Recently the success of the Federal Government’s amnesty programme was called to question when some ex-militants practically took the laws into their hands while protesting their alleged exclusion from the programme. The protesting former militants had barricaded the Mbiama bridge on the busy East-West road, a development that left most commuters plying that road stranded for several hours.

THE Cocoa Association of Nigeria has sheathed its sword in the ongoing cocoa war in Ogun State, agreeing to pay the new fees and levies but said the Produce Department, collecting the levies, should monitor quality of cocoa at the farm gate.

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.