A Scotland Yard anti-corruption detective and three former officers have been freed on bail after being arrested in connection with suspected bribery involving a convicted Nigerian fraudster.

IT was the late John F. Kennedy, the 35th American President who once said: “Let us think of education as the means of developing our greatest abilities, because in each of us there is a private hope and dream which, fulfilled, can be translated into benefit for everyone and greater strength for our nation”.

EMINENT Nigerians including erstwhile presidential aspirant, Professor Pat Utomi; chairman of the Subsidy Reinvestment and Empowerment Programme Board, Dr. Christopher Kolade; Mrs. Ibukun Awosika and Pastor Ituah Ighodalo will speak at the maiden Methodist Church of The Trinity, MCTT, Leadership Conference for Christian Youths in Business and Public Life.

…As hoodlums attack community, injure eight
OWERRI – A team of security personnel averted what would have been a blood bath in Owerri, when hired thugs attacked indigenes of Amawom in the disputed Area K of World Bank Housing Estate.

The Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) has said the statement by the Attorney-General of the Federation, Mr Mohammed Adoke, that Justice Ayo Salami’s reinstatement as recommended by the National Judicial Council (NJC) will be ‘subjudice’, is the clearest indication yet that the Jonathan Administration is not sincere.

Yenagoa – The Joint Task Force, JTF, in the Niger Delta, codenamed Operation Pulo Shield, has intercepted another vessel loaded with 600,000 litres of allegedly stolen crude oil in the creek of Akassa, in Brass Local Government Area of Bayelsa State.

KADUNA- Emir of Kano, Alhaji Ado Bayero, yesterday, said that the continued violence in the North was not Islamic, saying “Islam means peace and tolerance.’’

Tragedy struck, yesterday, after 15 officials of Ogun state Traffic Compliance and Enforcement Corps, TRACE, in Abeokuta, beat a man identified as Samuel Adoke, to death for driving on a road that is yet to be commissioned.

Nigeria Bureau of Statistics (NBS) has said that the partial removal of subsidy on petroleum prices, the concomitant strike action and civil protest slowed economic growth to 6.17 per cent in the fist quarter of the year even as the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) warned that the proposed removal of its autonomy can lead to a collapse of the nation’s economy.

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has told a Federal High Court sitting in Lafia, Nasarawa State presided over by Justice Marcel Awokulehin, that a former Nasarawa State governor, Aliyu Akwe Doma and six others standing trial on a 17-count criminal charge of laundering state funds totaling over N18 billion, have a case to answer.

WHY do we amend the Constitution so often yet end up more dissatisfied with the document? What are the important items that should be changed to make the Constitution workable?

An Igbosere Magistrate’s Court, Lagos, has remanded three persons, arraigned for the killing of one Wasiu Ajose by setting him ablaze, following a fight of supremacy over control of Mushin and its motor parks, which had been on since 2009.

Lagos State Government is seeking N31.4 billion ($200m) loan from the World Bank, to fund strategic projects in the state this year.

ELEVEN suspected members of a robbery gang were arrested by the Lagos Police Command which foiled their attempt to rob a new generation bank at Gbagada area of the state.

The former Governor of Kwara State, Senator Bukola Saraki, yesterday, withdrew the application he filed before a Federal High Court in Abuja with a view to stopping the Special Fraud Unit of the Nigerian Police Force from arresting him over his alleged involvement in an N21billion loan scam.