IMAGINE how safe life would be in Lagos if commercial bus drivers stop drinking ogogoro and segbe(locally distilled gin drinks). And imagine how safe the roads would be if drivers were educated enough to attend mandatory driving schools.

When this reporter got an invitation to attend an event in Abeokuta, the capital of Ogun State, she did not envisage any problem given the fact that she is familiar with the ancient city.

It’s no longer news that there are millions of unemployed graduates, mainly the youths, in Nigeria who are walking aimlessly in search of whatever means of livelihood. Nigeria probably has the highest number of unemployed graduates in the world, which has contributed to social ills like youth restiveness in the Niger Delta and armed robbery

The Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), Lagos Council in collaboration with members of the Lagos State Police Command and Nigeria Press Council (NPC,) has set up a 14- man Task Force charged with the responsibility of ensuring arrest and prosecution of suspects who parade themselves as journalists without any valid document or place of employment.

With her ten-month-old baby strapped to her back and holding firmly to her three-year-old son, Mrs. Oladosu Anike, a resident of Egan waited anxiously at Iyana-Iba to board a vehicle to take her home. Time was 6pm but she was not to get home until 12 midnight due to the gridlock on this road. “It is not an easy task trekking a long distance after the day’s work but what can we do since this is usually the situation on Lagos roads,” she said resignedly.