Major-General Tajudeen Adeniyi Olanrewaju (rtd) seldom speaks. The Lagos prince, who made his marks in the nation’s defence sector as Commander, Corps of Artillery; General Officer Commanding (GOC), Three Division of the Nigerian Army, Jos; member, Provisional Ruling Council (PRC); was Chairman, Presidential Review Committee on the General Abisoye Panel report on the reforms of the NNPC and left the stage as Minister of Communications.

IT was celebration galore for the Joint Task Force JTF) in Niger-Delta, codenamed Operation Pulo Shield, when its troops, June 23, accosted some purported sea pirates in the creek of Bayelsa State and shot dead six of them in a supposed gun battle, while the seventh suspect, who escaped with bullet wounds, later died.

Two years ago, sympathizers thronged the densely populated Amukoko, Lagos abode of Mrs Cordelia Nnozirim, to console her over the death of her husband. As she sat at a corner in the one-room apartment located on Fijabi street, the distraught widow merely gave a blank stare at everyone around, as she apparently thought of how she would single-handedly take care of her six children.

When news of a robbery attack on a Thermocool outlet at Bolade-Oshodi area of Lagos State, where a whopping sum of N8 million was carted away and five persons, including three policemen and a pregnant woman lost their lives, broke last November, the police in Lagos State knew they were in for a difficult case.

It has been tough, hectic and very challenging. I came from Nasarawa as Commissioner of Police. That is a different environment compared to Rivers where you have people from all tribes including foreigners. So you can imagine the challenges.

…As officers record huge success, bag UN Medals in Sudan
South Sudan Police authorities has pleaded with the Nigeria Police Force to urgently come to their aid in the area of training of their own manpower and capacity building especially as they have seen from the performances of the Nigeria Police contingent in the newly independent country, that Nigeria Police officers are ‘top class’ comparable to those in Europe and other advanced countries.

Residents of Adealu street in Dopemu area of Lagos recently watched with dismay the shameful fight between two house wives over accusation and counter accusation of adultery. Both women identified as Mrs Ruka Amoha and MadamYemi were residents of House Number 13 on the said street and had lived happily together until one of them started suspecting the other of having illicit affairs with her husband.

As 54 year-old Ajewole Femi, clad in deputy superintendent of police uniform, was being led by policemen to the Oduduwa office of the Lagos State Police Public Relations Officer, Ngozi Braide, everyone assumed he could have been arrested for illegal duties .

The new Assistant Inspector-General of Police in Charge of Zone 2, Onikan, Lagos, AIG Mamman Tsafe, has said that police officers who can not move with this resolve should better surrender their uniform and leave the force. He spoke with Vanguard Crime Guard recently, where he reiterated his readiness to transform the police in his zone into a community friendly force. Excerpts:

Come-And-Live-And-Be-At-Rest is the acronym for Calabar, the Cross River State capital and the nation’s first administrative headquarters during the colonial era. Calabar is noted for serene environment and has been adjudged as the country’s tourism destination. The city is peaceful, clean and green with highly rich culture and cuisine though very expensive.

Two members of one of the ruling royal families in Ogun State suspected to be armed robbers met their waterloo last Sunday when men of the Nigeria Customs Service, NCS, in Ogun State intercepted them with blood-stained jeep that was recently robbed in Lagos.

It was a day of reckoning for suspected criminals and cultists in Benue State as police detectives recently arrested no fewer than 45 of the suspects. Assorted arms and ammunition of various calibre were also recovered from their hideouts.

FOUR years ago, Miss Chika Obasi like very other young girl, left the cuddling of her parents in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital for Lagos in search of greener pastures. The Ohazara local government area, Ebonyi State born pretty lady was full of expectations as she made to settle down in Lagos.

Herbert Akpo, Director of Socials of the Student Union Government, Cross River University of Technology (CRUTECH),was full of life, Thursday June 7, 2012, and went to school to write his semester examinations like other students. He never had the inkling that, after his first paper, that would be his last day as a student of the university and his existence on the mother earth.

…As security operatives kill teenager in Igga Community. Soldiers/vigilante trade blames.
Anxiety and confusion has enveloped Igga Community in Uzo-Uwani Local Government area of Enugu state following the alleged killing of a teenager by a combined patrol team of Umueje Vigilante group and some armed soldiers in the area.