Emotions ran high MOndday at the Oduduwa, Ikeja office of the Lagos State Police Public Relations Officer, Mr Frank Mba, following startling revelations of how the dismembered remains of a teenager was exhumed from Era cemetery in Ijaniki area of Lagos, 12 hours after it was interred.

SATISFIED with the developmental efforts of Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State, hundreds of youths under the aegis of Network for Good Governance, weekend, thronged the streets, appealing to the Governor to run for a second term.

The leadership of the Nigeria Automobile Technicians Association, NATA, at the Mechanic Village along Imiringi Road on the outskirts of Yenagoa, Bayalsa State, has condemned what it described as the high handedness of men of the Joint Task Force attached to the Saipem Oil Servicing Company, laying pipelines for oil major, Shell Petroleum Development Company Gas Gathering Plant.

“Journalists are men and women who keep us on our toes. Nigerians will continue to remember you and thank you for our hard won democracy. You spoke the minds of the people at a time nobody dared to speak, yet you are not the beneficiaries of the struggle.”

The sentencing did not go without some drama at the courthouse. First, there was a reporting restriction on the case, a Southwark Crown Court official, who chose to be unnamed was quoted as saying yesterday afternoon. During our first call, the official said the sentencing was moved from Court 8, which seats about 25 persons to Court 9 in order to accommodate more persons.