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.