Transformed from Operation “Restore Hope” to “Pulo Shield”, the Joint Task Force is scoring reported victories against crude oil thieves but giving corresponding leverage for renewed killings, kidnapping and other violent crimes in the coastal region.

An Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC witness, Mr. Joe Abba, yesterday told Justice Lateefa Okunnu of an Ikeja High Court that the over 20 billion units of shares were initially bought for some clients of the bank before he was instructed to transfer same to some directors of the bank.

Love is said to be the fire of life that neither consumes nor purifies; but for 35-year-old Janeth Odehgbe, hers was a different case as she has been set on fire by her husband following disagreement over her collecting a cup of wine from another man during a party they both attended.

WHAT do Nigerians make of the money and national honours President Goodluck Jonathan splashed on paralympians after their victories in London? Are celebrations of the paralympians over, as they were in 1996?

SENATE President David Mark yesterday went down memory lane that as our former colonial masters, Britain must help Nigeria nurture the present democracy.