WARRI—A Policeman was allegedly shot dead yesterday around Jeffia estate area of PTI road, Uvwie Local Government Area of Delta State with his rifle snatched by his assailants.

PORT HARCOURT—The Rivers State Police Command has arrested the police officer, who shot a passenger in Rivers State because of N100 bribe.

Siblings, Idowu Ayeni and Kehinde Ayeni, on Wednesday appeared before an Ebute Meta Chief Magistrates’ Court in Lagos over alleged abduction of a female American.

The Lagos State Police Command has uncovered an uncompleted storey building in Aboru area of Oke-Odo, Lagos, where fake wine and assorted beverages are brewed .

Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, yesterday, arraigned President of Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, Mr Paul Usoro, SAN, before a Federal High Court sitting in Lagos, on a 10-count-charge of alleged N1.4 billion fraud.

Akure—AFTER reducing the ransom demanded for the release of kidnapped Ondo State civil servants to N10 million, their families have been given a 24-hour deadline to pay or they would be killed.

An 85-year-old man, three clerics and one other person have been arrested by the Zone 2 command, Onikan, Lagos with fresh human hearts and flesh, in Abeokuta, Ogun state.

The recent assassination of a retired Deputy Commissioner of Police, DCP, Mr. Innocent Brown and his wife, in their Umuoke, Obowo local council area country home, has heightened the fear of imo people about their safety, in the days ahead.

Akure—AS anxiety envelopes Ondo State over the spate of kidnapping, a ransom of N100 million was yesterday demanded for the release of three civil servants abducted weekend.

A 54-year-old pastor, Michael Olise, was yesterday remanded in Kirikiri Prison by an Ikeja Chief Magistrates’ Court for allegedly defiling 12-year-old twin girls (names withheld).

RUMUEPERIKOM – RESIDENTS of Rumueperikom community, Obio/Akpor Local Government Area, Rivers State, are still staggered over how a 30-year-old man, Prince Owabie, alias J-Boy squeezed the life out of his estranged pregnant lover, Bertha Nwabueze, 32, buried and dwelt with the dead body  in his  one-room apartment for 72 hours when police detectives exposed the crime.

Three teenagers who allegedly gang-raped a teenage girl, were yesterday, remanded in Kirikiri Prison by an Ikeja Chief Magistrates’ Court.

Justice Maurine Onyetenu of the Federal High Court sitting in Osogbo, Monday sentenced former lecturer of Obafemi Awolowo University, OAU, Prof. Richard Iyiola Akindele, to six years imprisonment for demanding sex to pass her student, Monica Osagie.

The Police, Monday, brought a 58-year-old man, Sunday Akpan, before an Igbosere Magistrates’ Court in Lagos for allegedly defiling his 10-year-old step daughter.

A Chief Magistrates’ Court in Kano, on Monday ordered that a 30-year-old man, Nura Bala, be remanded in prison for the alleged rape of a 22-year-old woman.