This is certainly not the best of time for the Chukwuemeka family of Ohoba-Ohaji /Egbema local government area of Imo state, following the abduction of their 75-year -old mother. In fact, their facial expressions depict that of fear of an imminent danger, unless something is done fast to address the issue.

The Lagos state Police command is presently enmeshed in irreconcilable controversy following the release from police custody of an alleged notorious armed robbery suspect. The suspect simply identified as Monday alias Blacky was reportedly arrested by a team of anti-robbery squad attached to Pedro Division led by the Divisional Police Officer (DPO).

Attempt by six suspected kidnapers, among them, a female, to abduct a senior staff of an oil company in Lagos has been foiled by operatives of the State Anti-Robbery Squad, SARS, Ikeja.

Apprehension, gripped the Benjamins two months ago, following the sudden disappearance of their thirteen -year-old daughter identified simply as Rossy.

Nigeria Immigration Service, NIS, has assured the Lagos state government and residents of their avowed commitment towards enhancing tight security in all the borders even as it appealed to the state government for inclusion into the weekly State Security Council meeting.

Perhaps, if Mrs Ijuo Ruth had known that her mere reaction to a slighting remark by one of her neighbors last week would result in her demise, she would have managed to keep her emotions in check.

Like the biblical injunction which states that ‘the wages of sin is death’, in Malaysia, the punishment for trafficking in hard drugs is outright death by hanging; no appeal! Curiously, four Nigerians, Messrs Ugochukwu Emmanuel Innocent, Udeh Innocent Chukwuemeka, Olisa Kelvin Chukwuka and Mgbeajuo Alex Chigozie, perhaps, out of sheer greed or ignorance, would have increased the number of persons executed by hanging in the Asian country for allegedly trafficking in hard drugs.

LAGOS— DETECTIVES attached to the anti-robbery squad of the Ejigbo Division, Lagos, weekend, arrested a graduate applicant for allegedly impersonating as a Lieutenant Commander with the Nigerian Navy.

RESIDENTS of the industrial town of Nnewi in Anambra State were shocked last week Wednesday when they saw the lifeless body of Miss Uzoamaka Offor, a 25 –year old nurse who was a staff of Chioma Hospital in the town. Uzoamaka, who hailed from Isuochi in Umunneochi local government area of Abia State had, on the night of the incident, felicitated with her colleagues up to 10 pm before retiring to the nurses’ quarters on the third floor of the same building where the hospital is located only to be found dead about midnight.

It is no longer news that robbers attack motorists; both private and commercial, plying the Badagry expressway, on regular basis, capitalizing on the unending traffic congestion to dispossess their victims of cash and other valuables.

Last week, the Zone 2 Command in Onikan, Lagos State, brainstormed on possible ways to transform policing within the zone into a more modern and democratized manner.

Some residents of Kirikiri Creek-View Estate who were recently alleged to be hatching plans to blow up Kirikiri Tank Farms by one Babatunde Shabi have cried out over what they tagged ‘dubious, malicious, defamatory and scandalous’ allegations against them stating that the alarm was a grand design to retain the ‘criminally domineering relevance of their accusers.

The police in Onitsha, Anambra State have arrested two suspects who alleged robbed a Lagos- based journalist , Emeka Mamah near the Niger Bridge about two weeks ago.

To 54-year-old Patrick Nwabuebo, a veteran taxi driver who have cruised the nooks and crannies of highbrow areas in Ikeja, Lagos State, there was no iota of premonition of what befell him on Tuesday, 16th August, 2011, which turned out to be his last day on earth.

We are tired of this kind of policing. Is this the way to police a community; incessantly raiding and harassing innocent persons, extorting and manhandling hapless people? No. I do not think this is how policemen should behave towards those they are supposed to protect and safeguard.