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.

THE evacuation of 283 indigenes of South East and South-South geopolitical zones of the country from Borno State by the Ebonyi State government elicited a lot of cheer from most of the returnees as they had almost given up hope of escaping from the lion’s den before Governor Martin Elechi came to their rescue.

A LAGOS based civil engineer, Engr Afolabi Adedeji gave other reasons for the deterioration of the Expressway and why it is always flooded even at the slightest rain..