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March 02, 2014

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Curbing street gang menace in Lagos

AS unemployment bites harder, Lagos State is increasingly facing gang-related killings and youth crime. In a now too familiar pattern, gunmen struck at Amodu Street in Mushin, killing an eight-month pregnant woman, Musili Bello, and her 12-year-old daughter, Suliat Olowu, in late January. While the mother was shot in the stomach and in the face, the hoodlums put bullets through Suliat’s head in a 20-minute operation. On February 3, a street gang stabbed a 300-level undergraduate, Opeyemi Odusanya, 17, to death in her house for rejecting their sexual advances. And, as usual, the state Police Commissioner, Umaru Manko, promised to give the criminals a hell of a time if they don’t “have a rethink.” But, to make the streets safe, the police chief should clamp down on criminals, not preach to them.

Drop in PCs demand

Technology experts in Nigeria and other countries of the world have continued to express concern over the persistent drop in the demand for personal computers. They have, however, noted that developing markets, including Nigeria and

probes contract executed in B’Haram enclave

Nigeria Senate The Senate Committee on the Environment and Ecology, on Monday, queried the Federal Ministry of Environment for paying N21m to a contractor who claimed that his firm was currently executing a construction project in the Bama community of Borno State. The committee has therefore directed the leadership of the ministry to institute a probe into the issue and forward their findings to the committee before the 2014 budget they submitted could be approved. Permanent Secretary in the ministry, Mr. Taiye Haruna, had listed

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