When the present Rector of the Federal Polytechnic, Nekede, Owerri, Dr. Celestina Njoku, took over in September 2010, as the substantive Rector, the school community jubilated. It was a seeming endless jubilation.

When 39-year-old Anthony Offor walked into Vanguard premises recently, it was almost difficult to know that he was suffering from hearing impairment. His neat appearance and dignified carriage initially did not give the impression that he had come to solicit for assistance. But after a question-and-written- response interview with Vanguard Metro, his mission became clear enough.

Following the perennial traffic congestion across Lagos, the Lagos State Traffic Management Authority, LASTMA, has reiterated its determination to entrench sanity on Lagos roads by ensuring that every traffic offender is punished in accordance with the law of the land.

ANY one who has seen the high walls of the Port Harcourt prisons would certainly doubt if it is possible to scale over it. But it happened last Sunday.

Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State distributed 500 auto-vehicle inspector devices to the Nigeria Police Force, NPF; the Federal Road Safety Corps, FRSC; Lagos State Traffic Management Authority, LASTMA and the Vehicle Inspection Units, VIUs, as part of the measure to stem traffic gridlock in the state.

In 2009, when Elder Godsday Orubebe, Minister of Niger Affairs, spoke in Copenhagen, Denmark about his passion to swiftly and promptly bring up sustainable, holistic development of the Niger Delta region, I sympathised with him.

For Octogenarian Pa Fatai Soneye, a native of Ikorodu in Lagos State, Thursday July 28 will remain an unforgettable day in his life. That was the day he had a narrow escape from death.

The recent upsurge of violence and crimes across the country, most especially the incessant bombings in some parts of the North by the Islamic sect, Boko Haram, was at the centre of this year’s Combat Support Arms, COSAT, Training week 2011.

IT was an experience in self-discovery driving through these rural villages in some of the most remote areas in the country. But for the well-tarred roads that lacked drainage, it would have been easy to say that these communities are disconnected from the flashes of civilizazation.

Kano municipal was thrown into festivities recently following a court order directing the Emir of Kano, Ado Bayero to reinstate an influential kingmaker, Aminu Baba Dan’Agundi, sacked in 2003 by the monarch.