The advantage of Lagos being located along the coastline has not been fully utilised because the waterway has not really been developed and the water transportation is still in its rudimentary stage.
In a place with over 20 million inhabitants, the water transportation needs to be more attractive to reduce road transportation prone to gridlock, which is one of the major issues of the magacity

Few years before now, the major demand of millions of residents of Ikorodu from the Federal and Lagos state governments was the reconstruction of the Mile 12-Ikorodu road to respond to the population explosion in the axis. But today, there are fresh challenges as the work progresses.

It has ben a string of attacks since Sunday, January 13 when Kawuri in Konduga LGA, Borno State was invaded by suspected Boko Haram insurgents, sacking about 37 communities with thousands of residents displaced taking refuge in Cameroon Republic and villages in Chibok, Damboa, Gwoza, Konduga council areas as well as Maiduguri, the state capital.

On January 26, 2014, the people of Chakawa village, a border community between Madagali in Adamawa State and Gwoza in Borno State woke up normally with high hopes of a crisis-free Sunday worship.
But, little did they know that danger loomed over the village, a predominantly Christian settlement.

The day-long journey started from Jigawa Hotels, better known in Dutse, Jigawa State capital, as “Three Star”. There were six of us journalists, accompanied by the Director of Press, Government House, Malam Umar Kyari. Our assignment was to travel to as many parts of the state as possible to monitor the local government elections which were taking place on Saturday, January 18 , 2014. Naturally, Kyari also wanted us to see some of the projects that the state government under Governor Sule Lamido was putting in place to justify his mandate by the Jigawa electorate.

These timeless words kept re-echoing in my mind when I read recent utterances of one Albert Stephen on the political situation in Adamawa State. He was purportedly responding to some issues raised by Governor Murtala Nyako on developments in the state and Nigeria. Unfortunately, rather than build his arguments on facts of the matter, he dwelt more on falsehood and messages, which border essentially on mischief, blackmail and hate mongering. But then, for those of us who know him very well, we are not surprised.

Jos, the metropolitan capital of Plateau State, is fast recovering from her over two decades of multi-dimensional ethno-religious/political imbroglio. This devastated the city cum state for years leading to massive bloodshed and exodus of non-indigenous residents with the resultant capital flight.

It is all too easy to forget the pains of yesterday once you are out of a deep, wrenching hole. All of a sudden, the comfort of today becomes all too familiar, all too normal to the point of convenient complacency, and even selective amnesia. Under the circumstance, you even forget that you won the new comfort on the back of severe pains; and probably personal sacrifices. This is the story of the Nigerian aviation sector. No. The Nigerian airport user.

IN January 2012, the mass protests against the so-called removal of fuel subsidy were violently disrupted by the police and the army personnel. During its recent industrial action the Academic Staff Union of Universities had cause to direct its members to embark on protests to draw public attention to the underfunding of public universities in Nigeria. The police dispersed the protesting academics with tear gas. A fortnight ago, a political rally in Port Harcourt, Rivers State was brutally suppressed by the police. In justifying the violent attack, Mr. Joseph Mbu, the Rivers State Commissioner of Police claimed that the rally was unauthorized as the conveners did not obtain police permit.

Mrs. Yemisi Smart Adeyemi was a newscaster with the Nigerian Television Authority, Ilorin where she met her husband, Senator Smart Adeyemi, who was equally working at the NTA. She left after 10 years of service and now pre – occupies herself with her NGO – Mannah Dew Charity Foundation. In this interview, after donating home equipment to some women in Iyara, Kogi State, she revealed how she copes as a senator’s’ wife and her passion for giving.

LIke other spheres of Nigeria’s national life, the story of the aviation sector from the 1980s to 2011, had been characterised by systemic failure, as there was hardly any airport in the country that met acceptable international standards.

THE joy of thousands of unemployed youths who are currently engaged in the Subsidy Reinvestment and Empowerment programme, SURE-P of the Federal Government knew no bounds when the project was officially launched in Oyo State last Friday.

WHen the Girl Child Education Project, GEP was introduced in Bauchi State, residents and stakeholders in the state breathed a sigh of relief because they felt that a solution has been found to the problem of out of school girls.

Ebere Unachi (not real name) had lost her husband during the infamous 2011 Christmas day bomb blast in Suleja, Niger State. The untimely demise of the father of four left the 38-year old petty trader, with the huge responsibility of taking care of her large home.

Nigerian businessmen in China are bitter over the absence of a consulate in Guangzhou, the commercial nerve centre of China, mostly populated by Africans.