When Sani Tella, an Assistant Superintendent of Police, ASP, attached to the Ebonyi State Police Command, gave free rein to his anger by beating up Dr. Okafor Chukwujiekwu of the Obstetrics and Gynaecologist Department of the Federal Teaching Hospital, Abakaliki, FETHA, he probably did not bargain for the storm his action would engender.

Okoya/Ojogiwa Traders Association has called on the three-man panel set up by the Lagos State government to act fast in ascertaining the cause(s) of the inferno that has crippled the businesses of most of its members.

Mrs Mosunmola Ashaye was in a pensive mood that Thursday, as she sat on a sofa, staring at her sympathisers as if one of them would announce the miraculous resurrection of her husband, a retired naval officer. Alas, this was never to be for the father of four, who was slain on Monday February 4, during a gun battle with sea pirates in Bayelsa State in the course of his official duty.

The Lagos State government, weekend, said the ongoing reform exercise in the traffic management sector was aimed at improving traffic operatives’ sense of community services and achieve law enforcement with human face.

…Say we now sleep under the bridge
Residents of Iganmu Alawo Community in Apapa Iganmu Local Council Development Area, LCDA, obviously did not see it coming. So it came as a rude shock to them when they woke up last weekend to be confronted by bulldozers of the Lagos State Taskforce on Environmental and Special Offences Enforcement Unit. And by the time the operation, which was reminiscent of the Oshodi demolition exercise, was over, the slum settlement which had been home for the residents for years had been reduced to rubbles and they found themselves homeless.

With the intense heat from the sun that Sunday afternoon, it was a big relief around 11pm when residents of Ibadan, Oyo State capital saw the cloud gathering preparatory to the first rain of the year. However, the joy that greeted the change of weather was short-lived. Suddenly, the gentle breeze which gave way to a drizzle later turned into wind and then a destructive storm.

The dream of every parent is to train their children into becoming responsible citizens to care of them at their old age. But this was not to be for the Tyger family of Amassoma in Southern Ijaw Local Government Area of Bayelsa State whose 21-year-old son, Tariebi Tyger, a 200-level petrochemical engineering student of the Niger Delta University was cut down in his prime.

A COMMERCIAL motorcyclist Niyi Owolabi Saheed, whose motorcycle was allegedly stolen by Police Corporal Goroye Folagbade, has cried out against incessant threats to his life and his family by policemen of Ikorodu division. Corporal Folagbade served in Ikorodu division before his dismissal from the Force.

THE recent upsurge in kidnapping in the riverine enclave of Bayelsa State has again brought to the fore the fear in some quarters that the area is being used by some criminal elements to make the area relapse to its past infamy as bastion of violent crime.

A recent train ride shows that the Nigerian railway may crash again even after N3. 7trillion has been spent on it since the Abacha regime.

Though a predominantly civil servants state with no industries where everything revolves around the ‘Creek Haven’, the seat of power in Bayelsa State, Yenagoa, the serene capital city is fast losing its rural outlook.

Though a predominantly civil servants state with no industries where everything revolves around the ‘Creek Haven’, the seat of power in Bayelsa State, Yenagoa, the serene capital city is fast losing its rural outlook.

Mallam Idris Yusuf, a security man attached to the AIT/Raypower station in Bauchi, never saw death coming. Not even when he felt compelled to confront and arrest an armed robber he encountered on the way. As a security guard, he felt duty-bound to protect lives and property whenever the situation called for it. Unfortunately his bold effort in this regard ended tragically as he was shot dead by a member of a robbery gang he tried to apprehend recently.

More startling about Nigerian children is the fact that many of them are out of school. They suffer various forms of indignation and inhuman treatments. They battle for survival in an environment similar to the one described in the classic work, The Animal Kingdom.”

VLEKETE Slave Market which was established in 1502 in Badagry Lagos, served as the meeting point for European slave merchants, African middlemen and slaves brought from the hinterlands who were later auctioned. Although there were other slave markets in the country, the Vlekete Slave Market was unarguably the largest and most populated.