JUST as many were ruing the unfortunate event of last Monday when ex-militants in their hundreds barricaded the Mbiama bridge end of the East-West road in Rivers State, a border area between Bayelsa and Rivers some yet to be identified gunmen in the wee hours of Friday yet again violated the peace of the riverine settlement of Opokuma in the Kolokuma-Opokuma Local Government Area of Bayelsa State, leaving in their trail death and destruction of properties.

Emotions ran high yesterday at the Lagos State Police Public Relations Office, Ikeja, after a 14-year-old girl told a crowd how she was impregnated by her 50-year-old father, resulting in her delivering a baby.

Lagos, the industrial, commercial and economic capital of Nigeria has a complex, often bizaare networks of roads, mostly characterised by deep pot holes, ditches and mini-gulleys that are death traps of road users across the sprawling metropolis.

With this year’s Lagos International Trade Fair presently in full swing, residents along the Badagry expressway and its environ are once again lamenting the heavy traffic jam usually associated the period.

Residents of Makurdi are now living in fear following reports of uncommon happenings at the mountainous Mkomon community in Kwande Local Government Area of Benue State where a volcanic eruption claimed two lives while property worth millions of Naira have also been destroyed.