When the wife of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, governor, Mrs Margaret Emefiele, and four other women alongside her driver were kidnapped on September 29 2016 along the Benin-Agbor Expressway, operatives of the Special Intelligence Response Team, IRT, led by Assistant Commissioner of Police, ACP, Abba Kyari, immediately swung into action. They were released few days later after a ransom demanded by the abductors was reportedly paid. The police however succeeded in arresting all the members of the gang where it was discovered that two serving soldiers were involved in the kidnap.

Another suspect, 29-year-old Musa Maidababara, a native of Gombe State, was a   graduate of Quantity Survey, Nigeria Army   Institute of Technology and Environmental Studies, Benue State. He was enlisted into the Nigeria Army in    2010 , and was   serving at   the Nigeria Army 3rd  Division , Jos, Plateau State.   In his own confession, he said,    “the journey to my arrest and subsequent dismissal   began on   October 1, 2016, when Ernest, my friend from secondary school days invited me to his place in Benin, Edo State to come and celebrate the independence day with him.   I called one of my friends, Edwin,   who also attended the same Nigeria Army   Institute of Technology and Environmental Studies with me but was serving in Maiduguri, to join me . When we met Ernest, he told us that one of his friends gave him a huge amount of money and wanted Ernest to escort him and his friend out of the bush. 

Safe for the 2016 Ukpabi/Nimbo massacre, Enugu state had been relatively safe.    This was in spite of pockets of skirmishes that were recorded which the police have been able to tackle decisively.    The state police boss, Dan-Mallam Mohammed in an interview with Saturday Vanguard spoke of efforts made so far to tackle security challenges in the state.  

THE lawmaker representing Imo West Senatorial District in the Senate, Senate Hope Uzodinma in this exclusive chat with  Saturday Vanguard  speaks on his activities in the Senate, the re-engineering process in the Peoples Democratic Party and   the need for political leadership among the Igbo   among others

The Founder of Aboutthatcurvylife, ATCL, an initiative that started out as a body positive advocacy movement on instagram for plus size people, Latasha Ngwube’s beauty and personal sense of style could make even the skinniest woman on earth wish for a plus size body.