WHEN in 1987, a presidential order was issued to the Inspector General of Police to fish out a notorious criminal, few days after, Lawrence Anini, the criminal who was terrorising Benin City, was arrested.

Dana Air plane was, yesterday, involved in an emergency landing at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos.

BENIN – Edo State Government, yesterday, launched its N10 billion Security Appeal fund with the former Governor Lagos State, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, saying that the Federal Government had failed to tackle the security challenges in the country.

The Federal Government has agreed to implement its 2009 agreement with the Non-Academic Staff of Universities (NASU). This was disclosed in Abuja, yesterday, by the Minister of Labour and Productivity, Chief Emeka Wogu, while delivering his speech at the commissioning of the new secretariat complex of the union built at Wuye District of the FCT.

WEEKS after the House of Representatives released the damning report of its investigations into the utilization of fuel subsidy by oil importers, expectations for quick government action on the report are increasingly mired in politics. The cabal is even fighting back!

Doctor Taibat Otulana of Olabisi Onabanjo University Teaching Hospital, OOUTH, Sagamu, Ogun State, who was abducted six days ago by unknown persons, was released on Wednesday night, in Ijebu-Ode.

NFF President Aminu Maigari will be at the head of Nigeria Football Federation’s delegation to the eighth day prayer for departed Super Eagles’ legend Rashidi Yekini.

…displaces illegal immigrants, criminals under bridges
The Joint Task Force, comprising the state security agencies and the military, led by the Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Umar Manko, last Monday swooped on Apapa and its environs, removing over 60 trucks and other articulated vehicles, parked indiscriminately around the area, following the expiration of a 72-hour ultimatum issued by the state government to remove them.

The Nigeria Football Federation has confirmed the UJ Esuene Stadium, Calabar as venue for next month’s 2014 FIFA World Cup and 2013 African Cup of Nations qualifying matches involving the Senior National Team,Super Eagles.

IF the stance and disposition of the Federal Government and governors of the 36 states of the country were anything to go by, peaceful resolution of the prevailing wind of insecurity unleashed by a militant Islamic sect is in the offing.

Nigerian Association of Road Transport Owners, NARTO, and Association of Petroleum Tanker Drivers, PTD, have asked the Federal Government to provide them with ready and conducive parking lot in Tafa town on Abuja-Kaduna Road before they would vacate the road.

BIRTHDAYS are observed or celebrated for various reasons. I suspect that Sam’s birthday is being marked by his friends, colleagues and associates not necessarily because of the quantum of 50 years per se but because there is ample evidence to show that all or part of these 50 years have been well spent far beyond the needs of Sam and his immediate family and friends.

Worried by recent attacks on universities, particularly the bombing of Bayero University, Kano, where over 15 died and several others injured, Minister of Education, Ruqayyatu Rufa’i, has cried to the Federal Executive Council, FEC, for solutions.

A war of words have been averted between Munachi Abii and Rap Lord Mode 9. Their scuffle began shortly after the Nokia “Don’t break The Beat” competition which held about two months ago.

Big Brother StarGame kicked off on Sunday night with a big bang!“From celebrities to uber hot Downville housemates and a performance by American Star J Cole, it was definitely a star-bright beginning for the new season of Big Brother Africa.