Esther was a brilliant girl. A girl I was looking forward to her becoming great in life. I struggled to ensure she went to school so that her father’s family members would not say I refused to send her to school. Her thought will forever linger in my memory.

Vanguard Media head office on Kirikiri Canal, Apapa, Lagos, kinsmen to the detained Mike Okonkwo led by Messrs Bonny Okonkwo, Sam Ajuluchukwu and Jerry Okwosa all natives of Oraifitie in Anambra state and members of Ifite-Oraifite Progressive Union, Lagos described the arrest of their kinsman as sponsored and politically motivated

Residents of Lagos were last week shocked when photographs of a 30/40 feet well stored with petroleum products were beamed on their televison screens. In fact, more shocking was the fact that the well was originally dug for purposes of supplying water to a wood producing factory only for it to be cleverly converted into fuel dump.

The robbers numbering about eight, as gathered, stormed the church at about 1am, during a vigil on July 18, 2010. They reportedly positioned themselves strategically, pretending to be worshipers, with two of them at the entrance of the church apparently to alert their colleagues of any counter attack.

It may not sound strange in the present day Nigeria that someone was duped of the sum of N231million but it becomes annoying when the cheated person is now being threatened not to cry out or invite any security agency or anti-graft agencies to come to his aid, else he would be dealt with.

They are four in number, although with different faces, heights and complexion but have one thing in common, frustration!, as they put it, led them to form a robbery gang . They operate in Ijebu-Ode at nights, only to come back to Lagos next morning, pretending to have gone to work.

Lagos State Police Command seem to be ahead of all commands in the country in implementing, to the letter, all policy directions, criminal strategies and manoeuvrers mapped out by their authorities in Abuja. When detectives from the command are not pursuing fleeing criminals who operated freely in other states, they are busy tracking and arresting dare-devil kidnappers.

Early morning release of four Lagos-based journalists, Sunday inside the hinterlands in far-away Ukpakiri, Ngwa Local Government Area of Abia State, should not just be simply celebrated. It should be a poignant call to duty for both the people, security agents and governments at the local, state and Federal levels.

Ofonime Hanson Edwin, is a technician from Akwa Ibom state. He works as a technician in Hydro-tech company, a subsidiary of African Fertilizer, which manufactures alum, sulfuric acid and acid, located in Igbesa in Ogun state. Tragedy, occurred recently in his place of work, which resulted in his being confined to the hospital bed for a long period of time.

Minister of Information and Communications, Dr. Dora Akunyiri and the Governor of Anambra State, Mr Peter Obi have thrown their weight behind the maiden edition of Information and Communication Technology Exhibition Conference, tagged ITEC Abuja 2010.