The name of this nine-year-old girl is Favour. But life seemed not to have treated her according to her name. Rather, it has given her an unpalatable dish she would live the rest of her life pondering over, except she gets help from a psychologist fast.

NOT too long ago, on assumption of office in Makurdi, the new Commissioner of Police in charge of Benue State, Mr. Emmanuel Obiako read a riot act to criminals and those perpetuating violence and all forms of criminality in the state to stay off the State or meet their waterloo.

NOT too long ago, on assumption of office in Makurdi, the new Commissioner of Police in charge of Benue State, Mr. Emmanuel Obiako read a riot act to criminals and those perpetuating violence and all forms of criminality in the state to stay off the State or meet their waterloo.

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.

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!

The popular Yaba market, Lagos was again in the news, following it’s immediate closure by the Lagos State government, Tuesday, over an alleged attack on officials of the Kick Against Indiscipline (KAI), by the traders. The traders were alleged to have used dangerous weapons such as cutlasses and broken bottles on the officials, some of whom sustained various degrees of injuries.

A middle -aged man weekend, ran amock and killed his pregnant wife of over 15 years for allegedly plucking a corncob from his farm.

When Mr. Onyeka Agupugo from Agulu in Anaocha LGA of Anambra State left his house last Saturday, August 13, for the popular Nwagu area of the town, little did his wife he married two months ago know that it was the last time she would see him alive.

For 55-year-old Jacob Odumishi, illicit trade in cannabis is all he could presently do for a living. The suspect who is currently a guest at the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), Lagos State Command, was arrested recently when 1,294kg of dried weeds was found in his possession.

Three suspected fraudsters including a lawyer are correctly cooling off at the Special Fraud Unit, SFU, Milverton Ikoyi, Lagos, following their arrest recently by detectives from the SFU, who got wind of their criminal activities in cloning Certificates of Occupancy.

The spate of armed robbery attacks by men in commercial motorcycles popularly called Okada, has become a source of concern to Lagos residents.

Last week, in less than eight hours, occupants of 43, Sari Iganmu, Lagos, lost everything they labuored for all their lives in a fire described as mysterious.

Emotions ran high at Tse Ihungwa village in Katsina/Ala local government area of Benue State few days ago, when the villagers discovered that a 26- year-old man, Ther Mwuase, has been heinously beheaded by her 25 -year -old lover, Aondonenge Tuma in a nearby forest in the village.

A 29-year-old Economics graduate of Imo State University, IMSU, Owerri, Mr. Obasi Abah, has been arrested by the State Police Command for armed robbery, while his colleague in crime simply identified as “Activity” is now on the run.

Residents of Idi-Araba area of Lagos State, were last Friday thrown into mourning following the death of a 16-year-old girl, Nofisat Adeyemi, and a 30-year-old man, Garuba Muhammad, who were killed during a vicious attack in the area by suspected members of the Odua Peoples Congress, OPC