The Lagos State Taskforce on Environmental and Special Offences (Enforcement) Unit, Alausa, has said it charged 4,522 hoodlums across the state to court between January and April, 2016, out of which 3,716 were convicted.
Beggars stormed the secretariat of the Kaduna Council of the Nigeria Union of Journalists along Muhammadu Buhari Way, on Wednesday with a demand that the state Governor, Mallam Nasir el-Rufai, should fulfil his campaign promises before placing a ban on their activities.
A 75-year-old retired teacher, Onuzuruike Udu, paraded by the Anambra State Police Command for allegedly forging different certificates said he committed the act “out of milk of human kindness.”
A driver to a Port Harcourt-based lawyer identified as Jerry Igiri has been arrested by operatives of the Rivers State Police Command for kidnapping his employer’s four-year-old son, Goodnews.