THE serene atmosphere in Pend Motel, located on Elelenwo road, an outskirt of Port Harcourt was jolted that Monday night when a strange casket found its way into the hotel premises

For some time now, Nigeria has been grappling with the challenges of violent crime, including armed robbery and kidnapping. At a point, no day passed without reports of either either armed robbery or kidnapping renting the air. Precious lives were sadly lost in these beastly acts.

Six months is inadequate, we should be looking at a minimum of 18 months; for instance, the total population of Ghana is about 22 million while the total subscriber rate is about 11 million and they are looking at 12 to 18 months for registration exercise

The gale of arrests initiated by the Special Fraud Unit of the Nigeria Police Force recently swept a 65-year-old man off his feet for alleged impersonation and tendering forged title documents in court to stand as surety.

“We call on the state government to speedily enter into useful negotiations with the health workers with a view to giving the health workers a firm commitment on Governments readiness to fully implement the new salary scales for health workers. As the state government did for ASUU by fully implementing the new salary scale for lecturers in Ambrose Alli University (CONUASS), we passionately call on the government to do the same for health workers, especially as the CONMESS salary scale was approved and circularized before that of ASUU (CONUASS).