Failure of the police from Nigerian police force,headquarters in Abuja to produce witnesses and exhibits on Monday stalled the continuation of the Offa Robbery case in an ilorin high court in the resumed hearing of the high profile case.

Two siblings, Aregbesola Warif, 16, and Aregbesola Quadris, narrowly escaped being lynched by two men suspected to be personnel of the Nigerian Army over allegation of phone theft, at Maryland area of Lagos.

BENIN—THE Ehigie family of Benin City, Edo State, has instituted a legal action against the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, at the Federal High Court, Akure, demanding N660 million as compensation over alleged extra-judicial killing of their son, Mr. Uyi Ehigie.

KWALE—SUSPECTED cultists, weekend, allegedly battered a 23 year-old man to death at Kwale, headquarters of Ndokwa West Local Government Area, Delta State.

Ilorin—Father of one of the slain police officers, identified as Mrs Yemisi Makinde, nee Oyeyemi, killed during the April 5, 2018 Offa bank robbery in Kwara State reportedly died, weekend, in Ilorin, Kwara state capital.

When Mr. Sunday Otasi, a father of three and resident of Yenigwe on the outskirts Yenagoa, went to his rustic hometown, Agbobiri, in Okordia clan, Yenagoa Local Government Area of Bayelsa State, last week, to take with him his three teenage children, namely Success, 14, Miracle, 12, and Godstime, 10, to Yenagoa, many of his kinsmen thought he may have finally reconciled with them after many years of rejection.

A top commander of the Boko Haram Sect, Umar Abdulmalik, who was arrested penultimate Thursday by operatives of the Inspector General of Police Special Intelligence Response Team, IRT, in Lagos State, for carrying out several bombings, bank robberies and killings within the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Abuja, Owo, Ondo State and Lokoja Kogi State, has revealed how he joined the sect and led members to carry out these attacks.

Enugu—A 73-year-old woman, Mrs Cecilia Attah, has been reportedly killed by her son at Nru, in Nsukka Local Government Area of Enugu State.

One of the security guards, Hyacinth Lawrence, arrested by operatives of the Inspector General of Police Special Intelligence Team, IRT, for stealing two vehicles, said he stole the vehicles because he was looking for money to travel out of the country.

Tension is at present palpable in the Olalekan family, following what was described as strange disappearance of their son, Imam Rafiu, a National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, member in Lagos, since December 24, 2018.

Four men arrested by the Police in the United Kingdom, UK, after they sneaked aboard a ship which set sail from Lagos, and allegedly threatened the crew, are now facing trial, the UK police have told Premium Times.

AKURE — LUCK ran out on five senior civil servants in Ondo State as they were nabbed for allegedly defrauding the Ondo State Government to the tune of over N200m tax fund.

A 73 year old woman, Mrs Cecilia Attah, has been reportedly killed by her son at Nru, in Nsukka Local Governments Area of Enugu State.

A 43-year-old Islamic studies teacher Abdulsalam Salaudeen has been arrested by the police for defiling a five-year-old girl.

THERE was anger yesterday, in Yenagoa, the Bayelsa State capital, as one Otasi Sunday, allegedly killed his two sons by forcing them to drink insecticide, accusing them of being wizards.