‘Dance of Shame’: How Nigerians turn suspected thieves into social media content
A growing social media trend in Nigeria has seen people accused of theft being made to dance after they are apprehended, with videos of the incidents attracting widespread attention online.
NYSC, a new DG and the challenges of 2014
For the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), 2013 could best be described as a redemptive year from the battered image sustained from the previous year (2012).
Bode George’s Prison Memoirs: First week in jail was tough because I was viciously angry!
“Nigeria has invested so much in me than for me to misbehave or mess up with the nation’s image. I will forever be grateful to Nigeria for the kind of military discipline that I have,” said the retired commodore.
“I need to talk about the whole experience just for generations coming behind to have the true picture of what actually happened. And I am saying it now so that it should never happen to anybody again. People who have the opportunity to be in positions of power should never use it to persecute. These are wicked people, who thought that they could do what they did to us and get away with it.”
How trigger-happy cop slept in a bush in Edo while evading arrest
Tragedy struck last Saturday along the Ikpoba Hill river, along the Benin Agbor road when a police officer identified as Corporal Valentine Ofuamaka, attached to the Mopol 5, Benin City with force number 364780, shot dead a 35 year old Odion Egbon, a truck driver.
R-O-B-B-E-R-Y A-T-T-A-C-K-S: Residents of Calabar resort to jungle justice
Since the beginning of 2014, criminals have been on the onslaught in Cross River State especially in Calabar, the state capital,attacking and dispossessing residents of money and valuables.
Kerosine racket: NNPC’s way of turning relief into nightmare
Nigeria is one of the world’s largest producers of crude oil which supposes that kerosene, a by-product, predominantly used by millions of our people as the cheapest energy for domestic cooking, suddenly became a scarce commodity as the price went beyond the reach of most ordinary citizens.
Some politicians who left PDP are coming back – Gov Shema
Governor Ibrahim Shehu Shema of Katsina State is a lawyer, Administrator, a former Deputy National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP and a member of PDP National Executive Committee, NEC. In this interview with select Journalists, Shema bared his mind on his developmental agenda in his state, completion of projects started by his predecessor, late President Umaru YarAdua, 2015 Presidential bid of President Goodluck Jonathan, crisis in PDP, in Rivers State, the way forward, and other salient issues. there.
Social Media Week is a culture
Obi Asika is a media personality and an entrepreneur. In this interview, he talks about the forthcoming Social Media Week and other issues.
Nigerians lament as kerosene price soars
Despite claims by the Federal Government that the price of kerosene has been subsidized, the masses cannot get the product at the subsidised price. Saturday Vanguard sought the views of Nigerians, as they bare their minds on the issue.
Male folks constitute higher traffic offenders in Lagos State – LASDRI boss
Mr. Ayodeji Peters Oyedokun, is the Chief Executive Officer CEO, LASDRI, Olasunkanmi Akoni, recently visited Oshodi centre and had a chat with him with focus on the update of the on-going re-certification exercise of all commercial vehicle drivers and conductors operating in the state as well as other transport related issues in the state.
How Police Commander fights crime with catapult in Enugu
The era of Mohammed Abubakar as Inspector-General of Police, seem to be innovating positive ideas and new crime fighting methods in the country.On daily bases, officers and men of the force who have embraced the transformation agenda of their boss in Abuja, engage themselves in fierce competition to out do each other in achieving commendable results.
