PROPERTY worth N336.4 million have so far been saved in fire incidents across the Federal Capital Territory by officials of the FCT Fire Service.

This was disclosed yesterday by the FCT Fire Service Comptroller, Liman A. Bare, during a press briefing on the service activities from October to December 2009.

He explained that the service received a total of 98 fire incident calls out of which
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She is Mrs. Obioma Liyel Imoke, wife of the Cross River State governor, and if there’s one thing Mrs. Imoke is passionate about, it’s ridding the streets of Calabar of destitute kids.

Now her commitment has begun yielding positive result as about 50 street children have been rehabilitated into a new home.

The new home known as the Destiny Child Centre in Calabar South, is one of the major p
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ABUJA, the nation’s capital is home to about 2,000 commercial sex workers, apart from those engaged in it on part time basis, says the Daughters Of Abra-ham Foundation (DOAF).
DOAF, says the situation can be attributed to the present economic condition in the country.

Speaking at a press conference in Abuja at the weekend to announce the 15th anniversary of the foundation, Director of DOAF, E
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The police in Enugu have made a major break­through in the bid to end kidnapping of persons in the Coal City as they apprehended a kidnap gang that wore priests' white cassock as a disguise.

Prior to the catch, kidnappers have been taking their victims from the city to their hideouts, sometimes outside the state, the latest being the Chief Press Secretary to the governor, Mr. Dan Nwaomeh.
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The Rivers State government has vowed to deal with kidnappers or anyone whose duties facilitates kidnapping of medical personnel.

The Secretary to the State Gov­ernment Magnus Abe made this known when he received protesting members of the Rivers State branch of the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) in Port Harcourt

Abe, who described the kidnap­ping of medical doctors as very sad, said
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The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) Federal Operations Unit (FOU) Lagos at the weekend arrested five suspects who alleg­edly smuggled contraband goods including textiles, used tires and second hand clothes worth over N 222.6 million.

Comptroller FOU Zone ‘A’ Lagos Tahir Musa disclosed yesterday in a chat with our correspondent that the five suspects were being interrogated over the seizures an
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The Benue State Police Command has recovered over 40 AK-47 rifles at Abogbe village in Agatu Local Government Area.

Police Commissioner Ibrahim Mohammed, who made this known in Makurdi, the state capital on Monday, said one of the suspects had been arrested.

He said the police discovered last week that some people were manufacturing arms and ammunition in the village.

"Based on the in
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ZUBA ROBBERS ARRESTED


The Police in Abuja at the week-end arrested a gang of robbers in Zuba town.

The commissioner of Police Federal Capital Territory, John Haruna, represented by the police Public Relation Officer said the gang consisting four armed robbers were arrested after a shoot-out with the special Anti Robbery Squad (SARS) at a Supermarket in Zuba.

He said the police were informed that the robbers we
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