Recently, the Senate recommended capital punishment for terrorists in the country. In this interview, Mr. Mike Ejiofor, a former Director of the Department of Security Services (SSS), commends the parliament for the bold step, but goes further to recommend same punishment for corrupt government officials. Excerpts:

Toxicologists in West Africa have warned against uncontrolled environmental pollution in the Niger Delta, blaming rampant cases of bareness among women under the productive age bracket on oil and gas pollution among others.

NATIONAL leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, yesterday, hailed the return of Cross River State governor, Liyel Imoke, stressing that he was now fully recharged to “continue the good works he has been doing in the state”.

Obu Udeozo, poet, painter and Clinical Psychologist is a lecturer in the Department of English, University of Jos. He is the publisher of landmark critical intervention on the third wave of Nigerian poetry titled, Garderners of Dream. In this interview, he speaks about the project that took him so much time and about other sundry issues. He spoke to McPhilips Nwachukwu.

Former Minister of Defence, Gen. Theophilous Danjuma, yesterday, raised the alarm that Northern Nigeria is in the “middle of a civil war”, following the upsurge of insurgency in the region.

THE Abavo Peoples Vanguard, an umbrella body of Abavo indigenes in Delta North senatorial district based in the United States and Europe, is dismayed over the decision by Pan Ocean Oil Corporation to relocate the flow station on OPL 275, originally mapped out at Obiayima community, to a neighboring town, it says has no oil or gas deposit.

THE much talked about 12th biennial conference of the umbrella body of Pentecostal churches in Nigeria, Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria, PFN ended in the Akwa Ibom State capital, Uyo with a renewed commitment by PFN leaders to use the divine mandate to take the gospel of Jesus Christ to greater heights through the elimination of every weight militating against the spread of the gospel in the country including bad eggs within.

Not quite long ago, there was this statement from the managers of our football league that the Nigerian Premier League was the best in Africa. Many questioned the veracity of such a position and if true, the criteria used in judging the various league across Africa.

Recently, Prof.(Mrs.)Pat Black,President, Soroptimist International of Great Britain & Ireland- SIGBI, paid a one-week to Nigeria. Soroptimist International is a worldwide organization for women in management and the professions, serving as a global voice for women and girls. SIGBI oversees all Soroptimists clubs in Common-wealth countries, including Nigeria.

In what is turning out to be a tragi-comedy, the public hearing on the investigation into the murder of Comrade Olaitan Oyerinde, the late Principal Private Secretary to Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State, revealed a gaping hole in the police investigation. Pitched against the report by the Department of State Security, DSS, the state government and civil society organizations are seeking to understand why the police are parading some persons different from those arrested by the DSS for the same crime. Worse still, the persons the police are holding responsible for the crime were, according to their own records in the cell, just as the alleged weapon used in the dastardly act was also in the custody of the police. This is the report of the public hearing.