…Police offensive against menace…The last operation that nailed the gang.
FOR the past four years they had laid siege to Edo state, feeding fat on unsuspecting and hapless residents through hostage taking. Not a few prominent Edo indigens had sleepless nights and did all they could to assist security operatives to checkmate the menace.

There are times when I start saying something about Dr. Goodluck Jonathan and stop mid-sentence. It would suddenly occur to me that, no matter what, he is still the President of the country in which resides the most populous conglomeration of black people on this planet.

The Nigerian people, accustomed to life with frequent interrupted power supply at homes and business places, except those few having private generators, are suddenly to pay more for electricity as a new tariff regime comes into effect on June 1, 2012.

“Armed hoodlums are still holding Imo State and its citizens, hostage. Nobody knows who the next victim will be. Palpable fear and confusion has since taken over. The siege is real. People are angry and uneasy. A lot has already been written about the menace of these rampaging gangsters. People no longer have the boldness to discuss the issue openly because of the dire consequences of such bravery.

The Ondo Government has disbursed the sum of N83, 683,120.00 as loans to farmers in the state under the National Programme for Food Security (NPFS) for the execution of various agricultural activities.