OF all the six states in the South-West, only Lagos State has fully implemented the Contributory Pension Scheme, CPS while Oyo and Ondo states are yet to commence at all.

Adebola Omowale,the 40-year-old man that was allegedly stabbed to death, last weekend, by some military officers in a viewing centre around Lekki beach area in Lagos state could have survived if he had received urgent medical attention after the incident. In fact, it was revealed that the injured man walked to a nearby hospital, clutching his intestines in his hands only to be told by nurses that he would not be treated unless he produced a police report. Crime Alert learnt that after several pleas for him to receive, at least, first aid treatment pending when sympathizers who came to the hospital with him will bring the report, the badly injured man reclined to fate and laid on a pavement helplessly, waiting for succour.

COntroversy has begun to trail the death of the Chief Executive Officer of Hasstrup Line, and the now rested Space World Airline, Captain Israel Ademola Hasstrup, 79, who died in the United Kingdom last year under what the bereaved family described as ‘questionable manner.’

It was a sorry sight to behold as five white caskets containing the lifeless bodies of Madam Grace Nwosu and her daughters were brought into the sleepy rural community of Egbelu Nguru, Ngor Okpalaeke local council area of Imo State for burial.

It was as if commuters in the CMS-bound commuter bus this Tuesday morning, unanimously decided to create their own happiness despite the heart-rending news items bombarding them from all directions in the past couple of weeks as they laughed all the way to the final bus-stop.

Two suspected leaders of a notorious gang that specializes in sending messages to innocent members of the public with threats to kidnap them if they failed to pay ransome have been arrested by the Police in Enugu State.

SECRET meeting over Kelvin: Few months before Kelvin Oniarah, the kidnap kingpin that terrorized Delta State and other states in the South-South and South-East regions was rounded up, September 25, by a joint team of Department of State Services, DSS and Nigerian Army, Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan, who had been providing logistics for the manhunt for kidnappers in the state, summoned the leaders of Kokori community, the country home of the gangster, to a meeting in Warri.

Chief Chris Uche, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, SAN,with an eye on constitutional, political and electoral cases, in this interview, x-rays the forces that have given Nigeria high and low points at 53 and goes further to admonish President Goodluck Jonathan on what lies ahead of him and Nigeria.

Umuahia, Abia State capital, last week, played host to the 9th biennial conference of the Nigerian Army Finance Corps. The conference presented Sunday Vanguard an opportunity to rub minds with Governor Theodore Ahamefule Orji on the crisis rocking his party, the PDP, the challenge posed by kidnapping to security in his state, among other issues. He was blunt on President Goodluck Jonathan controversial bid to run for second term in 2015.

At the Digital Dialogue in Dubai penultimate week, experts in digital broadcast came together to deliberate on the June 17, 2015, digital migration deadline set by the International.