RHETORIC aside, one notable achievement for which Alhaji Umaru Musa Yar’Adua will be remembered is the defusing of tension in the Niger Delta region through the Amnesty programme.

IN the last 25, 26 years, Philip Emeagwali, the Nigerian born American, world famous computer scientist, who is most times credited with the feat of being a father of the internet, has never set his foot on the Nigerian soil. And he has no apologies or immediate or future plans to visit. Ask him why, and he is unable to proffer any convincing answers.

There was pandemonium last Friday at the popular Cele bus stop along Oshodi-Apapa expressway, Lagos, when two suspected armed robbers on a motorcycle snatched a bag from a woman waiting to board a bus to Ikotun area of the state. This incident took place at the peak of commercial activities at the ever-busy bus stop.

Perhaps, this informed the recent position of the thirty six state governors on prison congestion.
Hinging on the fact that condemned prisoners contribute to the ever growing list of detainees, the governors approved the execution of all convicted prisoners across the country.

AFTER over 40 years of poor maintenance, overuse, frequent subjection to overbearing deadweight and cannibalisation, the River Niger bridge at Onitsha has become a nightmare to commuters.