Anxiety in Benue as criminal gang of late militia kingpin, Gana embark on killings, kidnapping
•Youths raise alarm, send SOS to IGP•Reports say 66 victims recorded so far By Ifeanyi Okolie There is anxiety in Benue state following the resurgence of massive killings and abductions by criminals suspected to be remnants of the dreaded gang members of late militia leader, Terwase Akwaza alias Gana. The bloodletting has gotten to the […]
Diamond Estate:A community on the throes of explosion
In October 17, 1998, Idjerhe community in Jesse, Delta state was engulfed in devastating flames occasioned by the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) pipeline explosion.
Fear grips Ikorodu residents
FOR close to three years now, some communities in Imota Local Council Development Authority, especially Igbokuta, in outskirt of Lagos have been in total disarray.This is due to the lingering crisis over ownership of vast hectares of land.
Policemen in Lagos trade blames over death of 20-yr-old man
By Emma Nnadozie & Emeka Mamah The mysterious death of a 20-year-old man, Nzeribe Manu on May 20, 2011 has thrown the entire Police Force in Lagos State into confusion. The circumstances surrounding the demise of the young man, the only son of a female Police Inspector attached to Area F, Ikeja, is as bizarre […]
Police arrest eight-man robbery suspects
Last month, a suspected leader of a notorious robbery gang identified as Charles Okon, was arrested. The 34-year-old suspect from Cross Rivers state was apprehended following a confessional statement by his girlfriend
How robbery gang met waterloo in owerri
International reggae star, Jimmy Cliff, once sang an award winning song: “The harder they come, the harder they fall”. The meaning of this song manifested last Monday, June 6, 2011, when one out of a five-member gang of dare devil armed robbers, who wanted to rob a filling station at Ugwu Orji, an outskirt of Owerri municipality, was gunned down by eagle-eyed policemen on patrol.
