34-year -old Babatunde Akinremi, a car wash operator around St Finbarr’s road Akoka, Lagos, has raised alarm over what he described as false allegation and alleged threat to his life by his landlady, over an issue he claimed he did not know anything about.

Seven traders were recently arrested at the Agege market in Lagos, for allegedly selling fake Orange Drugs Products to unsuspecting members of the public, using the company’s seal.

When a popular jewelry shop at Yaba market in Lagos State was burgled January and gold jewelries worth over N150million carted away, nobody thought the police would catch up with the perpetrators of the crime given the sophistication with which they carried out their operation. Traders and residents of that area were thrown into disarray. They believed the bandits may have gone far away.

If 35-year-old Amaosa Otabor, alias Biggy, had known he was walking into his untimely death, he would have stayed at home last Sunday morning. Otabor was allegedly shot dead by a childhood friend in Upper Uwa, on the out skirts of Benin City.

Few months ago, Nigerians woke up to receive with shock and disbelief, news of the decrepit level of decay at the Police College, Ikeja, Lagos coupled with its deplorable state. The college located on Oba Akinjobi way, close to Arch Bishop V inning Cathedral never gave any passer-by the slightest inkling of its real state, until it was revealed by a television station in January, 2013.

Last week in Lagos, it was the end of the road for a suspected representative of a cartel of drug counterfeiters based in China when operatives of the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, NAFDAC, succeeded in arresting one Olisaemeka Osefor, alleged to be one of their kingpins in Nigeria. The drug cartel specializes in the production and shipment of various fake and counterfeit products into the Nigerian market.

Residents of 500 Housing Estates, otherwise called ‘Bafarawa Quarters’ in Sokoto metropolis, recently demonstrated how communities can assist in fighting crime in their vicinity. It was at about 5.30am when they were going to the mosque to say their early morning prayers. They accosted a 15- year- old JSS II boy, Godwin Dominic who was brought from Aba to run errands for one of their neighbours identified as Mrs. Bola Balogun. He was in possession of two sacks popularly called Ghana Must Go.

A building materials merchant in Olo community, Enugu State who was kidnapped by a yet-to-be identified gunmen alongside his maternal brother who just came back from Europe, has reportedly been strangled to death by his abductors.

A 27- year-old man identified as Morufu Garba is currently cooling his heels in police net for defrauding and assaulting a 20 -year- old lady in Ebute-Metta area of Lagos, recently. The incident happened on the 12th of April, 2013 at about 10pm; when the victim identified as Aminat Ajala, a fashion designing apprentice at Ebute-Metta, returned from work; tired and hungry only to discover that there was no food in the house.

A 30-year-old security guard, Charles Olise, has been arraigned before an Ikeja Magistrate’s Court over alleged forgery and impersonation. Olise, who was docked before Magistrate Dan Oni is facing a three-count charge bordering on conspiracy, forgery and impersonation.