POLICE open up: SINCE last Tuesday, when the most wanted kidnap/armed robbery kingpin in Delta State, Kelvin, dared the security agencies in the state by showing up at his country home, Kokori in Ethiope-East Local Government Area, which is supposedly under watch by security agents, and issued a 60-day ultimatum to the State and Federal Governments, Deltans and other concerned Nigerians have been waiting for the police to speak on the effrontery.

An Enugu state vacation judge, Justice Fidel Ngwu, sitting at Nsukka, has transferred to the regular courts, hearing on the enforcement of fundamental rights motion and counter motion before it. The suit number C/482M/2013 involves Engr. Okwor and Igwe Okoli (Applicants) and the Inspector-General of Police, (Respondents) in a N48million controversial land deal in Enugu.

IVIUKWE is one of the communities in Agenebode clan, headquarters of the Wepa Wano Kingdom in Etsako East local government area of Edo State. An agrarian community, it was in a state of shock, fasting and prayers when Sunday Vanguard visited on 31 August, following the kidnapping of their illustrious son, Chief Mike Ozekhome (SAN).

Lance Corporal Adi of the Nigerian Army Corps of Military Police (NACMP) is one of the heroes of the war against the Islamist group, Boko Haram, in the North-east. A native of Pakistan, Adi’s platoon was singled out for commendation by the Chief of the Army Staff, Lt. Gen. Azibuike Ihejirika, for executing an operation in Maiduguri, Borno State capital..

The Enugu State command of the Nigeria Police Force has commenced a full investigation into the incident of an alleged murder that occurred in Ogbodo- Amukwa Village, Nsukka. It was gathered that last Wednesday, at about 9.30pm, the neighbourhood watch group of Amukwa village were holding meeting at their town hall during which an alleged fight broke out between one Ndubuisi Agbo and Innocent Ozioko who is a member of the neighbourhood watch group. Consequently, Agbo was shot on his stomach.

The alleged sexual molestation of a 10-year-old girl (name withheld) at Abraham Adesanya estate, Ajah-Lagos, by a tanker driver simply identified as Edward, believed to be in his late 30s, is currently raising dust as the victim’s father has cried out against the ‘unsatisfactory’ manner the case was handled by the Police at the Ogombo Police station. He alledged he was being forced to drop the charges on the grounds that it was a “minor offence”, and that there was no “penetration in the course of molestation”.

An Osogbo Magistrate’s court in Osun has dissolved a 17-year-old marriage over complaint by the husband that his wife beats him up mercilessly for going to church. The petitioner, Mr. Asimuyu Oladosu, told the court that his wife, Kehinde, beats him whenever he goes to church or vigil and urged the court to dissolve the marriage.

The spate of kidnapping in Nigeria and the involvement of youths in the criminal act have become a source of grave concern. More worrisome is the fact that abduction is fast becoming more than a trend; it is now an industry thriving on funds received from the families of victims.

A housewife, Mrs Iyabo Odewunmi, has told an Osogbo Customary Court in Osun State to dissolve her 10-year-old marriage to her husband, Ojo, over his habit of using her menstrual pads for ritual purposes.

Residents of Ago-Okota, a suburb of Isolo Local Government Area in Lagos State, are yet to unravel the motive behind the demolition of a one- story building located at Number 28, Ago Palace Way, Okota by a gang of hoodlums.