The expression of frustration and anguish was what wroth the faces of over 100 youths, who recently stormed the Secretariat of the Nigerian Union of Journalists, in Oke-Ilewo Abeokuta, Ogun State, to protest their alleged enslavement by their employers, mainly foreigners.

‘They will soon come and take me home since I don’t have another alternative. It is better to die at home than to die in the hospital because no service is being rendered here, and if you die here they will still collect money before they release the corpse,” Opaleye Peter said amidst tears.

The once united and formidable Carpenter and Furniture Makers Professional Unions Ondo state Chapter is now disunited. No thanks to alleged high-handedness by leaders of the Association.

The grand finale of the Federal Government endorsed Oronna Ilaro Festival comes up on Saturday, November 22 at the Asade Agunloye Pavilion, Yewa Empire Field , Ilaro.

For the third time in three weeks , Azare, the headquarters of Katagum Local Government Area of Bauchi State came under another deadly blast on Sunday leaving several persons at a popular mobile phone market dead.

The Lagos/Ibadan Expressway has been dubbed in some quarters as a highway of horror due to the frequent fatal auto accidents that have occurred there. This possibly explains why commuters usually engage in passionate prayer sessions before embarking on a journey through that seemingly accident-prone road.

On September 28, when the Lagos State Government, LASG, said it had employed no fewer than 80 women Bus Rapid Transit System, BRT, drivers, with its asset management company, the Lagos Bus Asset Management Company, LAGBUS, it was commended for its action, given the army of unemployed youths roaming the streets of Lagos in search of unavailable white-collar jobs. The state government had stated that this employment was part of its efforts to empower women in the state.

Thousands of commuters, penultimate Monday, were stranded on the ever-busy Lagos-Badagry Expressway, as private bus operators popularly called Coaster Mass Transit withdrew their services from the roads to protest their extortion by the two major transport unions in the state.

Against the backdrop of reported cases of assaults and extortion of innocent motorists plying major routes in Lagos roads, the Lagos State Traffic Management Authority, LASTMA, has urged residents to be vigilant over the rising presence and activities of men claiming to be its officials and the state’s taskforce unit.

LIFE is full of many inexplicable ironies. While some were born with silver spoon in their mouth, some did not enjoy the luxury of being fed with any spoon let alone a silver spoon. Some have sumptuous meals on their tables at any given time, but, fate has been so unkind to others as they live like parasites on few affluent ones. Instead of eating what they want like people in wealthy homes, they eat what they see.

Potiskum, the commercial nerve centre of Yobe State, North East Nigeria, has in recent time consistently featured in the news for a most saddening reason bordering mainly on mass death and destruction. Indeed within a space of one week, two suicide bombers had succeeded in embedding themselves among gatherings of innocent people, killing scores and inflicted lasting injuries on several others.

Traders at the Millenium Merchants and Importers Association Market, near the Onitsha Main Market, Anambra state, are still counting their losses days after a bloody clash between them and officials of Onitsha South Local Government council.

The public hearing by the tribunal of inquiry into the July 4th, 2014 road accident and subsequent arson and vandalism of the Bus Rapid Transit, BRT buses has ended with accounts by different witnesses of what they believed transpired on the fateful day.

Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State has arrested a driver working for Lagos State Signage and Advertisement Agency, LASAA, for driving against traffic.

Traders at the Millenium Merchants and Importers Association Market, near the Onitsha Main Market, Anambra state, are still counting their losses days after a bloody clash between them and officials of Onitsha South Local Government council.