“We have a committee that is going around to monitor compliance with the strike, and the report reaching us is that there is 50 per cent compliance”

The move placed the IGP at the centre of one of the country’s most consequential policing debates, how to bring policing closer to communities while maintaining national standards and accountability.

At Ugbuwangue Secondary School in Warri South, classrooms are in disrepair, with some abandoned and the remaining usable spaces overcrowded

Thirty weeks pregnant and home alone, she felt what she thought was labour pain and dialled UK a emergency number. In less than three minutes, she said, four medics were at her door

“My late husband had two brothers who got married and had children before the three brothers incidentally died under suspicious circumstances, leaving me and my co-wives as young widows”