The gun in question does not belong to either of us. It was given to us by the landlord association that employed us and the association has risen to our defense. It had also on several occasions reported cases of the attacks at the Ibafo division .

WHAT would have resulted in a bloody clash between some policemen attached to the Lagos state police command and some army personnel was Tuesday night averted following alleged mounting of illegal check points along the Seme\Badagry road by some uniformed personnel in Badagry and OPS MESAH.

THE use of powerful explosives such as dynamite in settling political scores first reared its head in Bayelsa in 2001 when the state assembly complex was blown up by unknown persons in the wake of the power tussle between the then speaker and now senator and the erstwhile governor of the state.

In 1948, when the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the first international human rights instrument to proclaim that “everyone has the right to life”, only 7 countries had abolished the death penalty. The Declaration proclaims a “right to life” in an absolute fashion, any limitations being only implicit.

On February 25 2010, the then Minister of Tourism, Culture and National Orientation, Senator Bello Jibrin Gada issued a letter suspending from office, the Board of Governors and the General Manager of the National Theatre, Alhaji Kabir Yusuf over allegation of serious in-fighting going on among the Management team which has led to poor service delivery and dwindling revenue generation at the National Theatre. An Administrative Panel of Enquiry was therefore set up to probe the management crises.