The Federal Government has said it would reposition the Nigeria Police Force to effectively battle terrorism and other crimes and criminalities.

A chieftin of ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and factional governorship candidate of the party in Abia in 2011, Chief Ikechi Emenike, has decamped to All Progressives Congress, APC.APC-PDP

Two news pieces last week have influenced this column which incidentally is the first in the new year.

Retired Bishop of Anglican Diocese of Mbaise, Rt. Rev. Bright Ogu, has cautioned politicians against making inflammatory remarks capable of inciting the citizenry against the government of the day.

OWERRI—Imo State government has challenged Minister of External Affairs, Professor Viola Onwuliri, to get the federal government to account for missing billions of naira in the oil sector before asking for its own accountability.

There have been talks of Africa’s financial integration for more than two decades, but there aren’t any concerted, credible and encouraging signs that Africa is nearing its goals and objective of financial integration apart from a few disjointed accounts from various analysts’ opinions on Africa’s regional financial integration achievements.

IN Yamshyi, a small, sleepy community of farmers and rural dwellers in Kaduna State, routine incidences of rape of young girls are commonplace. The abominable act is usually perpetrated by males and other sexual predators under the pretex of assisting the unsuspecting victims to cross the dangerously water logged bridge which is the only bridge linking the settlement with the outside world.

The Western Marine Command, Nigerian Customs Service, NCS, weekend, said the synergy between it and the Intelligence Unit had helped in stemming smuggling in 2013.

Buoyed by the performance of Nigeria’s Super Eagles in Saturday’s friendly match against Ethiopia, NFF’s Director of Competitions, Sanusi Mohammed has tipped Nigeria as the team to beat in the upcoming African Nations Championship.

The Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry, LCCI, weekend, declared that the Nigerian economy will remain strong in 2014, while forecasting that the Gross Domestic Growth, GDP, would grow at over six per cent relative to the global average of 3.1 per cent.

Often time people engage in all sort of shady deals and call it business. This should not be, because any act/trade that is not genuine and is to the detriment of others cannot be called a business, especially if it doesn’t fall within the confines of the law or is aimed at getting profit wrongly.

LIKE many spheres of society, a lot is wrong with the judiciary. Ordinarily, society’s general failings could be excuses for the poor performance of the judiciary, but if we accept that the courts are the last hope of all seeking justice, no excuses would suffice for their glaring laxities.

National Secretary of Nigeria Ship-owners Association, (NISA), Captain Niyi Labinjo, has accused the management of the Maritime Administration and Safety Agency, NIMASA, of abandoning its core function .

AFTER 10 years of protracted legal tussle, the Court of Appeal sitting in Kaduna has upheld the suit brought before it by the Nigeria Association of General Practice Pharmacist Employers, NAGPPE, against the Pharmacists Council of Nigeria, PCN.

Chairperson, House of Representative Committee on Aviation, Hon Nkeiruka Onyejeocha has awarded scholarships to students of Isuikwuato/Umunneochi Federal Constituency of Abia State, from primary to secondary school and university levels.