ONITSHA—A civil society group, International Society for Civil Liberties and the Rule of Law, Intersociety, has charged the Federal Government to order the Director-General, DG of Department of State Services, DSS, to release detained Publisher of Sahara Reporters, Omoyele Sowore and others with immediate effect, in the interest of democracy.

THE Obaship crisis over the installation of Amapetu of Mahin in Ilaje council area of Ondo State worsened, yesterday, as the Osuma Royal Family accused the state government of plans to install Prince Olusegun Akinyomi as the Amapetu despite the pendency of a suit in court.

THE All Progressives Congress, APC, in Osun State is engulfed in crisis as the process of selecting Commissioner-nominees has set factions in the party against each other.

WHY write a book? Having written a few, could this just be a habit? Each time I think book I think of the motive of the author, his view of the nature of man in society and the force of idea and explanation of nature or society. When you are the author, thinking about motive involves peculiar psycho-exploration in introspection. For me, the purpose of the excursion captured in this book derives from early embrace of a Pan Africanist view of the world.

IN Northern Nigeria, a massive push is underway to bring the chance to learn to millions of out-of-school children through Northern Nigeria’s #GiveNorthEducation movement hashtags on social media platforms. Nigeria is said to have the highest number of out of school children in the world.

THE Force Headquarters, yesterday, resolved to deploy a Special Anti- Kidnapping Squad to the six southwest states to address security challenges in the region.

Last week we noted that irrespective of the peculiar nature of small & medium enterprise, SMEs, in terms of standard operating procedures, SOPs, most banks expect the small business owner to operate a semblance of formalization in their business approach, as the bases for advancing them business loans.

The #RevolutionNow protest, which started in some parts of the country on Monday, came despite warning by the police, that the act was treasonable ab initio. The Monday’s protest in Lagos, Osun, Ondo and Cross River states  was characterised by mass arrest of the protesters by the police, who were combat ready.

The Katsina State Government, yesterday, issued an August 30, 2019 deadline to effect ban on unregistered tricycles and commercial motorcycles, popularly known as Okada, in the state.

GROWING up, I read Professor Anezi Okoro’s seminal 112-page book, One Week, One Trouble, in which the author, one of the country’s finest fiction writers of his generation, regaled the reader with the protagonist, Wilson Tagbo’s weekly troubles which were majorly run-ins with his secondary school authorities. I have had a cause in recent times to reflect again and again on the 1972 book. Replace the protagonist with President Muhammadu Buhari’s Nigeria and what you get is ‘one day, many troubles’. The similarities are too uncanny to be ignored by any perceptible mind.