Reprieve is still far from the families of victims of Ezza, Ezillo commu- nal strife where so many have lost their lives. Since May 10, 2008 when the crisis started, the number of casualties is said to have risen to over 400 and this number keeps rising . Police men and other innocent travelers are daily exposed to danger along the Enugu-Abakaliki express road.

HONOURABLE Justice Okon Efreti Abang of the Federal High Court sitting in Lagos, Tuesday, could not hide his emotions and disdain for violators of fundamental human rights when he tongue lashed the Police and condemned the alleged involvement of officials of the Lagos state government for the unlawful arrest, detention and subsequent arraignment at an Ikeja magistrate of Oba Gbolahan Akanbi Timson last year.

APART from the criminal implication, tell me, what could be more undignifying for a woman to ingest hard drug for whatever reason, knowing full well the health implication?” queried the Murtala Mohammed International Airport Commander of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) Alhaji Hamza Umar.

Acting President, Goodluck Jonathan yesterday said the issue of whether he will run for presidency come 2011, is not on his agenda for now. Although he tried to trivialize the issue, he did not categorically deny pressures from several quarters, that he continued since he is perceived as the most credible of all those angling to be President for now.

FOR impersonating Nigeria’s former military head of state, General Ibrahim Badamosi Bababginda (Rtd) and the immediate past Inspector-General of Police Mike Okiro, a 38-year- old suspected fraudstar who identified himself as Chief Sam Nwankwo is presently telling operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, (EFCC) all his tricks in defrauding an Abidjan based businessman simply identified as Mr. Collins of a whopping $243.000 (about N36.09m)

‘We no go gree ooh, we no go gree’ LASTMA must go, we no go gree”. This was the resounding chant that was heard at almost all major bus-stops in Lagos Monday as commercial bus operators protested against their victimisation some government officials. Commuters who were caught unawares by the development found themselves stranded at various bus-stops as the protest later took a violent turn with buses being forced off the roads. It took the spirited intervention of the Police to calm the situation.

Some parliamentarians have reason to question the motive behind the recent visits of some religious leaders to recuperating President Umaru Yar’Adua. At an impromptu gathering last week at the Lawanson Bus-stop in Lagos, most of them dismissed the separate visits of Muslim clerics and Christian leaders, supposedly on the invitation of some aides of the ailing President, as nothing but a carefully contrived political move to hoodwink the populace that the President is presently on the speed lane of recovery.

Even though it is no longer news that some men, known as homosexuals or gays, date fellow men, such perverted sexual practice has always been carried out in secret because of the public condemnation it attracts. But this was not the case in Festac town on Easter Monday as two males were caught right in the act inside a Mercedes Benz 230 car.

Oluseye Ogunlewe’s bluntness may come with a tinge of contradiction in what he professes. When you ask a man about his tenure as minister of works and member of the Executive Council of the Federation, EXCOF, in the Olusegun Obasanjo government and he tells you that there is no cabinet but a President-in-Council, you begin to wonder what manner of EXCOF was in place.

Oluseye Ogunlewe’s bluntness may come with a tinge of contradiction in what he professes. When you ask a man about his tenure as minister of works and member of the Executive Council of the Federation, EXCOF, in the Olusegun Obasanjo government and he tells you that there is no cabinet but a President-in-Council, you begin to wonder what manner of EXCOF was in place.

Professor Martin Anthony Aghaji is currently the President of Nigeria Cardiac Society. He studied in England where he distinguished himself by acquiring the Fellowships of the Royal Colleges of Surgeons of England, Glasgow and Edinburgh by examination. He also won the Master of Science Degree in Nuclear Medicine from Kings College Hospital of the University of London in 1983 after undergoing the requisite training. He was a substantive Registrar in the professorial unit of Adult Cardiothoracic Surgery at Kings College Hospital Demark Hill London. He proceeded hence to the USA where he acquired a Fellowship in Congenital Heart Surgery, from the Milwaukee Children’s Hospital, of University of Wisconsin USA.
He specialized in Adult and Pediatric Heart Surgery, Thoracic Surgery, Liver Surgery, Kidney Transplantation and Nuclear Medicine.

PROTEST, whether peaceful or violent is not new to residents of Ajegunle, an average size community in Ajeromi\Ifelodun LGA in Lagos state. Ironically dubbed the Jungle City,(perhaps because of the people’s lifestyle) Ajegunle has been adjudged one of the most peaceful communities in Lagos State with nearly every resident having at least, basic knowledge of the other.

For Alhaja Risikat Lawal, wife of the late Alhaji Saliu Lawal,54, Public Relations Officer of National Open University [NOUN] , this year’s April Fool’s Day was her day of sorrow. That day, her husband, a media practitioner for 20 years from Share in Ifelodun LGA, Kwara, who had been plying the Lagos/Ilorin route for his duties, had called that he would come to Ilorin that day.

PERHAPS apart from divine intervention, benevolence and generosity could best be said to have saved the life of a five year-old baby boy from being kidnapped for a ransom by those who had worked, lived with, and benefitted immensely from his father. At the stalling revelation of the heinous plan, father of the victim, Mr. Mike Nwaforchukwu could not believe his ears as he listened to his ex- staff’s confession.

IN recent times, calls for Nigeria to divide along ethnic and regional lines were rife brought about by alleged marginalisation in one form or the other by different ethnic groups. United States Intelligence even said that if care is not taken, Nigeria, as we know it today, may stop to exist.