Civil Defence Corps Arrested 21 Militants As They Engages Them In Gun Battle.

Some vandals allegedly responsible for attacks on communities in Lagos and Ogun states are escaping in large numbers to riverine communities in the Ilaje and Ese-Odo local government areas of Ondo State.

Investigations on Monday showed that the insurgents, who escaped the intensified aerial bombardment by the Nigerian Air Force of their camps at Arepo, Ogun, and Ikorodu, Lagos, had been sighted in Ore, Okitipupa and the riverine communities of  Ondo State.

A top security source told one of our correspondents that security reports showed that some of the militants had sneaked into the Ondo reverine communities.