Human Right Activist and Lagos based lawyer, Femi Falana has said that the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) is a legacy of the military government and a partially illegal squad which needs to be completely overhauled.

Speaking on Channels Television Breakfast Programme, Sunrise Daily, on Tuesday, Falana said armed troops among SARS operators need to be removed and the policemen among them need reorientation as they operate like they are in a military government.

Armed robbers attacked and shot at close range a female journalist working with the African Independent Television (AIT), after they robbed her of a mobile phone and other personnel effects along Edepie area of Yenagoa, the Bayelsa State capital.

Miss Onisofie Owei, who is the AIT correspondent attached to the State Government House, was shot about 10.30pm on Saturday, while she was returning home from "Shiloh 2017" church service organised by the Living Faith church also known as Winners Chapel.

The Chairman of Independent Corrupt Practices and other related offences Commission (ICPC), Bako Abdullahi has blamed the prevailing instability, insecurity and challenges rocking Nigeria's democracy on corruption. Bako stated this on Monday in Lokoja while speaking on the sideline of the 2017 International Anti Corruption Day with the theme, ‘United against corruption for development, peace and security.’

Chief Damishi Sango, Plateau PDP Chairman and former sports minister, has been kidnapped by yet to be identified persons, on Wednesday, News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports. Plateau Police Command spokesman, Terna Tyopev, who confirmed this to the NAN on Thursday in Jos, said that Sango was abducted alongside others round Jere-Garkawa road in Kaduna State.
 “They were on their way from Jos to Abuja on Wednesday evening when the kidnappers abducted them,” he said.