‘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.

This report captures the plethora of paradoxes in the emerging debate over the request of state governors that an improved revenue sharing formula and the withdrawal of the subsidy on petroleum products may be conditions precedent before they can obey, as it were, the Minimum Wage Act. Short of condemning their position, the report concludes that all the governors need to do is find creative ways of meeting the challenges of obeying the Act as well as reducing the huge wastes in running their states and, necessarily, their offices.