It is not commonplace for old men to weep in public glare but these elderly citizens could not hold back their tears as they recounted their ordeal arising from many months of neglect and the attendant sufferings. Having given their all to their fatherland during their 35-years of active service, these senior citizens had expected that they would be paid their gratuities and other retirement benefits without much ado. But that was not to be, a situation that has turned them into beggars, depending on foodstuffs from neighbours to eke out their daily living.

YOUTHS in Lagos are again in festive mood and they are organising end of year parties, also known as, street jamz or carnival, in several communities to get together and mark the end of the year, their own way.

If Mr. Olusola Olalere, the General Chairman, Ifeleye/Ogunpa Market had known the people whom he had offended as the leader of the market, he would not have hesitated to beg them for forgiveness.

IMMEDIATELY the Lekki Concession Company Limited, LCCI, announced its intention to commence a user based tolling at the 2nd Toll plaza on the Eti-Osa Lekki-Epe Expressway by midnight, December 16th, this year, members of the public rose in strong condemnation of the move describing it as “anti-masses.”

They were 16 with different missions but ended up the same way – tragically. Seven students were crushed by a granite-laden truck as they were returning home after school in Ewekoro local government area of Ogun State. Few hours later, another four persons died when a Toyota Camry car marked, Lagos MUS 948 AR, and a Mazda marked, Lagos JP 602 AAA, collided at Olodo village along Abeokuta-Ibadan Road in Obafemi-Owode local government area. As if it was a day of death in the state, another accident that claimed the lives of five persons occured at Ogere village, by the old toll gate along Lagos-Ibadan Expressway in Sagamu local government area.