Years before VFS Global was instituted to partner/collaborate with some foreign embassies in Nigeria in respect to visa application processing for Nigeria visa seekers, applicants were subjected to all sorts of inhuman conditions in order to procure visa to visit countries of choice.

THE 11.8 kilometre Third Mainland Bridge in Lagos has been in the news in the last three weeks, albeit, for the wrong reasons. The whistle that the bridge, touted as the longest in Africa, is on the verge of collapsing, was blown by Senator Gbanga Ashafa, representing Lagos East Senatorial District in the Senate.

Road transportation constitutes a major means of moving goods, persons and services from one point to another in most parts of the world. In Nigeria, road transportation accounts for approximately 80 percent of all movements. Efforts to restore the old glory of the Nigerian Railway Corporation in a bid to redress the over-dependence on road transportation have only been partially successful, despite the fact that Nigeria had at different times within the last 25 years, sought the technical and managerial assistance of the Chinese, Indians, as well as the British who are reputed to have legendary skills in this area.

ALL over the world,unemployment has become a major headache to many leaders and their governments. In Nigeria, lack of jobs particularly the ones that could be regarded as gainful employment for the teeming youths and even graduates of various tertiary institutions, has defied many solutions. To a large extent too, the development has constituted a security threat.

CHARLES KUMOLU reports that the deluge of doubts that trailed the commencement of remodeling of airports across Nigeria, is giving way to rays of hope, following the recent commissioning of some completed projects in some airports.