THERE are indications that trouble is currently brewing at the headquarters of the Nigeria Police Force Micro Finance Bank, Obalende, Lagos, following the discovery of alleged irregularities in the administrative running of the bank by some directors. Information made available to Crime Alert revealed that there were alleged gross violations of the Central Bank of Nigeria Code of Corporate Governance by some of the directors.

AS far as residents of Ejigbo, Ikotun and other communities in old Alimosho Local Government Area of Lagos State are concerned, the government headed by Babatunde Fashola has been most unfair to them with respect to the provision of infrastructural facilities, especially roads.

Barely a year after the Lagos State Government prohibited the operations of commercial motorcycles on 475 roads and bridges in the state, it has also outlawed the operations of commercial tricycles popularly called Keke Marwa on major roads across the state.

Enugu State Police boss, Abubakar Adamu Mohammed, has vowed to cleanse the state of all criminal elements with a clarion call to the people of the state to be law- abiding and give information without let or hindrance. Adamu Abubakar who spoke when a group called the National Institute for Cultural Orientation paid a courtesy call in his office stated that he was in the state with specific directives from the Inspector-General of Police, Muhamed Abubakar to rid the state of all sorts of crime and ensure that the good people of the state sleep with both eyes closed. He thanked the group for the visit and assured them that the command is ready to associate itself with their mission and vision adding that they should be law abiding and endeavour to strenghten their partnership with the police by giving vital information so that the society can be sanitized.

Speaking earlier during the visit, the Chairman of the group, Nwajagu Nnaemeka said there was need for huge emphasis to be laid on cultural re- orientation since culture involves the total way of life of the people. He further pointed out that some of the vices in our society today like kidnapping, assassination, child stealing and armed robbery amongst others, are not part of our culture but culture acquired from another people through motion pictures and films and suggested that through cultural re- orientation, we shall be able to go back to our culture which will discourage the practice of those cultures that Nigerians are not known for. He also stressed that the group was at the command to solicit for partnership with the command in order to re orientate our people for the right values,norms and culture which Nigerians are known for. The group was received by the commissioner of police, his Deputy , Abdullahi I. Chafe and the State Police Public Relations officer, Ebere Amaraizu.

WAllahi, if God does not punish Nigeria severely, then He will have to apologise to Sodom and Gomorrah afterall, their own was just sodomy. There’s so much evil in the land; it’s unbelievable,” said Gani this Monday morning in the CMS-bound commuter vehicle.

An Ojo Magistrate’s Court in Lagos, has sentenced a 20-year- old unemployed youth, Eze Chukwudi, to 12 months imprisonment at the Ikoyi Prison, over burglary and N43, 400 theft. The Magistrate, Mr Taslimi Shomade, sentenced the convict, who pleaded guilty to a two-count charge of burglary and theft, with an option of N43, 000 fine.

…As Lagos, NRC strategise over menace
IT is a general knowledge that some train passengers from various Lagos terminus through Ikeja, particularly, hang on train cabins to avoid payment of fares. Few unlucky ones had lost their lives in the process while the lucky ones either sustain injuries or got maimed.

Chief Edwin Kiagbodo Clark has great credentials: a lawyer, an administrator, Ijaw national leader, a nationalist, a freedom fighter and leader, South South Peoples Assembly. He was Commissioner for Education, Mid-Western Region, 1968-71; Commissioner for Finance and Establishment, Bendel State, 1972-75; Federal Commissioner for Information, 1975; and senator, 1979-83. In this interview, the Kiagbodo born elder statesman, who turned 86 recently, bares his mind on Nigeria then and now. Excerpts:

Is it not amazing and amusing that 20years after the annulment of the June 12, 1993, presidential election, leaders of Nigeria’s Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, last week, engineered the annulment of the chairmanship election of the Nigeria Governors’ Forum, NGF? In 1993, Bashorun MKO Abiola of the Social Democratic Party, SDP, defeated Bashir Tofa of the National Republican Convention, NRC, but the announcement of the results was ordered suspended by an Abuja High Court (which the law had barred from entertaining the suit). This is Nigeria where anything can and, thus, happen!

The custom allowing the seizure of deceased husbands properties and subjecting their widows to inhuman practices such as shaving of the head and making them drink the water used to bath their husbands, among others, have now become illegal in Akwa Ibom State.