ENUGU—MISTER Linus Okeke is a retired Assistant Superintendent of Police, ASP. He was once the Enugu State Police command Bandmaster, who played the national anthem at the swearing in of Enugu State governor, Sullivan Chime about eight years ago. Ironically, barely few weeks to May 29, when the governor would be taking his exit, Okeke and his wife, a teacher at a private primary school are presently in tears.

A FORMER President of the Nigerian Institute of Quantity Surveyors, NIQS, Mr. Joseph Olusegun Ajanlekoko has been elected the President of the Commonwealth Association of Surveying and Land Economy, CASLE, the umbrella body for all the surveying professions in the 54 countries that make up the Commonwealth.

By Levinus Nwabughiogu His eyes did not only stick on the  targets or his hands only on the trigger as a combatant soldier. He also had them searching for a beauty. And truly, he eventually got one. That makes him a complete marksman and generalissimo. Anyone who has seen the would-be First Lady of the […]

An interesting drama played out in Lagos recently, after some criminals who were with two baboons waylaid a man as he was coming out from the bank at Ogba area of the state. The unsuspecting victim who withdrew the sum of N230,000 from the bank was shocked when he stepped out only to see some roughly dressed young men with two giant-sized baboons starring at him menacingly. Without blinking an eyelid, the man took to his heels, abandoning his bag of money.

“During the existence of the airline in those days, we were told that pension was for life, when you finish serving and you reach a pensionable level, you take your pension for life, but suddenly when they liquidated the airline, they said they commuted the pension to five years. I retired in year 2000 and today is year 2015, maybe they thought that I would die and today, I have not died.

One good thing about the administration of President Goodluck Jonathan is that he easily accepts good initiatives and funds it especially when it concerns development.

W hile the battle to route Boko Haram insurgents within six weeks as promised by the Federal government rages, an army officer, nursing the wounds and deep feelings over the whole incident, spoke exhaustively to Saturday Vanguard about his battle field experiences at Gombe and Yobe axis and why he deserted the profession he loves so much. His narration which runs like a ‘war memoir’ is as interesting although the military has recorded reasonable success with more equipment with which they have attacked terror camps and killed a great number of them. However we present to you an interesting account of an officer who deserted the army from the battle front

Amnesty International has claimed that Boko Haram killed a woman who was in labour during its attack on Baga- believed to be the deadliest attack of the militants’ six-year insurgency.

Nothing could be more harrowing than losing one’s husband, and being driven out of the matrimonial home. But the ensuing drama was even more gruesome than she had imagined.

Chioma, a secondary school student had always nursed the dream of becoming a medical doctor.
This dream would have been dashed if her mother had succeeded in marrying her off to a rich chief. Her mother’s wish was borne out of the abject poverty and untold hardship they’ve been subjected to since her father abandoned them and ran off with another woman.