There was pandemonium at the Ebute Ero end of the Lagos Island in the early hours of Sunday following the sudden appearance of an Arabic inscription ALLAH (God) on a patch of dry cement, on end of the road leading to Ebute Ero Welfare Association Market, Lagos Island Local Government, few meters away from the Police Division in the area.

IBADAN—FORMER Senate Leader, Senator Teslim Folarin, was, Wednesday, quizzed by the Oyo State Police Command.

Apart from the civil war, the year ended recorded one of the highest numbers of deaths and casualties in the history of this country. Apart from the Boko Haram phenomenon which has endlessly claimed the lives of defenseless and innocent people and of course which many believe have exposed the weakness and initial laissez faire attitude of the government in dealing with internal uprising effectively, the ill fated Dana crash that claimed the lives of 156 was also believed to be as a result of failure of government in proper regulation, standards and ensuring good enablement in the sector.

EDO Youth Congress, EYC, has alleged that a Warri-based lawyer, Mr. Casely Omon-Irabor, arraigned in court, last month, by the police in Delta State for allegedly offering N700,000 bribe to a police officer to let go a kidnap suspect, was a set up.

ON assumption of office as the acting Inspector- General of Nigeria Police, Alhaji MD Abubakar said of the police he is to lead: “Our men are deployed to rich and influential individuals and corporate entities that we lack manpower to provide security for the common man; our investigation departments cannot equitably handle matters unless those involved have money to part with. Our police stations, state Criminal Investigation Departments and operation offices have become business centres and collection points for rendering returns from all kind of squads and teams set up for the benefit of superior officers.”

BARELY four months after President Goodluck Jonathan commissioned a manufacturing outfit, Krisoral & Co ROPP plant at the Harbour Industrial Layout Ogbaru, Onitsha, a sister company, Eastern Distilleries and Food Industries Ltd has hit the market with a unique aromatic schnapps, Omega Aromatic Schnapps; a brand designed to deal with the problem of adulteration in the schnapps market.

A storey building on Igando Road, Lagos, yesterday went up in flames, destroying property which monetary value could not be immediately ascertained.

The National Economic Reconstruction Fund, NERFUND, said yesterday that it would create 500,000 new jobs in its bid to check unemployment in the country.

YENAGOA – THE people of riverside Korokorosei community in Southern Ijaw Local Government Area of Bayelsa State, yesterday, urged the state chapter of Civil Liberties Organisation, CLO, to prevail on the Speaker of the state House of Assembly, Mr Kombowei Benson not to provoke crisis in the community.

ABUJA— PRIMARY Health Development Agency, PHDA, Wednesday, called on President Goodluck Jonathan to sign into law the health bill currently before him, saying it would turn-around the sorry state of the health sector in the country.

Vitafoam Plc has announced a marginal decline in its financial performance for the year ended September, 2012 with both the profit and turnover dropping by 3.22 percent and 0.48 percent respectively.

The police in Bayelsa State have arrested three suspects over their alleged involvement in the December abduction of four Koreans and two Nigerians working with Hyundai Heavy Industries at Odioma in Brass Local Government Area of the state.

The Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Thursday repaid N146 billion worth of matured treasury bills even as the naira gained 35 kobo in the interbank foreign exchange market.

THE vanity and transience of our mortal struggles. I have just confirmed from my egbon in Abuja that the reported deaths of Governor Patrick Yakowa of Kaduna State,General Owoye Azazi and four others in a Naval Helicopter crash in Bayelsa State is indeed true.

Group opponents of Nigeria in the Afcon 2013 tourney, Burkina Faso and Zambia sent spies to monitor the Nigerian versus Catalonia selected game in Barcelona on Wednesday and they were pleasantly surprised at the quality on display.