St Finbar’s Church and Haruna John’s death
As at the last count, the Boko Haram menace, bombings, coordinated attacks and failed attempts resulting in IEDs exploding, and burning of schools had consumed the lives of over 1, 200 persons. This was before the sad helicopter crash of Wednesday 14th March 2012, in Jos when the BELL helicopter carrying DIG Haruna John, the DIG in charge of operations at Force headquarters, ACP Garba Yelwa (Pilot), CSP Alexander Pwol-Ja (Co-Pilot), and Sergeant Sonatian Shirunam (Orderly), crashed.
Police arrest 35 suspected cultists in Cross River
ABOUT 35 persons suspected to be members of secret cults that have been terrorizing residents of Calabar, the Cross River state capital for five days have been arrested by the state Police Command.
My mission is to reclaim South East for PDP – Akobundu
As the National Convention of the Peoples Democratic Party, draws near, an aspirant of the National Vice Chairmanship position, Colonel Austin Akobundu (rtd.), has said that his mission is for the party to completely take over the five South Eastern states given its predominance and acceptability by the people in the region.
Lagos, centre of excellence?
I visited Lagos lastyear from my base in Abuja, for the funeral ceremony of Mrs Florence Akinlemibola, the mother of my childhood friend. She lived to a ripe old age—so it was ‘owambe’ galore. We adorned our ‘aso ebis’ and boogied to juju live band music as we sent mama on her way to a glorious home-coming.
NFC, NCC and WIPO unite against piracy
An international workshop that will further strengthen the fight against piracy and copyright infringement in Nigeria is scheduled to hold in Lagos, the commercial nerve centre of the nation next month.
Gunmen kidnap INC scribe, demand N40m ransom
NATIONAL Secretary of the Ijaw National Congress, INC, the apex Ijaw group in Niger-Delta, Barrister Robinson Esite was kidnapped, Friday and whisked to an unknown hideout by gunmen, who are demanding N40 million ransom for his release.
