THE invasion: NIGER state police command is attuned to investigation and intelligence in the spirit of team work. Recently, through its operatives at the anti – kidnap squad and based on level profiled information, we swooped on Masalacin Zaki forest, in Mashegu local government area, described as the den of kidnappers in the state.

As an intervention strategy to bail out technology start-ups in Nigeria, CcHUB Growth Capital at the weekend disclosed that it would invest N1 billion to support next generation infrastructure technology entrepreneurs in Nigeria over the next 2 years.

THE Presidency, yesterday, raised alarm over the grave implications of grossly inadequate N20 billion proposed budget for the Presidential Amnesty Programme in the 2016 budget document.

THE recent spate of summary but affirmative decisions of the Supreme Court in hotly contested governorship election petitions gives dire warning of the urgent need for comprehensive electoral reform. Obviously, the Supreme Court relishes its image as a fearsome exponent of legal realism. Oliver Wendell Holmes, American jurist and avatar of this school, laid down its doctrine as “The prophecies of what the courts will do in fact, and nothing more pretentious” (emphasis original). Despite its capacity for judicial retardation and political cynicism, the Court has been gleefully torturing our civic sensibility with this doctrine for 35 years. One might say, “The votes of judges of the Nigerian Supreme Court, and no ballots more pretentious, determine elections.”

In its bid to find lasting solution to the recurring issue on land matters in Lagos, the state house of assembly yesterday set up a committee to come up with a bill that would address some of the bottlenecks on land issues.

A group known as Children with Cancer Intervention Initiative, CCII, has called on Nigerians to take their nutrition and diet very seriously, noting that most of the imported fruits and vegetables consumed are massively produced with chemicals.

The Lagos State Government yesterday assured residents of the State that it was working hard to consolidate on the gains recorded over the past few months in reducing crime to the barest minimum, just as it reiterated its commitment to always uphold security of lives and property.

Manchester City’s Sergio Aguero has been named Etihad player of the month for January.

The Argentine polled 50% of the vote to beat Nigeria’s Kelechi Iheanacho and Bacary Sagna to the second and third place respectively.

Cross River State governor, Senator Ben Ayade, his deputy, Professor Ivara Esu and all the executive council members have agreed on a cut on their monthly salaries.

Super Eagles coach, Sunday Oliseh may have talked himself into a hefty fine to be determined by his employers after he dubbed his critics as “insane” in a You-tube clip.

The paternal grandmother of Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi Ojaja II, Madam Mariani Adeyemi Ogunwusi is dead. She died Tuesday at the age of 104.

A civil society organisation, Legal Defence and Assistance Project, LEDAP, has asked a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja to declare that the post-Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME tests conducted by Universities, Polytechnics and Colleges before admitting students are illegal and should be abolished.

I was stunned but overjoyed when I won a N2 million naira promo of one of the telecoms companies months back. My name and pictures were in the papers and a few days after my win, my ex-fiancee got in touch and asked to see me again. She was the one who broke off the engagement two years ago and I was devastated when it happened.

Sergio Agüero has been named the Etihad player of the month for January, ahead of Nigeria’s Kelechi Iheanacho.

Governor Yahaya Bello of Kogi State, Tuesday, abolished arbitrary deductions from the allocations of Local Government Councils in the state.