KADUNA—Malali, a confluence of low, medium and high income quarters of Kaduna town is under siege by armed gangsters, who unleashed terror on the area using daggers.

WORRIED by incessant cases of kidnap on Obior-Igbodo Road, Delta State, the government has moved to rehabilitate bad portions of roads in the state to check the increased criminality on failed roads.

EDO State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has accused Governor Adams Oshiomhole of recently commissioning projects not executed by his government in Ambrose Alli University, Ekpoma, insisting that the projects commissioned were executed by external interventionist bodies.

The Supreme Court of Nigeria, weekend, confirmed a death sentenced passed on one Nonso Okeke, 11 years after he murdered one Chinwe Ofomatu in a robbery attack at Festac area of Lagos State.

Historically, the CBN has compulsively devalued the Naira to bridge increasingly widening gaps between official and parallel exchange rates, even when these gaps were caused by the obtusely contrived monopolistic market dynamics of demand and supply. It would undoubtedly create much discomfort for CBN Management if unrestrained dollar demand further pushes parallel market rates well above N300=$1; in such event, CBN may again unwittingly, jerk up the official rate above N300 and remove the embedded ‘subsidy’ from the official Naira exchange rate so as to raise the dollar price and discourage demand and hopefully also minimise the inherent rent seeking market opportunities.

Big Cola as crafty as it is entered the market with same price for increased bottle size, which sight eluded competition, a bait that invariably attracted patronage, because ‘consumers want more for less’, a well thought out strategic plan one would say, which paid off for the product. Whether this swoop on the market will last long is a question to be answered by managers of Big cola. Mind you, brand watchers ears are on the ground.

ABUJA — The Federal Government warned, last night, that the United Arab Emirate, UAE, and Nigeria would no longer be safe haven for criminals following last week’s sealing of a string of agreements between the two countries.

Nigeria’s technology company, Concept Nova has introduced yet another IT solution, the C-Protect, to tackle the menace of vehicle vandalism in Nigeria. C-Protect, an anti-glass break solution, is an invisible coat of film which could be installed on car window glasses and vents to prevent the glass from shattering in an event of accidental glass break, theft or vandalism. It drastically reduces the ease of break-in during robbery by over 80 per cent as it is nearly impossible to break the glass even upon multiple hits.

The Nigerian Council of Registered Insurance Brokers, NCRIB, said that it is still looking at opportunity to assist some of its members delisted by the National Insurance Commission, NAICOM, over compliances issues. President of the NCRIB, Mr. Kayode Okunoren, said during a press conference held at the NCRIB house in Lagos last week, which they are looking at assisting those with minor infractions by interceding for them in NAICOM.

It is like a marriage made in Heaven which invariably produces great results. When Governor of Taraba State told me in November last year that his state capital, Jalingo, will in about three weeks, enjoy direct flight from Lagos, through Abuja, it sounded like one of those political promises “made to be broken” (apologies to Jonathan Swift, 1667-1745). Given the short period he had been in office, in one of the poorest states in the nation, and being distracted by his political adversaries, it would appear that sealing a deal with an airline to start operating a flight to Jalingo would be almost impossible.