Mile 2-Apapa highway gridlock: Police, LASTMA, FRSC, others helpless
RESIDENTS, motorists and business owners along the Berger/Kirikiri corridor, yesterday, blamed the worsening traffic congestion on the Mile 2-Apapa expressway on the proliferation of container terminals in the area, saying the facilities have become the major source of the persistent gridlock.
Civil servants shut down Ogun State today
The Joint Public Service Negotiation Council says the peaceful conduct of the Ogun State workers is being mis-interpreted as a weakness in comparison with their neighbours in the South West which went on strike several times for non-payment of allowances.
How kidnappers met their waterloo in Bauchi
A daring attempt to make a dream fortune by a six-member gang of kidnappers in Bauchi was aborted as nemesis caught up with them following their arrest by men of the State Security Service in the state.
In Obubra, ex-militants strive to bury ghosts of the past
A very dark-skinned young man in his twenties who looked as if PHCN took light just as he was about to be born, scratched the back of his neck, and while stamping his feet intermittently on the ground, he screamed: “I want chop O! I want chop O! I go misbehave O!”.
MAARDEC’s Ms wheelchair contest gives voice to the physically challenged
Tobiloba Ajayi was born prematurely about 25 years ago. She suffered cerebral palsy while still in her mother’s womb and for 12 years after she was born could not walk with her two legs. She could have been thrown away by her parents but that was not to be her fate as succour was to come her way.
Lagos-Abeokuta expressway: It’s tales of woe everyday
The gridlock lasted for several hours, with the traffic stretching from Oshodi Under bridge to Ilezik on the ever-busy Lagos-Abeokuta expressway.
