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IGP wants NSCDC, FRSC merged with police

The Inspector General of Police, Mr Kayode Egbetokun, has advised the Federal Government to merge the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) and the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) with the police for effectiveness. Egbetokun said this at the…

Lances at the hedges of light

By Samuel A. Betiku With Nigeria’s economy and poverty levels worsening, abductions have become an almost daily occurrence in recent years — Reuters Until now, you savoured the world in packets of myth, moon- lit frolic and a cot where…

The Knowledge

By Kei Vough Korede In a dream, two bars of soap Were handed to me— One containing melancholy. The other, mirth. A voice instructed me to give The former to my father and keep The latter for myself. I broke…

I die like waves

By Daniel Orisaeke On the shoreline, I watch the sun—a halved-cut lemon dip into the sea, language written in the dance of waves there is a pull and I succumb. The man beside me murmurs a few words about dying.…

Hoping for the greens we left behind

By Alobu Emmanuel —after Saheed Sunday The day I realised the earth’s misery was when my keyboard’s auto-correct called me a poor earth instead of a poet. the earth is beautiful; so beautiful that mother nature should slice our hands…