CALL it high drama: A Police Sergeant fall face down. Another Police Inspector in mufti jumps out through the window. And an Area Commander makes a telephone call announcing that he, the DPO, officers and men of Panti Police Station are already behind bars awaiting further punishment.
When a Lagos housewife (names withheld) had an accident recently, she was relieved to see help coming from a 28-year-old man, Seyi Olumide. In fact, Seyi, who claims to deal in computer accessories, assisted the middle-aged woman to the hospital where she was given medical care and later volunteered to also take her damaged vehicle to a panel beater for repairs.
If Mr. Gorge Onyemaechi had an inkling that his surname “Onyemaechi” literary meaning, “Who knows Tomorrow” would turn to be a question he doesn’t have answers to, he probably would have hesitated a while before attending the special Church service on Thursday, January 5, 2012 or better still, would not attend.
Unlike several Nigerians who leave the shores of the country in search of greener pastures overseas, majority of Agbeye indegenes of Osun state opted for Oyinbogbeni by-pass camp of Okomu village in Ovia South-West local government area of Edo state, where they engaged in cocoa plantation,with a view to earning a better living.
The extreme South African adventurers, Braam Malherbe and Peter van Kets left South Africa recently for the Antarctica to participate in a race to the South Pole to commemorate the centenary of the epic race between Roald Amundsen and Robert Falcon Scott to reach the South Pole first, and to raise funds for Operation Smile South Africa.
The annual carnival usually held at the Low Cost Housing Estate, Oke-Afa, Isolo, Lagos took place as usual last year on December 26, 2011 and lasted till the early hours of the following day. The carnival which witnessed an unprecedented influx of persons from across the state was peaceful and pageantry…
YEAR 2011 meant different things to different people. For Mrs Juliana Martins, it is one peculiar year she would never forget in a hurry as she was rendered a widow midway into it.
Killings in Jos wear a veil. Sometimes, it has a religious bent. In other times, it is ethnic. But the people know that it is both ethnic and religious and that it can spread to other regions of the country.
THE present situation at Igbokuta, a community in Ikorodu, Lagos is pathetic. The graphic picture of the entire community noted for its social and communal conviviality is now that of a desolate graveyard as men, women, children and even animals have fled the village for safety.
Following the collaboration between Edo State government and security agencies, the security situation of the state has improved in the past four months. Over two hundred suspected kidnappers are facing prosecution in the state while about sixty are serving jail terms.
In a new twist to the late Ogbe Onokpite’s murder saga, the Delta State Police Command under Police Commissioner Ibrahim Tsafe is insisting that the slain politician was a gun-runner. Being inundated with an avalanche of public censure and reprimand over this extra-judicial killing…
Police checkpoints across major highways in the country may not be the best spots at this season as motorists travelling for the Christmas and New Year festivities are groaning in pains, following the increasing number of such derogatively-labelled ‘’cheque-points’’ on Nigerian roads, obstructing free flow of traffic.
So, they eventually did it? Close observers of Boko Haram activities would say on hearing that the dreaded Islamic sect attacked Kano.
