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.