WITH recent clean bill of health accorded the Nigerian government by the United States for her inimitable fight against illicit trafficking in hard drugs, the National Drug Law Enforcement agency, NDLEA seemed to have resolved to fight drug traffickers and barons to a standstill, in spite of the various mode of concealment.

It was the end of the road for some suspected members of a notorious robbery gang that have been terrorizing resident of Ijebu-Ode , Ilishan and Ikenna areas , following the arrest of four suspected members of the gang by men of the Ogun state police command.

We sighted some buildings. Some had been finished, while others were at varying stages of completion. The CP moved from one building to the other and carefully explained what we were seeing. We saw empty cement bags that served as beds for the kidnapped victims. There was also some currency wrappers left behind by the hoodlums. Shock was the word.

He was quick to tell the nation why they crisis came to the police as a surprise: “You see it is not that we do not want to be proactive. The trends in policing keep changing depending on the realities and dynamics of society. The society is changing. We are employing intelligence-led policing and that is, the use of intelligence to pre-empt criminal activities.

Some of them that spoke secretly to Vanguard said it was the prayers they said to God over the way the outgoing police boss treated their promotion that resulted in his inglorious removal from office. One of them at the 1st floor unequivocally told this reporter that he has been drinking with his colleagues after hearing the news.

The family of a 28 -year-old Sunday Okiei, a native of Owan East Local GovernmentArea of Edo State, is appealing to the Federal Government to prevail on the South African Government to investigate the mysterious death of their son, who was a student in a university in Johannesburg before he died May 2010.

In order to paint a very pathetic picture, they engaged four teenagers and dragged them along as their biological children to be fed and taken care of as they move from one street to the other in Minna, begging for alms.. Their plan was perfected and it worked as sympathizers could not do otherwise than to help them with different gifts.

Sensing complicity and fould play, the Osualla family opened direct communication with the kidnappers who after some days, agreed to accept N1 million. The family were directed to drop the money at a spot on Abakiliki road which they did.

Owuzor, while insisting that Nnubia was arrested and charged based on Mohammed’s confessional statements indicting him, however, admitted before the court that Nnubia’s driver, Ejike Anike, the 6th accused person, was erroneously charged for alleged conspiracy, armed robbery and kidnaping.

Later that night, we heard the sound of a car and my daughter told me that her husband was back. Shortly after he opened the gate and was going back into his car to drive inside the compound, we heard him shout, Jesus! thief, thief then he ran into the other corner of the compound but he fell down when there was no escape route.