THIS is an incident that shouldn’t have happened, a tale that mustn’t be told, and a situation that a moral mind cannot fathom, yet, it was allegedly perpetuated by one Chibuike Maduka, 17, at Ndibe in Afikpo North Local Government Area of Ebonyi State.

While hawkers were at one end of the road, street traders occupied the other end. To compound the problem, mini-bus (danfo) drivers busied themselves with picking and dropping passengers in unauthorised places.

Exactly 100 days after Lagos state government commenced the re-accreditation of passenger buses and 42 days into the new year, owners, drivers and conductors across the state, have continued to ignore government’s directive on the exercise.

Despite its ban from the major roads over eight months ago in Lagos state, tri-cycles popularly called Keke NAPEP, is becoming a major means of transportation in the state despite major challenges the operators are facing.

WHAT began as a mutual transaction between unsuspecting tenants and two sweet talking ‘property developers’ in Lagos, has ended in a monumental fraud which is currently being investigated by the police.

THE Lagos State Task Force on Environmental and Special Offences (Enforcement) Unit, has arrested a traditional high chief (Baale) for alleged land grabbing.

THE detention of five under aged children of a community leader and Chairman of Uruebo village, Nkwelle Ezunaka in Oyi Local Government Area of Anambra State by authorities of the 33 Police Station in the area almost caused a riot in the station, forcing the police to release them immediately.

THE Lagos State Government intends to register about 21 million residents of the mega-city in the ongoing residents’ registration exercise which was flagged off four months ago by Governor Babatunde Fashola. The State Commissioner for Information, Mr. Lateef Ibirogba disclosed this while reacting to our story ‘Echoes of pains as Lagos residents’ registration enters 4th month’ which was published on Friday January 24.

THE Commandant General of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC, Dr. Ade Abolurin has urged the leaders of NSCDC Cooperative Society in all the states of the federation, to be resolute and firm in their dealings. He charged them to shun all acts of corruption and maintain integrity and credibility in their transactions.

Closed-Circuit Television, CCTV, is the use of video cameras to transmit a signal to a specific place, limited set of monitors. It differs from broadcast television in that the signal is not openly transmitted, though it may employ point to point wireless links. CCTV is often used for surveillance in areas that may need monitoring such as banks, homes, casinos, airports, military installations and convenience stores.

Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State, top members of his executive counciland some senior journalists, penultimate witnessed a public demonstration of the use of 1,200 security cameras CCTVs already deployed in Lagos State by the Federal Government.

Nigerians demonstrated their disdain for same-sex relationships last week when an angry mob almost lynched seven suspected homosexuals who were brought for trial before Sharia Court 4 in Anguwan Jaki, Bauchi State.

A visibly weighed down Dr Sunday could not respond when VM asked for his own side of the story. Pressed further, he retorted” I am dizzy and do not need to be disturbed on this issue.”
Meanwhile, the matter has been charged to the Magistrate Court 2, Ikeja. When the case came up for hearing last Friday, Sunday was granted bail with two responsible sureties who must be working and who have evidence of tax clearance Each to the sureties who must have verifiable addresses, was required to deposit N50,000.

On top of the one storey building located at 163, Itire Road, Mushin, Lagos, is a bold inscription ‘’JOSSY-JD LTD, Obstetric and Gynecology.”

Oba Lamidi Olayiwola Adeyemi III, Iku Baba Yeye, on Wednesday, January 14, 2014, clocked 43 years on the throne of the Alaafin of Oyo. How time flies! Time has moved at such a fast pace that one of the Yoruba most revered traditional rulers, during an interaction with Sunday Vanguard, could not understand how the feat of two scores and three that he has been on the throne was achieved. He, however, was certain that, “It is God Almighty; not by my power or effort. I give glory to Him.”