The newly posted Enugu State Commissioner of Police, Emmanuel Ojukwu,has assumed duty in his office at the State Police Headquarters,Enugu. Ojukwu who until now, was the Commissioner of Police incharge of Eastern Port Command Port-Harcourt,Rivers State,relieved CP Nwodibo Ekechukwu who was redeployed to Eastern Port Command.

The federal government had announced a new fuel pricing regime which had sent the pump price to an all time high of N145 per litre, and in some place far above that. This development was a culmination of the various economic crises that had attended the present government since inception.

On May 12, 1962, when Ike Ekweremadu was born in Mpu, Aninri LGA, there were no comets; there were no singing birds; not even the star; not even the wise men tracing the star; not even the traditional fortunetellers would tell that a great man had arrived. But today his homeland, Nigeria, and indeed the world, have recognised that a man in the person of Ike Ekweremadu is here.

Senator Buruji Kashamu, who was at one time famed as the financier of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP in the Southwest, may finally be putting his influence to where he has put his money. The Ogun East senator, who came to national political reckoning after smashing the dominant influence of President Olusegun Obasanjo over the affairs of the PDP, especially in the Southwest, was a repeating decimal in at least three states where the party elected new executives this week.

Pa Lot, a venerable pastor, parliamentarian and politician of the First Republic, spoke about the menace of the Fulani herdsmen in jocular terms, when I met him some decades ago in Jos. He was well into his 80s himself. He narrated how the herdsmen would arrive unannounced at a particular time of the year and would graze their cattle peacefully for a period of time, Then they would depart for greener pastures without any notice with only a part of the herd, leaving an appreciable number with only a few herdsmen in charge.