For journalists, especially those of the Nigerian Television Authority (NTA) Akure, February 1, 2014 will, for a long time to come, remain a sad day. That was the day a young promising reporter, Alex Akinwale, 35, his wife, Kehinde Rebecca, daughter, Pauline, 2, and maid were killed in an auto crash.

Closed-Circuit Television, CCTV, is the use of video cameras to transmit a signal to a specific place, limited set of monitors. It differs from broadcast television in that the signal is not openly transmitted, though it may employ point to point wireless links. CCTV is often used for surveillance in areas that may need monitoring such as banks, homes, casinos, airports, military installations and convenience stores.

It was an impressive day at the June 12 Cultural Centre, Kuto, Abeokuta on January 25 as over 2,000 aged people from the 20 local government areas of Ogun State took turns to offer prayers to the first family in the state as part of the activities to commemorate the 56th birthday of Governor Ibikunle Amosun.

Following a painstaking and diligent investigation, detectives from the Federal Special Anti-Robbery Squad (FSARS) of the Nigeria Police have solved the riddle surrounding the disappearance of Mr. Sylvester Emefiele, a staffer of the Transformation Office of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC).

Where she was kept would stir emotion even in a stone hearted being. What came to the mind of many was why any parent would banish their own child to such a despicable solitary confinement.
The grubby dungeon, located in front of her family apartment, was built with carton board and roofing sheets ostensibly to ward off the elements and gave it the semblance of a dwelling place.
The less than four feet high structure could be mistaken for cage for dog.

Two suspects were stoned to death in Sabo, Yaba area of Lagos State after being beaten by youths for allegedly robbing a resident. The suspects allegedly attacked a 79-year-old man, Pa Thomas Emmanuel, in his McNeil Road apartment around 3.30am on Monday.

While kidnapping and armed robbery seem to have reduced in Edo State suspected child defilers are on the increase in the state. As a matter of fact, out of 60 suspected criminals paraded on Tuesday by the state police commissioner, Folunso Adebanjo, 16 were suspected child defilers.

Undercover police operatives with Cross River State Police Command nipped in the bud the plan by heavily armed militants to strike in Calabar, the state capital, during the annual Carnival Festival. The state police commissioner, Mr Kola Sodipo, said two of the suspected militants, Daniel Sunday, 25, and Prophet Friday, 19, were arrested on December 24, 2013 at Ikang, Bakassi with 800 live ammunition, 7.62mm and 634v rounds of general purpose machine gun , GPMG, 56 mm and 632 live assault rifle ammunition.

THE alleged shooting of Senator Magnus Abe by the police last Sunday at the Arts and Science College, Rumuola Road, in Obio Akpor local government area of Rivers State is the cause of division in Ogoniland with one group saying the senator lied over the incident while another group said the alleged attack was a clear case of a move to kill another Ogoni son after the judicial murder of Ken Saro-wiwa, a foremost environmentalist and former leader of the Movement for the Survival of Ogoni People (MOSOP), by the Abacha administration.

Marina Road in the historical town of Badagry on January 1, 2014 was a beehive to tourists and fun seekers who thronged slave cells to feed their eyes with slave relics and hear stories of how trans-Atlantic slave trade occurred in the 17th century.

If there is any issue that has attracted both national and international discourse these past years in this country, it is the petroleum sector and it has to be because succeeding government in the country has used it as a benchmark for our national development and a means of primitive accumulation of wealth. Since over 80% of corruption in the country occur in that that sector, oil production and management has and will continue to keep the train of corruption going.

The Itsekiri National Youth Council, INYC, is the umbrella body of Itsekiri youths in Nigeria and is presently led by Hon David Tonwe. While it has been one of the frontline organizations safeguarding Itsekiri interests in the public sphere, many Itsekiris are of the opinion that, as the time for a change of baton in the leadership of the body draws near, the Itsekiri nation would do well to shop for qualified and competent hands to steer the council into the future. It is within this context that Hon Michael Ejueyitsi Tidi is being considered by major stakeholders as a prime candidate for the presidency of the body.

Still basking in the euphoria of accolades that greeted his government’s decision to construct modern, state-of-the-art Caring Heart Mega Schools across the state, Governor Olusegun Mimiko has blazed another trail with the introduction of free shuttle bus scheme for primary and secondary school students.

Days after residents of Jos rejoiced over peaceful Christmas and New Year celebrations which they saw as signaling a gradual return of peace to Plateau State, gunmen attacked a village throwing the state into mourning.
By Taye Obateru and Marie-Therese Nanlong

The convoy actually came to a halt in the sunny afternoon despite the fuming blast of the siren, a development that prompted the deputy governor’s ADC, Inspector Gaya Mark, to jump out of one of the vehicles to remove a motorcyclist turning in the middle of the road to pick a passenger oblivious of the convoy. Dramatically, as he dragged the Okada rider off the road, he slumped. And before he could be rushed to the Civil Service Clinic, at the end of the road, Gaya had given up the ghost. The ADC was believed to have died of cardiac arrest.