Hon. Godwin Adindu, Special Assistant on Media to Abia State Governor Theodore Orji, is also the President-General of the Abia Renaissance Movement (ARM), a socio-political group. After ARM’s second Annual General Meeting (AGM) took place , he addressed journalists on the vision of the group and why Nigeria needs to tap from the skills of the Abia governor. Excerpts:

The new Benue State Commissioner of Police, Mr. Adams Audu has taken his crackdown on crimes to the door steps of rapists and those who take pleasure in defiling unsuspecting women, with the arrest of five suspects in four rape cases. The suspects who were arrested in different parts of the town are currently helping the police in its investigations into similar cases in the state.

The police in Umuabor Division in Nsukka L.G.A of Enugu State have nabbed a suspect believed to be a notorious armed robber identified as Ezema Julius alias Mororo who has been terrorizing Ede- Oballa Nsukka and its environs. He was arrested by the operatives during a raid of suspected criminal hide out carried out in the area recently.

A 51-year-old businessman, Mr Patrick Egbe, has been sentenced to three years imprisonment at Ikoyi prison over fraud and theft by an Igbosere Magistrate’s Court in Lagos.

The Police in Lagos, last Thursday, arraigned the General Overseer of Household of Destiny Church in Ajao Estate, Lagos, Reverend Praise M.C. Bassey, for alleged stealing and obtaining N3 million from a lady, Divine Arong , a staff of Cross River State Governor’s office in Calabar.

A former Administrative Officer with one of the leading telecom companies in Nigeria (name withheld), Udoh Ekepete Kyrian, 34, and one other suspect, Ikechukwu Attah, 31, were, last week, arraigned before a Lagos Magistrate’s Court sitting in Ikeja, for allegedly stealing N50.9million from their victims.

The arrival of 30 armed men at the Olokuta Medium Security Prison, Akure, at about 12.05 a.m., last Sunday, in commando style, shouting, ‘We are Boko Haram’, was enough to send jitters down the spines of the prison officials.

The embalment of the remains of a 78-year-old Madam Lucy Osigwe by one of her children, Dr. Chimezie Osigwe, a devotee of the founder of One Love Family, Satguru Maharaj Ji, since 2003, continues to generate ripples. The incident has launched the serene town of Ejemekuru, Imo State into public discourse. The allegation against Dr. Osigwe, currently in police detention, is that he used the remains of his mother for ritual and that two other members of the family had also been used.

There was pandemonium at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital, LUTH, Idi-Araba, Lagos, on Monday June 24, 2013, following a breakdown of law and order at the Federal health institution’s Accident and Emergency (A & E) ward in the outpatient’s department.

Two Chinese national,LU Xiaoyong and Huaiming Geng have been arrested by the Department of State Service,DSS, Niger State command for their alleged involvement in illegal mining in the state. Also arrested along with them are 11 Nigerians including one Mohammed Bello who had been serving as their collaborator while 10 others were employed by the foreigners as labourers.