The appointment of former Inspector-General of Police, Sir. Mike Mbama Okiro, as the Chairman of Police Service Commission was received with excitement by Nigerians who have been clamoring for positive changes in the administration of the embattled Nigeria Police. Sunday Vanguard went to town to feel the public pulse over the appointment.

FOR some months, tongues have been wagging in Delta State University, DELSU, Abraka, over an allegation that a 400-level medical student hacked into the phone of Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan, who is also the Visitor to the institution, and sent a text message to the Vice Chancellor, Prof Eric Arubayi, to ensure that he obtains credits in pharmacology and pathology courses, which he failed.

Marvelous’  alleged journey into kidnapping had been a successful one. The Aniocha Local Government Area of Delta State  indigene says he ventured into the illicit trade out of frustration. He narrates:

When I came back to Nigeria from Ghana, I   had no job and my parents were very poor. I met some of my classmates [...]

A Lagos High Court sitting in Igbosere yesterday, ordered a landlord to pro-duce a defendant, Friday Ibor, 33, within two weeks or go to prison, following his statement to the police that he will produce him when needed, if granted bail.

When a private clinic and maternity home, Jola-Oluwa Medical Clinic, was started over 20years ago by Dr. Kayode Koyejo, it was a succour to residents of Ikotun and its environs.

Anyone visiting Kadoko Konu area of Ikorodu, Lagos State, for the first time, will never suspect any act of illegality going on there, let alone suspect any of the residents whose facial disposition spells that of serious- minded individual as perpetrator.

Marvelous’ alleged journey into kidnapping had been a successful one. The Aniocha Local Government Area of Delta State indigene says he ventured into the illicit trade out of frustration. He narrates:

When I came back to Nigeria from Ghana, I had no job and my parents were very poor. I met some of my classmates who were doing very well and they told me they were into kidnapping. I offered to join them because I was very poor and I needed a way out and they accepted me. We kidnapped a businessman in Asaba and we got 20million ransom but the people I did the job with were very greedy.

…as Police investigate death of housewife
The family of late Mrs. Evelyn Uzodinma, who was beheaded by hoodlums about 10 months ago, at Egbu, Owerri North Local Council area of Imo State, has called on Police authorities in Abuja to take over investigations into the matter alleging that Imo State Police Command has been compromised.

For sometime now, residents of Adekunle Street, Isolo Lagos, have been going through untold torture in the hands of robbers who operate on motorcycles. Majority of the victims are women, whose hand bags were snatched, immediately they alighted from commercial buses at their designated bus-stops. Some of them reportedly sustained severe injuries in the process.

Like a little bush fire turned into a ravaging inferno, the discovery of two dead Fulani cows,allegedly poisoned in Zankan, an uphill village in Fadan Atakad Chiefdom, Kaura Local Government Area of Kaduna State, ignited a bloodbath in Atakad villages in Kaduna and Plateau States in the past three weeks.

A thirty-year-old man, whose name was simply given as Rowland, is now in police custody in Calabar for allegedly raping a thirteen-year-old girl.

Fear rules here. The signs are everywhere. Any vehicle that comes around to drop passengers intending to catch a bus out of Abuja is looked at with suspicion. And unlike the former practice, touts here no longer run after approaching vehicles as they scout for passengers. They allow the vehicles to stop and the passengers out before meeting them. Indeed the fear of suicide bomber operating in a vehicle has become the beginning of wisdom for touts at the Jabi Motor Park, Utako, Abuja since the bombing at the Sabon Gari Motor Park, Kano which claimed scores of lives.