BARELY one week after police in Delta State intercepted rocket launchers, dynamites and double barrel guns along Ughelli/Patani road, a local gun manufacturer has been arrested in the state.

A London-based architect, Mrs. Oladele Williams-Oni, yesterday, narrated to an Ikeja High Court, Lagos, how she was defrauded of N17 million by a Shepherd in charge of the Celestial Church of Christ, Genesis Parish, Alagbado, Prophet Israel Ola-Ogundipe, over spiritual help.

THE contests in the three Oyo senatorial district are unarguably the battle of the fittest. It is a battle laced with intrigues, theatrics and all the political wonders that are characteristic of the Pace Setter State. With the exit of the traditional political godfathers the culture of imposition of candidates may have largely been phased out, though muttering here and there over subtle influences of some power brokers continue to resonate.

FINANCE Minister, Olusegun Aganga boasts about the growth of the Nigerian economy with rates that are better than the rest of the world except China and Indian. Last August, Aganga said, “real GDP has been measuring six per cent or higher in the past five years.” Good news but the grim unemployment figures from the National Bureau of Statistics, NBS, stated that national unemployment increased from 11.9 per cent in 2005 to 19.7 per cent in 2009, the highest since 2000.

Few hours into the botched National Assembly elections, residents of Lagos witnessed an overwhelming presence of security men in almost all the nooks and crannies of the state.