…Women seek herbalists’ help to find ‘missing cops’
“My husband is not dead. Therefore I won’t accept any money in lieu of him”. “Our husbands are not dead; they are only held hostage by alleged cultists. They can be rescued by herbalists”. These statements summarise the responses of some of the widows of the over 100 security officers killed in Nassarawa State by people suspected to be members of a cult. Life has not been the same for the widows and orphans since the demise of their bread winners.

The high number of repentant cultists that converged at the banquet hall of Bayelsa State Government House penultimate Saturday has again rekindled hope that the state is gradually moving towards becoming the ‘oasis of peace’ in the troubled Niger Delta.

A popular saying has it that where two elephants fight, the grass suffers. This aptly describes the present state of Imowo-nla community in Ikorodu area of Lagos State where the land owners popularly called Omo-Oniles have taken the law into their hands, threatening the peace of this ancient community in the process.

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THE notoriety synonymous with Oshodi and environs is gradually returning, as street urchins and social miscreants, popularly known as “Area Boys,” have returned en-masse, terrorizing and robbing passers-by and fund seekers at the recreation park, opposite the Lagos State Traffic Management Authority, LASTMA, headquarters.

What would push a man into an action that will inflict severe pain or even endanger the life of his own child? Which sensible or a normal father will readily take up a whip to flog a child that is only 14 months old? A child that can barely talk? These are some of the questions now begging for answers following the petition of a housewife who brought her husband before the Bauchi State Shariah Commission.

IT is longer news that those recently paraded as members of a child trafficking syndicate at the Lagos State Police Command, Ikeja, were arraigned at the Apapa Family court on Thursday, May 30, 2013.

FOR the past few days, Adigun Street in the Ikeja area of Lagos has become a Mecca of sorts as people throng the place to mourn with the family of the departed President-General, Association of Nigerian Market Women and Men, Alhaja Abibatu Mogaji, who died last Saturday at the age of 96.

Commuters and motorists plying the Oshodi-Wharf/Apapa route are presently struggling to come to terms with the jolting, albeit shocking, reality that the suffering and pains now associated with the worsening traffic jam along the Mile Two/Berger axis of the expressway may continue for a long time to come. Since the traffic ordeal began over three weeks ago, there has not been any respite in sight as road users are greeted with a worse version of the problem each new day.

WHEN the Plateau State Government banned the operation of commercial motorcycles, otherwise known as Okada, in the Jos-Bukuru metropolis sometime back, there were mixed reactions to the ban. While there are those who felt the ban would compound the difficulty of commuters who had depended on them for ease of movement, many other residents heaved a sigh of relief for various reasons, principal among which was because of the negative use to which the bikes were being put by criminals and miscreants.

FOLLOWING perennial flooding at Iyana Ejigbo junction along the Isolo-Egbe Road, in Ejigbo Local Council Development Area, LCDA, of Lagos State, the Ministry of the Environment has concluded plans to embark on immediate de-flooding of the area.

IN recent times, several disasters have been recorded in different parts of the country, ranging from buildings collapse, fire outbreak, flooding, plane crash and detonation of Improvised Explosive Devices IEDs, which have resulted in serious casualties.

Barely one year after drug peddlers and addicts sacked teachers and pupils of Oremeji Primary School, Ajeromi-Ifelodun Local Government, the state government is yet to reclaim the public infrastructure from its strange occupiers.

Five years after the Ijegun Pipeline explosion, Igando-Ikotun Local Council Development Area, LCDA, Lagos, which wreaked havoc on the community, victims of the disaster are still waiting for compensation.

IT was another nightmare for motorists and commuters at the Mile Two to Berger axis, Oshodi-Apapa Expressway as well as Cele- Express- Ejigbo- Ikotun Road on Wednesday night following traffic congestion that made movement to the areas nearly impossible.

If 25-year-old Emmanuel Nkwogba, who hails from Imo State, had known that going to work on the night of May 28, 2013 will cost him his life, he would have stayed at home with his family. But just as nobody knows the day or the hour of his death, he went to work and heeded the great call of all mortals.