The Nigerian Lorry Drivers Association, NILODA, has decried alleged extortion of their members along the highways and multiple taxation by government agencies across the country.

IBADAN — OUT of 44 suspects that were arrested by the Oyo State Command of Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC, for alleged vandalism of petroleum pipelines, four of them were convicted in the year. Other suspects are still standing trial in various courts in the state.

The Governor of Osun State, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, on Monday, said that infrastructure development can only thrive in a state where the security of lives and property of citizens are guaranteed.

UGHELLI—PRESIDENT-General of Urhobo Progress Union, UPU, General Patrick Aziza (rtd), has vowed to place Urhobo ethnic nationality in its right place in the political scheme of things in the country.

GOVERNOR Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State said, yesterday, that Nigeria needed constant prayers from both Christians and Muslims for God to intervene in its problems.

The National Drugs Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, in Kogi State has arrested an awaiting trial inmate, Ilori Olusola, who escaped from Koton-Karfe Prisons in a 2012 jail break.

BENIN— GOVERNOR Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State has inaugurated the newly-reconstituted State Civil Service Commission, charging the members to reposition the service to meet present day challenges of effective and efficient service delivery.

GOVERNOR Chibuike Amaechi of Rivers State has charged security agencies in the country to shun any move to drag them into partisan politics.

Governor Ibikunle Amosun has sworn-in two new judges appointed into the Ogun State Judiciary, charging them to be fearless in the discharge of their duties.

A member of the House of Representatives, Abubakar Momoh, has charged media professionals and those in similar field to be vigilant to defend the nation’s democracy from those opposed to its tenets.

KINSMEN of alleged kidnap kingpin, Kelvin Ibruvwe, under the aegis of Kokori Progress Union, resident in Lagos, have appealed to President Goodluck Jonathan and Delta State governor, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan, to withdraw soldiers from the community to give room for the restoration of normal life and activities.

ABEOKUTA — The crisis rocking the Labour Party in Ogun State has taken another dimension as the party in the state, yesterday, dragged the former Governor Gbenga Daniel before the state High Court, asking that he be stopped from parading himself as the leader/chairman of the party in the state.

PORT HARCOURT— Deputy speaker of Rivers State House of Assembly, Leyii Kwanee, has commended Vanguard newspaper and the media generally in the state for standing on the side of truth and justice over the lingering political situation in the state.

Seven members of a notorious armed robbery gang, including a serving army officer, that specialized in hijacking goods on major highways in Lagos State, have been arrested by Operatives of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad, SARS, Ikeja, Lagos.

This is a season when people move from one part of the country to another to visit loved ones. In Nigeria as in other parts of West Africa particularly cities, roads would be jammed and the traffic busting its stem. But in more organised and developed chimes, the rail and the airports would witness more human traffic. As much as Nigerians would want to be part of the organised and developed world, they cannot lay claim to that yet as our airports are still work in progress. In fact, there is no gain saying that as a nation, we have out grown the Murtala Mohammed International Airport, Lagos as well as local airports across the country.