The Kirikiri Medium Prison, Lagos, was a beehive of activities Wednesday, as inmates, majority of whom were awaiting trial forgot all the worries associated with their confinement and concentrated rather on the historic event of the day.

Dr, Orji Uzor Kalu, former governor of Abia State, is a politician and business mogul whose interests cut across national boundaries. In this no-holds-barred interview, he bares his mind on his plans for 2015, Njiko Igbo and the plight of Igbos in the polity for the past 53 years.

A trader and an illegal money transfer agent believed to have links with the gang of kidnappers who abducted the Ejigbo Local Council Development Area, LCDA, Chairman, Kehinde Bamigbetan, as well as Federal High Court Judge, have been arrested by operatives of Special Anti-Robbery Squad, SARS, Ikeja, Lagos.

Bashiru Alafe, 42, a vulcaniser, has been running helter skelter for the past six months to save the life of his daughter, Shukurat, 15, an SS1 student of East City College, Ikorodu, who according to medical reports has developed end-stage kidney failure.

The Inspector-General of Police, Muhammed Dahiru Abubakar and the Police Management team, Wednesday, honoured some officers and men of the force who excelled in their respective assignments. Those honoured included; two Commissioners of police, Ogunsakin Tunde Johnson of the Special Fraud Unit(SFU), Lagos; Idris Faruk Umar of the Anti Fraud Section. Two Deputy Commissioners of Police: Chris Okey Ezike of the Federal Special Anti- Robbery Squad, Adeyemi Ogunjemilusi of the Interpol section; CSP Ibrahim Bako of SEB section, ASP Eseile Irioje, Inspector Yusuf Audu of the Federal SARS and Sgt. Joy Oloh of anti-fraud section. One of the recipients, DCP Ezike spoke with Crime Guard. Excerpts:

Whenever the orbitturns and another month of Ramadan approaches, happiness and joy filled the Muslim community. The reason being that it comes with two great gifts which are holiness and witnessing the night better than a thousand nights in which the Qur’an was revealed.

Preparing the family for the new spirit of Ramadan is more of the wife’s duty. Muslim women therefore need to be adequately prepared for the spiritual exercise. As a woman at home, you have to buy all the necessary things for the month before the first of Ramadan. This will enable you to spend less time during the holy month rushing around. It will also help you to be focused on your religious activities and spiritual development.

MR. Augustine Alegeh (SAN) is the Chairman of NBA Database Committee. He was called to the Bar in October 1986 and won the Bola Ajibola Prize For Civil Procedure at the qualifying Examination of his set. He was sworn in as a Notary Public in 1995, and was appointed a Senior Advocate of Nigeria in December 2007.

In what could be described as a near collapse of the nation’s tertiary education sector, the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) is now in the fourth day of its indefinite strike action. The ASUU strike is the newest cart in the bandwagon of industrial actions in the sector; Eight weeks ago, the academic and non-academic staff unions in Nigerian Polytechnics, under the umbrellas of Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics (ASUPS), Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Polytechnics (SSANIPS) and Non-Academic Staff Union (NASU), embarked on a nationwide indefinite strike, over what they termed Federal Government’s insensitivity to their plights.

The Housefly (Musca domestica), is viewed by humans as a pest. Often seen on garbage heaps, pit toilets, sewers, dumps, feeding on faecal matter, discharges from wounds, and moist, decaying matter, they are seen as carriers and transmitters of at least 65 diseases to humans.