NO fewer than 20 victims of kerosene explosion were on admission at different hospitals in Rivers State at the time of writing this piece. Some of them that could speak told the story of how they found themselves in the hospital when a team from the Department of Petroleum Resources, Port Harcourt unit visited them. A common trend in their story was that they got the killer kerosene from the road side

THE National Drug Law Enforcement Agency NDLEA has expressed worries over the low sentences usually passed on drug convicts by judges, saying the trend was encouraging illicit drug trafficking in the country. Aside that, the anti-drug agency said judges were equally trivializing drug offences by granting an ‘option of fine’ to suspects, adding that the action was capable of discouraging the fight against trafficking in hard drugs

Until one asked what made hundreds of women, who held their chests in fear, running almost naked to various public primary schools in Ibadan, capital of Oyo State, demanding the release of their children and wards by teachers, one would have thought the city had been run over by some heavily armed warriors

Save for a timely intervention by a team of mobile policemen from Gowon Estate and Agbado-Oke odo police station, a fresh crisis would have erupted at Oki Village in Alimosho Local Council Development Area, LCDA.

Today, as some Nigerians celebrate love in the spirit of Valentine’s Day, many Niger Delta people are mourning the loss of their loved ones. The journey to death began nine hours into the visit of President Goodluck Jonathan to Port Harcourt. He was on a campaign tour of the South South and the venue was the Liberation Stadium, Elekahia. People started trooping into the stadium as early as 7.30 a.m. They came from Bayelsa,