People were sweating profusely with some growing restless in this Agege-bound bus this hot and humid Lagos evening. Traffic was moving at a snail speed with various vehicles emitting dangerous smoke and horns hooting, all these intensifying the heat and the discomfort of road users.

By Mike Ebonugwo IT is celebration galore in Ghana presently following the history-making victory of that country’s junior team, the Black Satellites, at the recently concluded Under-20 World Cup in Egypt. Ghanaians and indeed all Africans have every reason to celebrate the Black Satellites feat because this is the first time an African team was […]

By Mike Ebonugwo In Lagos, the fares charged by commercial vehicle operators are often a source of friction and quarrel between them and their passengers.

By Mike Ebonugwo OL-BOY, did you see the kind of weapons that these Niger Delta militants have been surrendering?” queried a parliamentarian, Pius Udeh, at Ikeja in a worried tone. “When I first saw the thing in the newspapers, I thought it was exaggeration until I also saw the thing on television. Since they started […]

Bus-stop parliamentarians are as incensed about the recent murder of The Guardian newspapers journalist, Mr Bayo Ohu, as majority of the larger population. In fact, most parliamentarians could not help but express outrage over the sad development during an impromptu gathering at the Isolo Bus-stop in Lagos.

By Mike Ebonugwo The commercial bus left the popular Oshodi Bus-stop heading for Mile Two. It was initially an uneventful journey until  the conductor started demanding the mandatory fares from the passengers. Most of the passengers promptly paid the agreed fare except a woman with a little baby girl. Although the conductor had loudly announced […]

Football-loving bus-stop parliamentarians are worried over the uncertainty surrounding the players to represent Nigeria in the forthcoming Under-17 World Cup which the country is hosting in October.

By Mike Ebonugwo No one could have expected what happened. In the first place most of the motorists and passengers in commuter buses were preoccupied with thoughts of how to get out of the slow-moving, bumper-to-bumper traffic between Ago Junction in Okota and Pako in Oke-Afa. The situation was worsened by some impatient motorists who […]

If they are truly neglected, will there be anything like oil facilities there? Instead of them to take advantage of these facilities to better their lives they are busy blowing up everything. To prove that they don’t even know what they are doing they even came to Lagos to blow up the Atlas Cove.

They soon caught up with it at a traffic snarl close to the Mile Two bridge. The action of the police men, however, did not go down well with some passengers in a commercial bus heading for the Wharf.

And it’s worse now that they have GSM to play with, they tell lies almost everytime you hear them talking because they know the person they’re speaking with will not see them”.

The Lagos commercial bus had barely left the park when a voice with strong American accent suddenly and repeatedly shouted, “praise the Lord!”. And having obtained the desired chorus of, Amen! urged all present in the bus(except the driver) to bow their heads in prayer.

By Mike Ebonugwo Fashion-crazy Nigerian ladies may do well to read this. An impromptu gathering of parliamentarians in a commercial bus popularly known as Danfo has passed a judgement of condemnation on them after a heated debate on whether the prevailing dress culture in the country is justified in any way. The parliamentarians had boarded […]

By Ebele Orakpo At Egbeda Bus stop Thursday, the usual Lagos traffic was gradually building up and everyone was praying to get home before the heavens opened its bowels with heavy downpour. Suddenly, a newspaper vendor passed with some of his wares on display. The bold headline of one of the national dailies caught the […]

If Mike Eneramo has not missed that cross in the dying minutes, Nigeria would have scored. But I’m sure that by the time they come to Abuja, they will use basket to carry the goals we will score against them,” he boasted, waxing more and more confident.
A parliamentarian Francis Igwe, however, disagreed with him.