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                               Security officials attached to the Quick Intervention Squad in Calabar, Cross River State on Tuesday arrested two women alleged to be part of a child-trafficking syndicate. Commander of the QIS, which comprises various security agencies, Capt. Mohammed Tanko, said the women were arrested at Eta-Agbor Road where they were transacting the sale of an unidentified, two-year old boy for N600, 000. Tanko said, “The arrested suspects also attempted to bribe the QIS officials with N500, 000 when they were rounded up.” The suspects, who were 30-year-old trader from the Etinan Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom State and a 33-year-old Health Record Officer at the University of Calabar Teaching Hospital from Akpabuyo LGA, admitted to the crime. Contiue...

                             The 21-year-old student of the Redeemer’s University, Ogun State, Tolani Ajayi , who murdered his father, has been arraigned before a Chief Magistrate’s Court in Owode Egba, Obafemi Owode Local Government Area. Tolani, who had been earlier arrested by the police for killing his father, Charles Ajayi, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, on July 3, 2014, was taken to court on Tuesday. He was arraigned around 9.58am on one count of murder. Continue...