Lagos State Commissioner for Works and Infrastructure, Dr. Kadri Obafemi Hamzat, is the son of one of the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, chieftains, Oba Mufutau Olatunji Hamzat, a former member Lagos State House of Assembly and also a former Commissioner for Transportation in the state (1979 – 1983) during the Alhaji Lateef Jakande administration. The Commissioner speaks on the Lagos light rail project and infrastructural development in the state. Excerpts:

University of Benin (UNIBEN) is being threatened by gully erosion. The authorities of the university took Sunday Vanguard round the erosion sites and the revelation was shocking because the problem is capable of bringing one of the leading universities in Africa into extinction. Over five houses at the senior staff quarters have already given-in to the gully while other buildings in the university and the neighboring communities are on the brink.

Memories of recent bomb attacks in Bauchi seem to be haunting residents of the State, creating fear and uncertainty in them. This is even as the victims of the latest bomb attack but who escaped death by whiskers, are presently recuperating at the Abubakar Tafawa Balewa Teaching Hospital in Bauchi.

As part of her quest to attain the millennium development goals, the Office of the Senior Special Assistant to the President on MDGs said it is considering the adoption of the Brazilian model on poverty reduction and social protection.

IT was an unexpected and unwelcome visitor and ruthless in the magnitude of the disaster it left in its wake. Indeed at the last count, two persons have lost their lives, no fewer than 100 communities submerged by flood and more than 300,000 persons rendered homeless across 10 local government areas of Delta State.