New intriguing bank robbery technology in Akure

IT would have been disastrous if not for the ingenuity and dexterity of some crack detectives in the Ondo state police command. The detectives foiled a plan by some  robbers who dug a tunnel into the premises of one of the old generation banks in Akure, the Ondo State capital with the intention to bomb and subsequently rob the bank located along  Ado/ Owo road.

800,000 commit suicide from depression annually—DON

A professor of psychiatry, Joseph Adeyemi, has said that no fewer than 800,000 people commit suicide yearly due to depression, yet policies on mental challenges remain archaic.
Professor Adeyemi, who spoke in Lagos at the presentation of the book Shadows in the Mirror: the Many Faces of Depression, written by Dr. Vivian Ikem, said the Mental Health Act, enacted in the 1900s, was last reviewed in 1959 despite medical improvements made over the years.
He said: “Our laws should keep up with current situations, but we have remained static; the way we were in 1959.”

Abuja Police chase tricycle rider to death

There was confusion on Thursday in the Gudu area of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, after a yet-to-be-identified tricycle rider was burnt to death in his tricycle.

According to Punch, It was learnt that the police were chasing the victim when he had an accident. It was gathered that the residents of the area and friends of the victim began a protest until soldiers were deployed in the area to disperse the crowd.

An eyewitness, Bonario Nnags, revealed that the incident happened around 6.30am. He said, “It was around 6.30am. The policemen, who were in a van, were pursuing a keke NAPEP (tricycle) rider. As he was riding very fast, he suddenly lost control of the tricycle and the woman he was carrying fell out of the tricycle.