The instigations for the two young women’s journey are familiar: To seek greener pastures and start a new life in the Western world, from Europe to America. 19-year-old Lamidi Basirat from Oyo, was promised a hairdressing career in the US, while Yusuf Hafsat Omobolanle, aged 32 and a trained nurse based in Lagos, was assured of a lucrative nursing job also in the US. But both women, like others they met over there, were only being lured into prostitution in Libya.

No fewer than 35 armed robbery,kidnap and secret cult suspects were paraded by the Enugu Police Command this week following their arrests by various operational units of the command through its intelligence policing strategy adopted by the newly posted Commissioner,Nwodibo Ekechukwu.

Issues arising from the governorship succession in Edo State are bound to raise lessons in loyalty and political fidelity.

I was at St. Peter and Paul Catholic Church, Baruwa, Iyana Ipaja, Lagos, on Sunday, February 28, 2016, at the instance of the Priest-in-Charge, Rev. Fr. Theodore Martinos, to give a talk to kick start the parish’s Family Reconciliation Week. The talk was a cocktail of Conflict Resolution, Marital Communication and Forgiveness, three topics we have treated in this column.

In Enugu State,the unbridled activities of Fulani Herdsmen have inflicted pain,displaced individuals and communities even as there is growing perception of active connivance with the police which accounts for the lackluster disposition police adopts whenever there is an incident.