Three porters with the Yaba College of Technology, Lagos have been arraigned by the Lagos State Police Command, before an Ebute Metta Magistrate Court in Lagos, over an alleged threat to kill the Rector of the institution, Dr. Magaret Oladipo.

‘How they tricked bureau de change operator to hotel for the kill’…Over 50,000 dollars
35-year-old Ali Sani, a bureau de change operator in Apapa area of Lagos, least envisaged the tragedy that loomed ahead, penultimate Monday, as he set for his office. Like every other bureau de change operator, Ali called on passers-by to patronise him, in his hard currency changing business.

Twice in two months, Ali Hudu Kurma, a 25-year-old deaf and dumb, narrowly escaped from suspected kidnappers. On each occasion, he had boarded a commercial vehicle from Piako to Kano, where he had lived over the last one decade and met some strange faces that made him uncomfortable and, on the two occasions, he choose to force his way out to safety.

The pain of the villagers was written all over them as they rummaged through the remains of their destroyed homes. All they were trying to do was salvage what was still useful.

It all started about four years ago at a football field in the heart of Benin city, the Edo state capital where Lucky Iyamu 23, Kingsley Ofeya 31, ShakaYakubu Oseki 28, Kelvin Omotuemhen 26, Onyeka Joseph 42 and Jude Egumahe 24 met.

Mrs. Eucharia Nnadi, the step mother of Henry Nnadi, who is currently in Kirikiri prison awaiting trial pending advice from the Directorate of Public Prosecution, DPP over the murder of his one-year-old son and attempted murder of his wife, finally bared her mind on the latter’s action, describing it as despicable.

If Taiwo Akande had known, he would not have asked his aged mother to travel from Ijero-Ekiti, Ekiti State, to receive medical treatment in Lagos State. The move to cater for his mother in her old age is now being regretted by the entire family as a group of hoodlums recently sent the grand-mother to her grave.

If Sekinat Emiola had known that an extra-marital affair she was having with Asimiyu Ayantayo who lives at Oke Aremo Ibadan could lead to her death, she would have exercised some restraint. She left her four children with a message that after she finished her business at Eleyele, she would have a stop- over in the residence of Asimiyu before she came back home.

These are not the best of times for residents and those passing through the territory known as Imo State. Armed robbery and kidnapping activities have become so frequent that people are now finding it extremely difficult to move about and transact their businesses with ease

If only he had listened to the plea of his wife after returning from an all night wake keep that he should retire to bed for some rest, perhaps the tragic shooting that claimed his life would have been averted and his heart broken wife would not have been turned into a widow at her young age and left to cater for their six old child.