The Commissioner of Police, Oyo State, Baba Adisa Bolanta last week celebrated what was tagged, ‘harvest of arrests of criminals’ in the State when he paraded no fewer than 36 suspected criminals arrested at different locations. During the arrests, the command also recovered assorted guns, arms and ammunitions.

ALL that is not given is lost” is the guiding principle that seems to propel Sunshine For The Less- Privileged Foundation, a non-governmental organisation, NGO, that has taken it upon itself to cater, as much as it can, for the needy in Nigeria.

“THE people that did this are just simply animals; they’re not human beings at all,” angrily exclaimed a parliamentarian, Chuks Ojukwu at a bus-stop gathering in Lagos. He was reacting to the gory pictures of the women and children who were murdered in their sleep in Jos by some fanatical, blood-thirsty Fulani herdsmen.

He is a medical doctor but is more well known as a rambunctious politician. Massive looking Doyin Okupe could be a stormy petrel. You may not be sure of his weight but during the still-born Third Republic, when Okupe first served as Director of Publicity for the National Republican Convention, NRC, and later Director of Field Communications for the Bashir Tofa Presidential Campaign Organisation, he pulled some weight.

Dr Timothy Ayam is the National Support Co-ordinator of the Leprosy Mission in Nigeria, an NGO that was established as far back as 1920, to provide adequate medical treatment to people affected by leprosy.