By Lambert Tyem, with agency report

A deputy commissioner of police yesterday in Lagos expressed a tacit disagreement with the directive of the Inspector General of Police (IGP), Mohammed Dahiru Abubakar, that all checkpoints mounted by policemen nationwide should be dismantled.

By Sunday Ejike Benjamin

One of the suspects in the on-going trial of the six persons alleged to be members of the Boko Haram sect, Shuaibu Abubakar, yesterday told a Federal High Court in Abuja that operatives of the State Security Service (SSS), tortured him into endorsing the “manufactured” statement credited to him.