That is what I am telling you. I just think, for example, what do I gain if I mess up with this lady and I am caught? Nothing. All my name and everything would be rubbished. That is enough to frighten you and say go away.

Chinua-Ogwu and one Alhaji Rasheed Alayande were in court on a four-count charge of conspiracy, stealing, extortion and obtaining money under false pretence from Mrs. Oyindamola Amuka.

Taylor had crept into public consciousness when in 1989 he began a civil war in Liberia, his home country against the blood-thirsty, corrupt, inept and cannibalistic dictatorship of General Samuel Doe.

Nobody faults Your Excellency’s chagrin at the Atlas Cove Jetty “affront” and the resultant strong call on the Niger Delta armed groups not to bring “war” into your area of security -jurisdiction. As Chief Security Officer of Lagos State (though this is a mere empty appellation without the concomitant executive powers that you would have in a true federation!) you probably did not see how else you could justify the oath you took to serve the people of Lagos aright.

In last week’s column, I confessed that I often feel like a square peg in a round hole in this country because I feel that I don’t have a typical Naija mindset.

By Emma Amaize WARRI—TOP Niger-Delta militant leader, “General” Boyloaf, yesterday, pointed accusing fingers at  some Ijaw youth leaders, who he said were visiting militant camps in the creeks and instigating  militant leaders and their boys not to accept amnesty because of the huge money they were making from the state of anarchy in the region, […]

The Director General of NEMA, AVM Mohammed Audu-Bida (rtd), disclosed this at the inaugural meeting of the panel, which has membership from the US-Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Federal Ministry of Health, Red Cross, representatives from State Emergency Management Agency (SEMAs) from Lagos and Bauchi and NEMA zonal coordinators, Head of Press and Public Relations,Yushau Shuaib, said in a statement.

However, SAP’s shock treatment appeared more drastic than the patient could well tolerate – massive doses of devaluation which disgraced the Naira; tough credit squeeze which reduced profitable investment and income policy that affected effective domestic demand.

Just as millions wallow in penury, we hear of billions been stolen, we hear of scandals – Siemens, Halliburton, failed banks etc. For the common man it is “when I turn here, the rain falls on me, I turn there, the sun shines on me … I can only go beyond and forget,” as the poet mourned a grave situation, so hopeless that only death could end his own sorrow too.

NIGERIANS who talk about revolutions should be interested in the revolutions taking place in the judiciary, especially as they affect bail conditions for suspects. Under what most judges term “stringent bail conditions” suspects are given conditions that are almost impossible to meet. From the fantabulous sums to the calibre of persons who should be sureties, […]