The serene atmosphere reminiscent of Eleweeran, along Abeokuta/Ibadan road in Ogun state, was Tuesday punctured by the staccato sound of armed robbers’ gunshots as they stormed the area to snatch vehicles.

The bridge, though not yet officially commissioned, has been completed and ordered to be opened for use by Governor Bukola Saraki to ease the usually protracted traffic congestion which the closure of the area has caused the motorists during the almost two years it was under construction.

THE serene atmosphere in Pend Motel, located on Elelenwo road, an outskirt of Port Harcourt was jolted that Monday night when a strange casket found its way into the hotel premises

For some time now, Nigeria has been grappling with the challenges of violent crime, including armed robbery and kidnapping. At a point, no day passed without reports of either either armed robbery or kidnapping renting the air. Precious lives were sadly lost in these beastly acts.

Driver, are you having diarrhoea of the mouth? Since we left Oshodi over 30 minutes ago, you have been talking non-stop. Please concentrate on your driving,” said Mike who was visibly irritated by the constant chattering by the driver..

Governor Babatunde Raji Fashola (SAN) of Lagos State has advocated for state policing arguing that its existence will tremendously held nib the commission of crimes in the bud. The governor spoke in his Alausa office, Ikeja while receiving the four kidnapped and released Journalists and their driver who were on their way back to Lagos after an official assignment in Uyo, the Ikwa-Ibom state capital. He said there was dire need to quickly restructure what he referred to as” the faulty federal structure in Nigeria” identifying state police as one of the faulty federal structures.

Senator Ameh Ebute may not command the feisty, bullish mannerism of a radical but his thoughts are! Leading a new coalition – National Movement for Equality and Change – Ebute, who replaced Iyorchia Ayu as Senate President at the height of the annulment of the June 12 Presidential elections won by MKO Abiola, insists that what his group is doing now is not about opportunism. “What informed this movement is the fact that Nigeria has existed for 50years and we also discovered going through history, that a particular area of the country had dominated governance and the political leadership of the country.

IGARA, a town in Akoko Edo Local Government Area of Edo state, was thrown into mourning penultimate week after a middle-aged man, identified as Topa Williams allegedly grabbed a young girl identified as Ozavize Ogunmah who was hawking maize and murdered her in cold blood.

The police under Ogbonna Onovo rose to the challenge but that did not salvage the situation as these faceless elements in the society maintained a grip on their devilish means of livelihood. Normally, investigations into the genesis of all the kidnap cases recorded have proven that either relations, friends or workers to the victims were brains behind their ordeal.

These things will not show in the x-ray but when the surgeon looks at the x-ray, he knows exactly what has happened. So, if you have a fracture that has ruptured a blood vessel and you go to the native bone setter and you are manipulating the patient, he may lose the limb. If you had gone to the hospital and the doctor sees it, he will immediately know that his patient will require an artery repair.

THE police in Agbarho, Ughelli North Local Government Area, Delta State, Wednesday night, killed one of the suspected armed robbers, laying siege on the Ughelli/Warri Road.

I think President Goodluck Jonathan should look into this and he should try to salvage what is left of our banking sector and put in proper reforms, not this charade of reform that we are seeing.

As the debate on zoning and rotation of public offices rages in the political arena, the fate of former Peoples
Democratic Party, PDP, Deputy National Chairman, Chief Olabode George, who was jailed alongside five other former members of the Nigerian Ports Authority, NPA, Board of Directors, which he once led, continues to generate controversy over the manner in which they were prosecuted and convicted by a Lagos High Court.

He is also saying that Ucha ought to vacate his seat w2ith immediate effect, having lost the case to him.
He said that he though agreed that the case was a pre-election matter to which his opponent, by right, should have the right of appeal to the Supreme Court, Dr Onwe said that his case, unfortunately, had the trappings of a post election matter.

The recent kidnapping of some journalists in Abia State has once again thrown the issue of abductions in the country to the front burner.