Two suspected members of a robbery gang that use ladies as baits in snatching vehicles from UBER operators within and outside Lagos State have been arrested.

AKURE — IN 2017, a 75 year old grandmother, Modupe Olorunfemi, was gruesomely hacked to death by two heartless cannabis dealers on Owo town, Ondo state.

Five members of a robbery gang that invaded a community in Agege area of the state, killing two persons in the process have been arrested by the Police in Lagos.

Operatives of the Gender Unit, Lagos State Police Command, have arrested a 32-year-old man, Prince Chinecherem, for allegedly introducing a teenager to sodomy and infecting him with the Human Immune Deficiency Virus, HIV, in Ejigbo area of Lagos.

An Osun Magistrates’ Court sitting in Ile-Ife on Thursday, sentenced a 26-year-old man, Mathew Damilare, to six months imprisonment for stealing 2 trousers worth N3,500.

An unidentified pregnant woman and a driver were burnt beyond recognition yesterday, after a truck loaded with 33,000 litres of petroleum product exploded at Barracks Bus Stop, along the Lagos-Badagry Expressway.

A 33-year-old bar owner, Abayomi Ogundipe, was on Wednesday brought before a Tinubu Magistrates’ Court for allegedly refusing to pay a debt of N547,000.

A robbery suspect, Ifeanyi Owoh, who is currently being investigated by the Police, has revealed that he and a colleague of his were on a mission to rob a businessman when he met his Waterloo.

ARMED bandits on Monday reportedly attacked a community in Zamfara State, kidnapping over a dozen people including a new bride, and some nursing mothers.

Uyo—The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, Akwa Ibom state command, has arrested one Prince Okon Bassey for allegedly being in possession of 244 Permanent Voter Cards, bearing different identities of people.

A 19-year-old labourer, Joseph Emmanuel, was, yesterday, docked before an Ogudu Magistrate’s Court, Lagos, over alleged theft of an old woman’s handbag containing a cup of rice.

Two men, Ifeanyi Uzoma, 33, and Chukwendu Njoku, 33, charged with tearing a policeman’s uniform, were, yesterday, taken before an Ikeja Magistrate’s Court.

ABUJA—Chairman of Zenon Petroleum and Gas Ltd., Chief Femi Otedola, yesterday, told an Abuja High Court sitting at Apo that it was the Department of State Services, DSS, that gave him the $500,000 bribe money he offered to erstwhile Chairman of the House of Representatives Ad Hoc Committee on Fuel Subsidy probe, Mr. Farouk Lawan.

Mr Femi Otedola, a prosecution witness in the ongoing trial of a former member of House of Representatives, Mr Farouk Lawan, over bribery allegation has said the 500,000 dollars offered to the defendant is from the Department of State Service (DSS).

BENIN—Police orderly, Sergeant Monday Ehigie, attached to Dr. Eric Osayande, Chairman of Ikpoba-Okha Local Government Area of Edo State, was weekend reportedly killed by unknown gunmen at Nomayo Junction, Upper Sakponba Road, Benin City.