Indian police said Monday a man has been charged with murdering his friend after a heated argument over whether Lionel Messi or Cristiano Ronaldo is the world’s best footballer.

The ambition of Ese Rita Oruru, the 14-year-old, who was allegedly abducted from Bayelsa State and taken to Kano State where she was said to have been converted to Islam and married out without the consent of her parents, was to become a nurse.

Last Monday’s abduction of three female students from their hostel at the Babington Macaulay Junior Seminary (BMJS), Ikorodu, has exposed the inability of security agents in Lagos State to curb the activities of pipeline vandals operating in the Arepo, Ogun State, close to Ikorodu, Lagos. The vandals who are mainly militants from the Niger Delta, had held sway for a long time in the area and it’s environ as they masterminded the vandalism of pipelines belonging to the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, and siphoned the contents within Arepo. They are also behind the incessant bank robberies in Lekki, Ikorodu, Festac and Agbara areas of Lagos and Ogun States, during which they carted large sums of money and killed several residents including policemen.

Despite the efforts by successive governments in Benue State to find solution to the clashes between farmers and suspected Fulani herdsmen, the bloody crisis have continued unabated.

THE Police have nabbed the wife of a kidnap gang leader, Mr Prosper Nengi David, who coordinates the activities of his gang from the Port Harcourt prison. A member of the gang, Mr Ifanyi Nwanfo, who spoke while in the custody of the Anti-Kidnap Unit of the Police, had said that David was in detention at the Port Harcourt prisons and coordinated the activities of the group from the prison with a phone. According to Nwanfo, the group always gave David’s share of the ransom to his wife at a spot on Aboloma road.