The recent announcement of the nomination of former Inspector-General of Police, Sir Mike Mbama Okiro, to head the Police Service Commission, (PSC), was received with wild jubilation across the length and breath of the country. In fact, the joy was more pronounced in police formations across the country as both the rank and file openly commended the choice made by President Goodluck Jonathan even when the relevant bodies are yet to endorse it.

Saturday, May 4, 2013 made it one year since the Principal Private Secretary to Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State, Comrade Olaitan Oyerinde, was murdered by unknown gunmen at his residence in Ugbor, GRA, Benin-City. He was shot dead in the presence of his wife, Funke. Sadly, investigations into the killing are puzzling. The Department of State Security (DSS) linked his death to armed robbery that went awry but the police declared it was pure assassination.

…I will defend my husband’s status even in death—widow
Family of late Adindu Ohamara, the 34-year-old banker who was murdered in his Akoka abode in Lagos, three weeks ago, has described as untrue report that their late brother was a gay, calling on the police to unravel the circumstance that led to his death and bring his killers to book.

A Petty trader, Mrs. Rose Abbey got what she didn’t bargain for when she was allegedly detained in a Micro Finance Bank at Ipaja area of Lagos, for failing to pay a weekly N2,000 earlier agreed on towards offsetting the N17,000 loan she borrowed from the bank.

A suspected drug trafficker, Onedigbo Chibueze, narrowly escaped death recently in Lagos after he failed to excrete a wrap of cocaine which he inserted into his anus while trying to smuggle illicit drugs to Pakistan. The suspect was arrested alongside one other, Akwaeze Anthony, at the Murtala Mohammed International Airport, MMIA, when operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, during routine screening of Qatar Airline flight spotted and apprehended them.