Ben Lawrence is a journalism veteran who has created a niche for himself in the profession. He was Editor, Evening Times, Acting Editor and Managing Editor of the Daily Times before quitting in 1987 to work as the spokesman of the Volks Wagen Company.

DISTURBED by the increasing cases of extra- judicial killings by policemen across the country, the Inspector-General of Police, Mr. Ogbonna Onovo has ordered discreet investigations into the activities of officers involved in such dastardly act with a view to nipping in the bud, such senseless killing of Nigerians suspected to have committed crimes without trial.

Authorities of the Nigerian Police Force, Federal Capital Territory Command, Abuja are battling to resolve a pattern of crime at petrol stations along the airport road that appear to indicate that armed robbers, in collusion with policemen deployed to protect petrol stations, have found a perfect way of making money without jeopardizing the job of their police collaborators.

In what might appear as a curious coincidence, the Lagos State Traffic Management Authority (LASTMA) has recently been featuring frequently in the news for the wrong reasons. At least for reasons other than that which informed it being set up by the Lagos State government. For instance a couple of weeks back two of its officials attached to the Iyana Ejigbo unit were involved in separate incidents that claimed the lives of a motorist and a motorcyclist.

It is no longer news that Nigeria, a country with an estimated population of 150million people, is one of the world’s leading violators of human rights. If care is not taken, the country will become the “axis of man’s inhumanity to man” on the African continent, and win a “Mo Ibrahim Award” to that effect.