Akwa Ibom State Police Command has arrested 12 kidnappers and invaded robbery and kidnapping dens in the state. The police also rescued about five persons held hostage, while their abductors were waiting to collect ransom.

THE unexpected visit of mobile policemen led by the Commander, MOPOL 2, Keffi, Patrick Ejedawe, to Obadore street in Igando area of Lagos, weekend, sent shivers down the spines of the residents.

EBONYI State command of the State Security Service, SSS, weekend, foiled a plot by some party supporters to destabilize proceedings at the Governorship Petition Tribunal sitting in Abakaliki.

A bullish trend was recorded in trading in the Nigerian Stock Exchange, NSE, last week, as the value of listed equities represented by the market capitalisation appreciated by N54.37 billion

Enugu State House of Assembly has asked road contractors in the state, whose completed projects collapsed few months after execution, to return to site and effect repairs on the affected roads within one month or risk being blacklisted.

The Central Bank of Nigeria has been unusually silent on the widening gap between the official exchange and the Bureau de Change (BDC) rates of the naira to the dollar.

Samson Siasia was in a dilemma before the failure against Guinea Saturday. He did not want to field Mikel Obi because of the attitude of the Chelsea player. Obi was late to camp and his reason for not beating the deadline to report to camp appeared more offending.

Institute of Chartered Economists of Nigeria, ICEN, has urged the Federal Government to intervene in the on-going crisis at the Delta Steel Company, DSC, where some Indians are on hunger strike over non-payment of their salaries and other entitlements in the last three months.

Nigeria captain Joseph Yobo was left deflated after ill-informed team officials misled the Super Eagles during the African Cup of Nations qualifier against Guinea on Saturday.

But for his position as a foremost traditional ruler in Nigeria, Sultan Sa’ad Abubakar of Sokoto, mni, CFR, (he is the President-General, Nigerian Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs [NSCIA]) could as well just pass for an intellectual – without prejudice to his military background.