Immediate past Secretary of Civil Liberties Organisation, CLO, in Bayelsa State, Mr. Alagoa Morris, has described Friday’s killing of 12 policemen on the Azuzuama waterways in Southern Ijaw Local Government Area of the state as barbaric and criminal.

The top five Nigerian banks owned 60 percent of the banking sector assets in the country. This was contained in a report released, Tuesday, by The Banker, a publication of Financial Times of London.

AWKA — THE Joint team of Nigerian Army and Naval officials Tuesday discovered over 23 illegal oil bunkering sites in Anambra State and equipment worth about N500 million.

IN the March 20 and 27, 2013 editions of this column entitled “The ICPC/NUC report and sexual harassment in Nigerian universities”, I questioned the validity of the claim attributed to the ICPC chair, Ekpo Nta, based on a pilot study conducted by the anti-graft body and the NUC, that corruption ranked very high among corrupt practices in our universities.

Emotions ran high, yesterday, at the Federal Medical Centre, Yenagoa Bayelsa State, as the remains of 11 out of the 12 policemen killed last Friday were deposited at the hospital’s morgue.