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...As Embassy raises alert
• Two Kingpins under arrest
AS Nigerians are still trying to put behind the shame of the  rows which  engulfed some profile politicians in the country, who not too long ago got bad press for parading fake certificates, it appears  the scam  ring may have been smashed. The ring was recently exposed after a visa applicant with such fake documents was apprehended at the embassy which raised scam alert.

…For acts of indiscipline
WHEN the Federal Government recently released the whooping sum of N78billion for the reform of Nigeria Police, some citizens considered it a chicken feed given the enormous challenges to tackle. But some other groups on the other hand saw the project as a mere gamble that was not going to impact positively on the Force and launder its  image tainted over the years by some bad eggs within, ahead of the 2011 general elections. But Inspector General of Police, Ogbonnaya Onovo assured that the venture is necessary for the promotion of  the ethos of professionalism in the force and also ensuring  credible elections rid of  ballot boxes  snatching  and such irregularities come next year.

…Over Love SMS
• Dumps Body At Her Residence
WHEN the analogue telephone was the only means for  chatting with loved ones, just  a few rich Nigerians could afford that  luxury of life. But in 2004 the former President Olusegun Obasanjo administration  brought better life in  terms of  communications to the door-posts of majority Nigerians, through the introduction of GSM cell-phones in the country. However, the communication tool meant to bring joy to the users,  sadly is fast turning into a  source of chaos , weapon of destruction and anguish.  The latest ugly case on hand which  indeed smacks of  extreme obsession and insanity  was recently displayed  by 46-year-old, Emmanuel Adua,  a temperamental man who allegedly killed his mistress over love text messages he found in her cell-phone. The father of  five is currently  cooling of in police custody.

•Same Day Hubby Died
•Seizes  Property Documents
•Woman Cries For Justice
IT is quite disturbing and baffling that despite fast spreading spiritual knowledge of God and battery of religious men and women who flock to the churches and mosques daily, some people are still hooked onto the mundane wicked and evil widowhood practices, as were in the days of yore, in certain part of Nigeria.

A case just playing out in Nnewi, Anambra State, tends to buttress the sorry tales of widowhood in 21st Century Nigeria. National Daily Weekend  gathered that a family  has just  sacked  a widow  and her  three  kids from the properties owned by their  late breadwinner, and disposes them of documents of the  property barely  a few hours after passed on. The late man died in a plane crash   on his way to India for business.
This  wicked action has caused a war of attrition and is generating a serious cultural conflict in the family house of Onwubualili and the people of Ichi, in Nnewi, Anambra State south-East, Nigeria, an impeccable  source told National Daily Weekend.

• Directors protest Police harassment 
• Court restrains IG, Lagos CP, SFU
MAYBE it is the turn of Nigerian-born Forbes acclaimed billionaire, Mr. Femi Otedola to experience some turbulence in life, because one thing is certain: the oil magnate is not having the best of time presently. Investigation has revealed that the once ebullient son of onetime Lagos State Governor, Sir Micheal Otedola is afraid for his life. And that he is suggesting that some yet to be identified people want him dead.
It would be recalled that National Daily exclusively reported how Otedola physically took over the premises of African Petroleum Plc (AP), the company in which he serves as the Chairman, on July 5, 2010 , a day scheduled for a meeting of its Board of Directors.

…Over Presidential ambition
• May settle for Senate
CHAIRMAN of the Governors' Forum, Bukola Saraki has been commanding a lot of power and authority on issues affecting governance in the country for the past seven years, or thereabout.
For instance, his Agricultural Development programme for Kwara State is being regarded as second to none in the country, an issue that has endeared him to the citizenry.

• Experts raise danger alert    
• FG, Lagos to sue owners
LIKE the time bomb, the toxic calamity of health and environment hazards posed by the  vessel wrecks littering the shores of Nigeria would explode any moment, National Daily intelligence can reveal.  Though the Nairobi Convention rests the onus of removing such wrecks on the ship owner, the obligation has been neglected, forcing the government to divert part of  the already scarce funds in this direction. But there is bad news for the defiant wreck ownerships: the government will soon bring them to book as plans for the legal battle is in advanced stage, impeccable sources disclosed.

•To Avert Suicide Shame In Onitsha •Nigerians, Colleagues Speak
FINALLY, Professor Dubem Agha Okafor, the Kutztown University academic and poet who allegedly penultimate week  launched a homicide mission and shot dead his Jamaica-born wife, Cheryl Okafor  before killing himself in Pennsylvania, United States (U.S.) has been buried amidst controversies. National Daily Weekend sources revealed that the professor was buried on Monday in a public cemetery in Pennsylvania, temporarily ending many days of heated wrangling in his native Onitsha, Anambra State, where his kinsmen are said to have been confounded by his dastardly act, a factor that also led to some of them referring to him as a “prodigal professor.”