in the hands of an alleged visa racketeer as they besieged his 89, Ogudu road office with a threat to burn it down.

By Evelyn Usman The  unprecedented presence of stern looking policemen recently at the Computer village, Ikeja where different kinds of electronic gadgets including GSM handsets are sold, threw both traders and buyers into panic. With the policemen, later discovered to be from the State Anti-Robbery Squad, Ikeja, were two  robbery suspects with  ruffled  disposition, who […]

APPARENTLY thinking that the stay at home order by the organized labour over federal government removal of petroleum subsidy would keep anti-narcotic operatives in their respective homes, suspected drug cartel operating outside the country cashed in on the prevailing situation to import substantial quantity of hard drugs into the country via the Murtala Mohammed International Airport Ikeja, Lagos.

A TEAM team of anti-robbery squad, Ikeja, Lagos, recently engaged a notorious gang of armed robbers along Lekki – Ajah expressway in a bloody shootout and arrested a member of the gang in the process.

‘I HAVE never been so traumatized in my 71 years of existence. I have never been pointed AK 47 assault riffles like a common criminal in my life; I had never suffered post traumatic stress disorder in life until December 13, 2011when four fierce looking armed policemen from the Special Anti-Robbery Squad, SARS, Ikeja, Lagos, stormed my Ilogbo-Eremi residence in Olorunda Local Council Development Area LCDA, Lagos as a result of a petition by one of my friends and tenant, Mr. Cyprian Ugweje.”

FOR Messrs Akakpo James Kossi, Nwanchukwu Chukwuma Ferdinard and Okonkwo John Oforma; the unguided ambition to make it ‘big’ at the beginning of year 2012 has landed them in troubled waters as they are presently cooling off at the custody of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency NDLEA for allegedly being in possession of powdery substances suspected to be cocaine and heroin respectively.

ABUJA- There is growing fear that the Boko Haram Islamic fundamentalist sect which is believed to have sponsored the suicide attack on St. Theresa’s Catholic Church, Madalla, Niger State on Christmas day may strike again on New Year day.

If there is anything, apart from armed robbery, that has kept Imo people gasping for breath in the past two years, it is the spate of kidnapping in the land. This damnable development first reared its ugly head when militants in the Niger Delta Region claimed they were fighting to control the natural resources in their communities.

Pandemonium broke out at the popular Ladipo market, Lagos on the eve of Christmas after over 100 hoodlums allegedly invaded the Aguiyi Ironsi International Trade Centre and unleashed terror on defenceless traders, injuring over 20 persons while shops and other makeshift stalls were looted.

Operatives attached to the Special Anti-Robbery Squad Ikeja, Lagos have arrested four suspected members of a robbery gang that invaded the home of a 70year-old man in Epe area of Lagos,two weeks ago, leaving him unconscious as they made away with an unspecified amount of money.