Just two weeks ago in the ancient city of Ibadan, Oyo State, there was a bloody clash between the followers of the popular traditional masquerade, Oloolu and some street boys. This incidence reminds meof the same clash between Alhaji Azeez Ajagbemo-keferi, an Islamic religious leader and followers of Oloolu in the mid 60s. The crisis led to the arraignment of the Islamic leader for assaulting the masquerade before a High Court in Ibadan. A lawyer who was less than 10 years old at the bar then brilliantly and successfully defended Alhaji Ajagbemokeferi. Late Justice Ogunkeye upheld the arguments of the lawyer.

No fewer than a hundred students who graduated from different secondary schools in Nigeria are ready to depart the country to attend various universities in the USA.

The winner of the Indomie 2013, National Spelling Bee Competition, Master Boadley Juwon Afolarin, who emerged this year’s One-day-governor, on Monday, July 22nd, paid a courtesy call to the corporate headquarters of Dufil Prima Foods, major sponsor of the annual spelling Bee competition.

This piece high lights thoughts on a fundamental statutory misconception that has underlined the treatment of criminal allegations made in election petition proceedings in Nigeria. It engages the historical rationale for the requirement that criminal allegations must be proved beyond reasonable doubt and argues that such is incongruous with election petitions and other variants of civil proceedings.

Former President of Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Dr. Olisa Agbakoba, SAN, has called for provision to be made for the establishment of Christian/Ecclesiastical Courts in the present Constitution alteration process.

The Police in Ogui division, Enugu State Command last weekend, arrested two suspected armed robbers while three escaped with bullet wounds. It was gathered that the operatives acting on a distress call received at about 2 am that robbers were robbing residents of 113/114 Ogui Urban area, Obiagu, Enugu, responded quickly to the call by proceeding to the scene and on sighting the operatives, the hoodlums believed to be numbering about five, opened fire on them.

A middle aged woman simply identified as madam Agnes is currently being detained at the State Criminal Investigations Department, SCID Panti, for allegedly beating an 11-year-old child that was staying with her to death.

Three teenagers and a 20-year-old man, Yusuf Lateef, have been arraigned before a Lagos State High Court in Igbosere, on a three-count charge of conspiracy and armed robbery.

Ago Okota area of Lagos was in the news weekend, following the discovery of a kidnapper’s den, on Oyegbusi street, where a Briton who was kidnapped shortly after arriving the country from Amsterdam, was kept for five days before he was rescued.

Ideally Mobolorunduro community via Ijoko-Ota, Ogun State, would have been a most desired place to be given the once prevailing peace there. But this is presently not the case as peace has been forced into exile owing to incessant robbery attacks. Residents now live in palpable fear as criminal elements engage in a show of viciousness and superiority on constant basis.