LITTLE Miss Patience Abey (not her real name) of State School, Okoronu Odo on Ikwerre Road in Obio Akpor local government area of Rivers State said they were in classroom at about 10.30 a.m. on Thursday when they heard a deafening sound.

In line with the efforts of the Lagos State Government to bring sanity to the environment, the Amuwo-Odifin Local Government Councilhas begun moves to ensure that Festival Town popularly called FESTAC, where the council secretariat is located, is given a face-lift.

The feeling in many quarters in Imo State presently is that these certainly are not the best of times in the Eastern Heartland against the backdrop of the prevailing security challenges bordering on armed robbery and kidnapping. The security situation in the state worsened Monday night, May 7, 2012, following the brutal murder of Eze Stanley Akuneto, the traditional ruler of Umueze-Abazu, Ogwa, Mbaitoli local government area of the state.

The family members of a 12-year-old girl, Chisom Iheancho, who left home six months ago and has not been seen or returned home till now, are still running around to unravel the mystery surrounding her disappearance. Chisom was at the time she went missing, a Primary 6 pupil of Saint Francis Primary School in Maryland. No one had seen or heard from her since she went missing six months ago.

First Lady Dame Patience Jonathan has expressed confidence that the driving culture within the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, would change when the first batch of 200 trainees of the Lady Chaffeur Training Scheme begin to drive within Abuja.