Nothing is as provocative as the statement credited to the Commissioner of Police in Enugu State, Mr. Nwodibo Elechukwu, over last Monday massacre of hapless citizens of Ukpabi-Nimbo in Uzo-Uwani L.G.A of the state. He was quoted as stating that the actual figure of casualty was seven persons killed and 10 others injured while two houses were burnt. He went further to cast aspersion on the media by saying that none of them made attempt to ascertain what really happened before going to create panic with their reports concluding that the accounts published were far from the truth.

Sometime in 2001, at a meeting of the Fulani of West Africa that was convened in Cameroon, Muhammadu Buhari, not yet a president or even a presidential aspirant was one of the key speakers.

The Nigerian Football Federation has made contact with FIFA in a bid to get the go-ahead for their planned friendly against South Africa in the upcoming international break.

THE Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has raised the alarm that Treasury Single Account (TSA) is frustrating funding of research in universities. Aside this, the union said the policy has not only eroded universities autonomy but has also robbed them of the opportunity for short, medium and long-time planning.

The politics of Edo State charged up, last week, following the revelation that emanated after a peace meeting between Governor Adams Oshiomhole and his deputy, Dr Pius Odubu. The governor had, at the meeting, alleged that his deputy contracted native doctors to kill him. But his deputy denied the allegation vehemently, asserting that it was masterminded by people who wanted to destroy the cordial relationship between him and his boss over the past seven years.