The recent multiple auto accident on the Otedola Bridge along the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway which claimed several lives has once again brought to the fore the question of alleged police culpability in such incidents.

I was in the Caribbeans when the President, Goodluck Jonathan landed Washington and was accosted by the good old Amanpour and was very alarmed when the aggressive lady nearly croossed her lines and her legs in reaching for the calves of our dear President

Governor Martin Elechi of Ebonyi State has challenged Nigerian journalists to use their position as the watch-dog of the society to ensure that the nation attains its development objectives

WHEN Prince Adetokumbo Kayode, Minister of Defence, assumed office several months ago and undertook a familiarisation visit to the Defence Headquarters in Abuja, the media asked him what he and his Minister of State, Alhaji Murtala Shehu Yar’Adua intended to do about a very frightening issue but which is being neglected by government, which is the review of the terms and conditions of service (TACOS) of officers and soldiers of the Nigerian armed forces.

ANOTHER batch of Anambra Vigilance Service, AVS, has completed a training programme in Awka, with the coordinator of the service, Chief Kenneth Okonkwo, warning that any member found wanting in his duties would be shown the way out

DELTA State House of Assembly aspirant, Mr. Paul Bebenimibo, has called on the Itsekiri ethnic nationality to join forces with the Ijaw to develop Warri and fight their common enemies, which he described as poverty, oil multinationals and the Federal Government.

As part of the on-going constitutional amendment, the House of Representatives will consider boundary adjustment during the state creation to be embarked on by the National Assembly

INDUSTRIALISTS and other stakeholders in Sapele/Okpe community, Delta State, have expressed interest in the purchase of the Sapele Power Station, located in Sapele, which the Federal Government had put up for sale.

Independent Corrupt Practices and other related offences Commission, ICPC, have quizzed 22 lawmakers of Plateau State House of Assembly in connection with N880 million constituency project funds they allegedly got in 2007 and 2008.

Another warped reasoning in Isyaku Ibrahim’s interview was his explanation of why the South-South should be grateful to the North. “When Biafrans invaded the Mid-Western region, it was the Nigerian Army, led by Murtala (Muhammed) that liberated the Mid-West … And that war was executed with the money from groundnut, cocoa, cotton, tin, etc, because the oil area was cut off … With all their talking, they were not in a position even to defend the oil.”

THERE was pandemonium yesterday at the Government Reservation Area, GRA, in Benin City, Edo State, when a senior lecturer in the Department of Petroleum Engineering, University of Benin, UNIBEN, Dr Balvant Rai, an Indian, was found dead few meters from his home.

The Nigerian police yesterday arraigned a 31-year-old man, Mr Adamu Danladi, before an Abuja Magistrate court on the allegation that he brutally raped a 6-year-old girl and left her unconscious

THE leadership tussle at the Tansian University, Oba, Anambra State, has taken a new dimension as unknown persons drafted about 15 stern-looking mobile policemen to the institution, who blocked the gates and scared workers and visitors

THE Conference of Nigeria Political Parties, CNPP, yesterday faulted report of reactivated presidential task force which asked the Federal Government to raised bonds to finance the settlement of workers of NITEL/MTEL

FRESH crisis is looming in the Edo State House of Assembly, following plans by members of the House to impeach the Speaker, Bright Omokhodion, for alleged dictatorial tendencies and failure to check the executive.