PRELATE of Methodist Church Nigeria, Archbishop Sunday Ola Makinde, is a household name even before he mounted the saddle at the Wesley House, Marina, Lagos after the expiration of the tenure of Archbishop Sunday Mbang. Last Thursday, he played host to some journalists in his office where he bared his mind on the state of the nation, admonishing that the nation must tread softly and tackle the festering menace of Boko Haram with dispatch.

Former Commonwealth Secretary-General, Chief Emeka Anyaoku, says a national conference to address Nigeria’s structural problems may be the best way to tackle the Boko Haram challenge.

This is an exclusive report on the hunt for members of the now dreaded Ahlan Sunnah Lid Da’waati wal Jihad Yaanaa (brothers), popularly known as the Boko Haram sect and how security agencies are going about their job. The report also reveals the engagement between former Governor of Borno State, Senator Ali Modu Sheriff, and the Directorate of State Security, SSS, and the meeting between the former and President Goodluck Jonathan, last week. It is revealing and explosive.

After over five weeks since he was sworn-in as President and Commander-in-Chief, President Goodluck Jonathan finally constitutes the Executive Council of the Federation, EXCOF, signaling the commencement of real governance. The question is, will this team deliver for Jonathan and Nigerians?

THE power and efficacy of a popular engagement by a people in strategic self-development, though quite challenging and requiring enormous resources and sacrifice, is not as dependent on material capital as we Africans have constantly been told and have come to believe.

IT is difficult, indeed impossible, to reflect on 50 years of governance and leadership in Africa without immediately recalling the dream and legacy of Mwalimu Julius Nyerere whose quintessential contribution to governance in Africa was his eminent personification of the humility of leadership.

‘THE police will continue to do 24 hours surveillance and mop-up operations on the activities of the sect across the zone,” he said. The AIG noted that about 210 weapons were recovered from the sect with 200 detonates, two corrusters, two bags of lethal gun powders, seven bags of poltesum, one basin of nitrate used for making explosives and an AK-47.

MAY 28, 2005 – A bomb blast occurs at the residence of the Ikono Head of Council of the area, in Ikono Akwa Ibom State.

AN inter-state kidnap syndicate, allegedly comprising the son of a royal father, a native doctor, businessmen and political thugs, which specialized in kidnapping the rich and ripping off dollars and Naira from them, has been uncovered by security agents in Delta State.

WITH the string of successes in recent time by the police in Delta State, including the arrest of seven kidnap kingpins, the state commissioner of police, Alhaji Mamman Tsafe, strongly believes that the end of kidnappers in the state would come sooner than later.