MANY days for the thief, one day for the owner. This popular saying aptly defines the violent episode of how Dennis Mejiren, 23, recovered his brand new purple Q-Link motorbike (Okada) moments after two armed men had dispossessed him of it at Otu-Jermi, headquarters of Ughelli South Local Government Area.

The Minister of State for Defence, Senator Musiliu Obanikoro, has thrown his weight behind the Nigerian Navy, saying it has contributed immensely to the security of the nation, especially as regards safety on the nation’s territorial waters.

They are currently living in forced exile as displaced victims of war and other violent crises. But this has not stopped about 80 children of refugees from different African countries from identifying with the global outrage over the abduction of over 270 schoolgirls from Government Girls Secondary School, Chibok, Borno State. In fact, they had used the last Children Day celebration to call for the immediate release of the kidnapped school girls who have been in captivity since April 14.

INDEED, it has been three years of unending crises at the Lagos State University, LASU, Ojo, since October 2011, when Governor Babatunde Fashola, sent a White Paper to the University’s Governing Council, announcing the implementation of a new fees regime, which saw tuition fees increased steeply from N25, 000 to as much as N348, 750

MUBI was for years the commercial nerve centre of Adamawa State. The fact that it shares borders with the Republic of Cameroun ensures that it enjoys business boom all the year round. Apart from its strategic commercial importance, the ancient city of Mubi equally boasts of no fewer than four higher institutions, thus making it also a centre of learning.