Lagos Island is still reeling from fear and disquiet following the violence that erupted there on Monday, February 20, as two rival groups of the National Union of Road Transport Workers, NURTW, battled for supremacy and control of the area.

Designed as a social network to keep up with friends, share ideas, photos, links and many more in the new information order, social media, according to findings is killing creative writings among students in both secondary and higher institutions.

Sometime last year, specifically in July, at about 7.30 pm, I heard distressed callfrom under the Bridge close to the Nigeria Brewery, I was not surprised tbecause I knew “the boys” were at their nefarious act again. I was helpless, there was virtually nothing I could do about it because I was not armed.

“Thank God the incident happened at the night, otherwise it would have been more tragic.” This was one of several comments made by road users at Mile 2, Lagos when a fully-loaded truck with Premium Motor Spirit PMS(petrol) suddenly skidded off the turning and crashed into a motor park, resulting in a fire outbreak that killed three persons and burnt 39 vehicles in the process.

BUT for divine intervention, Mr. Umar Abdullahi, a 53-year-old business man and farmer who resides in Jaligo village in Bauchi local government, would have been a dead man; he would have died with nobody to tell what actually led to his death. The good news is that he survived and is alive to tell the story of his near-death experience.