THE Federal Road Safety Corps, FRSC, has raised the alarm that gridlocks created by tankers, including other articulated vehicles on bridges in Lagos and other major cities are dangerous and capable of damaging them. The Lagos State Sector Commander, Mr Hyginus Omeje, harped on the need to preserve the bridges to last longer. For years, intractable traffic lockdowns have bedevilled the Apapa axis of Lagos. The impact of the congestion is weakening the bridges daily.

A collapse of the Nigerian State will most likely result in an unpredictable number of mini states controlled by war lords. Imagine leaving Lagos and encountering a Customs Post in Ikorodu, then Ijebu Ode, then Ofuse, then Benin City, etc. or travelling Northwards, in Shagamu, then Ibadan, then Ilorin, then Minna and so forth

In keeping with its promise to make financial services easy and accessible to its teeming customers, Keystone Bank Limited on Monday launched another innovative mobile channel enabled by dialling *533# within Nigeria.

Oba Sikiru Kayode Adetona, the Awujale of Ijebuland, in Ogun State, is alive, hale and hearty, contrary to widespread rumours about his demise.

A traditional ruler of a community in Ikorodu area of Lagos has been arrested alongside three others in connection with activities of Badoo cult’s killings in the community with the latest on Sunday claiming the lives of a family of four at Oke- Ota Ibeshe community.

PAN-NIGER Delta Forum, PANDEF, the umbrella body of monarchs, leaders and stakeholders of the coastal states of the Niger Delta region under the leadership Chief Edwin Clark, yesterday, gave the Federal Government an ultimatum for November 1, 2017 to put in place a mechanism of addressing the 16-point agenda raised by the body.

Mobile policemen guarding the house of former President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan in Abuja have allegedly burgled it, carting away expensive properties worth millions of naira.

YOU cannot re-invent the wheel is a popular saying. The technology behind the invention of the wheel is constant and the same, admitting or needing no variation. The job is already done and all anyone need do is adopt it and proceed there from and not belabour one’s self trying other means and methods to get the same job done. What this means is that certain things are fundamental and foundational that they need not – in fact, cannot – be tampered with.

UYO—FORMER Minister of Housing and Urban Development and Atta of Ekid, Eket Local Government Area, Akwa Ibom State, Chief Nduese Essien, says that for about 46 years, Exxon Mobil Oil Company had never paid compensation for oil spills to any community in the state, instead, it ran around to pay token money as palliative.

A five-month-old baby was yesterday burnt to death after fire engulfed a one-storey building in Agbado-Oke Odo Local Council Development Area, LCDA, Lagos State.