“But the identities of the policemen who carried out the illegal and criminal operation are still being shielded by the authorities at Okigwe Division. “From the foregoing narrative, it is very clear that if the victim had died, it would have been very easy for the police to cover up or label him an armed robber or kidnapper.

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, yesterday filed fresh corruption charges against former governor of Bayelsa State, Timipre Sylva, at the Federal High Court, Abuja.

Christopher Okigbo, one of the founding fathers of Modern African Poetry, and indeed, sometimes regarded as the father of Modern African Poetry, made this statement in the poem “Elegy to the Slit Drum,” in his last collection, Paths of Thunder. It is all about the concept of fall and an enquiry into our notions and perception of the same concept.

At the end of each operation, I was paid N40,000. I kept weapons for four different robbery gangs. The police only recovered an AK 47 riffle with three magazines and a Baretta pistol from me. The weapons belong to a particular gang”, he said. Spokesman for the Ogun State Police Command, Olumuyiwa Adejobi, said the police was still on the trail of other fleeing members of the gang, assuring that they would get them.

“Nigerian students demand for free and affordable education from secondary to tertiary institution, reduction in exorbitant school fees; lasting solutions to HND/Bsc dichotomy as well as subverting seasonal industrial strikes in the subsector.” The BSc/HND disparity was also a sore spot for the Senate President of the National Association of Polytechnic Students, NAPS, Mr. Adeyemi Lukman who called on the new administration to “revisit pending issues in the sector.