After 64 gruelling days in kidnappers’ captivity, the six students of the Lagos State Model College, Igbonla, Epe, were rescued by the combined efforts of the Police and other security agents. The rescue operation reportedly left 20 of the gangsters dead while a civilian volunteer who assisted the security agents lost his life. Also, eight policemen and four other civilian volunteers were injured.

The recent invasion of the Kogi State House of Assembly by hoodlums has gone down in the history of the State as a day of infamy.

Following the commentaries at the backdrop of the positions taken at last week’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) meetings of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), a new wave of concerns over the economy appears to be on the front burner.

ONE attribute of democracy is the organisation of elections as at when due at all levels of governance. Dr Arthur Ifeanyi Okowa’s attitude to this, is regenerativeness aas opposed to what obtained during the era of his predecessor, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan who apointed sole administrators to mann the local government councils. For the eight years of Uduaghan as governor, he was only able to organise local government elections once, that is at the twilight of his exit from office, an aberration that could only be tolerated in a conservative political environment.

The recent warning by the World Health Organisation (WHO) about the global emergence and menace of Anti-Microbial Resistance (AMR) remains a source of worry. AMR is the resistance of a micro-organism to a drug that was originally effective for treatment of infections caused by that microbe. It is currently one of the greatest global crises in public health.