They saw it coming since they had long been warned that sooner or later the fate that befell businesses and structures located along the Orile to Mile Two stretch of the Lagos-Badagry expressway presently undergoing expansion would also be visited on them. Yet when the bulldozers came roaring again, traders and others operating along the Maza-Maza to Agboju Market stretch of the road could not help but let out a cry of anguish.

RECENTLY, a security man, Moshood Afolabi, was found dead in a 17- storey building after he was declared missing by the family. Earlier, the family had reported his mysterious disappearance to a local vigilante group where he works at Oto-Awori local government development council after four days of waiting for him to return from his usual night watch.

ABEOKUTA – Contrary to the media report purportedly linking the commercial motorcycle operators with the dreaded Boko Haram sect, the South Western leaders of the Amalgamated Commercial Motorcycle Owners and Riders Association (ACOMORAN) said its members are neither “Boko Haram” nor “willing tools” in the hands of the sect.

When I read and listen to the moanings of my colleagues who travelled to Liberia with the Super Eagles, I thank God for diverting me as it were to Niamey as part of the delegation for the Africa U-17 Qualifier against Niger.

President Goodluck Jonathan declared, yesterday, that he is presently preoccupied with serious governance and warned politicians not to distract him with politics of 2015, saying the next general elections in year 2015 was still three years away.