The Mercedes W 113 SL model series hit the market in 1963. Due to the design of its removable hard top, the roadster quickly earned the moniker “Pagoda.” Today, more than 50 years later, the German two-seater is one of the most popular vintage cars on the market.

Effective Transport Systems is divided, after the introductory chapter, into eight chapters. One chapter is given to aviation. Four chapters deal with different aspects of transportation by land: in the urban environment, on the highways, by rail, and using pipelines. Four other chapters examine navigation under different headings: inland waterways, coastal shipping, transportation on the high seas, and the operation of seaports and terminals.

There are strong indications that the Oluwo of Iwo-Oke, Oba Kadiri Adeoye may today drop his case against the Oluwo of of Iwo, Oba Abdulrasheed Akanbi, a first class traditional ruler in the state following the intervention of the governor of the state, Mr Rauf Aregbesola just as Magistrates’s Association of Nigeria, Osun State branch threatened to embark on strike action over the development.

NIGERIA’s aviation industry in 2016 witnessed relative safety as there was no air crash and no major safety incident despite the harsh economic environment the airline operators were forced to operate in. The current economic recession in the country with resultant scarcity of foreign exchange impacted negatively on the aviation sector as it relies heavily on the dollar.

An undergraduate of Babcock University, Ilishan-Remo, Ogun State, Unokyoh Junior, has reportedly committed suicide. The reason for his action is yet to be ascertained.

Abuja—Policemen from Force Headquarters, Abuja, working with men of Rivers State Police Command, have smashed a robbery operation at a bank in Port Harcourt.

BENIN—A 32-year-old kidnap suspect, Desmond Ozo, yesterday, narrated to journalists in Benin how his gang kidnapped and raped a middle-aged woman (names withheld) serially.

WARRI—TWO indigenes of Urhobo and Isoko ethnic nationalities in Delta State have been abducted at Aladja, Udu Local Government Area of the state by suspected ethnic warlords.

The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ekiti State has dismissed the allegation by Governor Ayodele Fayose that the party was plotting his removal through the manipulation of the judiciary to re-open Army Panel report on the 2014 governorship poll to have his election victory reversed.

WHEN we were young (many moons ago!), I shared a flat in London with a clever, vivacious and beautiful fellow journalist called Aminatta Forna. Her mother was Scottish. Her father, Mohammed Forna, a highly principled native of Sierra Leone, had started his career as a medical doctor, then branched into politics.