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ABUJA – SPEAKER of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara yesterday canvassed for the involvement of the National Assembly in the appointment and removal of the Inspector-General of Police, IGP, to ensure operational independence and command integrity.

The police in Lagos have arrested a man who allegedly defrauded some men of various amount of money by dressing like a woman before them. The Lagos State Police Command’s spokesman, DSP Joseph Offor, disclosed the arrest to newsmen on Monday.

A man in Australia was on Tuesday in Sydney charged to Supreme Court for hiring hit men to assassinate his common-law wife, but the assassins reneged, saying they don’t kill women. Douglas Trapnell, the Crown Prosecutor, told the court that Congo-born Balenga Kalala, commissioned the assassination of his partner of 10 years, and mother of his three children, to be carried out while she was in Burundi attending a funeral.

A jihadist leader in restive Mali has denounced a peace deal signed this year and called for further attacks againstFrance, which helps national forces fight extremists, according to a recording authenticated Monday. In the recording released in October, before Friday’s string of deadly attacks in Paris, Ansar Dine leader Iyad Ag Ghaly endorsed the attack on the Charlie Hebdo magazine in the French capital last January. The satirical weekly “got what it deserved”, he said.

The Abia Police Command, on Tuesday confirmed the arrest of a woman, who allegedly sold her three-year-old grandson to a ritualist. The Command’s spokesman, DSP Udeviotu Onyeke told newsmen that the woman was in the custody of the police in Umuobiakwa, as investigation continues.

Former Miss Delta State and blossoming Nollywood actress Lizzygold Onuwaje has put to bed. The 2008 Information Science graduate of Delta State University was delivered of a bouncing baby boy late Monday November 9th 2015 at Oasim Private Hospital in South Africa. The news came as a pleasant shock yesterday as the news of her pregnancy was never made public. A host of her friends had and still have on their dps a captivating picture of Lizzygold in what you would call ‘bikini baby bump photo’. Though seriously pregnant beyond the trimester period, Lizzygold was still able to remind all how alluring and beautiful she is. Not even the stress and burden of pregnancy could take away her smashing beauty and sex appeals. What do you think? Lizzygold Onuwaje

By Edward Jaleyemi President Muhammadu Buhari (GCFR) is worthy of a bold mention in the Guinness Book of Records, according to NFF President Amaju Pinnick. Pinnick spoke in Santiago on Monday morning as he boarded a flight to Buenos Aires on the way back home from a success story at the FIFA U-17 World Cup in Chile. Buhari in pep talk with Nigerian Under 17 Golden Eaglet team who are to play Mali in the Under 17 World Cup Finals in Chile tomorrow from his residence in Statehouse on 7th Nov 2015