Driver, are you having diarrhoea of the mouth? Since we left Oshodi over 30 minutes ago, you have been talking non-stop. Please concentrate on your driving,” said Mike who was visibly irritated by the constant chattering by the driver..

Governor Babatunde Raji Fashola (SAN) of Lagos State has advocated for state policing arguing that its existence will tremendously held nib the commission of crimes in the bud. The governor spoke in his Alausa office, Ikeja while receiving the four kidnapped and released Journalists and their driver who were on their way back to Lagos after an official assignment in Uyo, the Ikwa-Ibom state capital. He said there was dire need to quickly restructure what he referred to as” the faulty federal structure in Nigeria” identifying state police as one of the faulty federal structures.

Senator Ameh Ebute may not command the feisty, bullish mannerism of a radical but his thoughts are! Leading a new coalition – National Movement for Equality and Change – Ebute, who replaced Iyorchia Ayu as Senate President at the height of the annulment of the June 12 Presidential elections won by MKO Abiola, insists that what his group is doing now is not about opportunism. “What informed this movement is the fact that Nigeria has existed for 50years and we also discovered going through history, that a particular area of the country had dominated governance and the political leadership of the country.

IGARA, a town in Akoko Edo Local Government Area of Edo state, was thrown into mourning penultimate week after a middle-aged man, identified as Topa Williams allegedly grabbed a young girl identified as Ozavize Ogunmah who was hawking maize and murdered her in cold blood.

The police under Ogbonna Onovo rose to the challenge but that did not salvage the situation as these faceless elements in the society maintained a grip on their devilish means of livelihood. Normally, investigations into the genesis of all the kidnap cases recorded have proven that either relations, friends or workers to the victims were brains behind their ordeal.