If some officials of the Zonal Office of Nigerian Immigration Services, NIS, did not invite Vanguard Metro, VM, to the decoration of their newly promoted personnel, our reading public may never have known the level of suffering officers and men of three uniformed organisations are passing through in this day and age.

COMMERCIAL motorcycle operators popularly called ‘Okada riders’, weekend, gathered in their hundreds on the popular Awolowo road in Ikeja as they prepared to march to the seat of government at Alausa.

Lagos State Commissioner for Works and Infrastructure, Dr. Kadri Obafemi Hamzat, is the son of one of the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, chieftains, Oba Mufutau Olatunji Hamzat, a former member Lagos State House of Assembly and also a former Commissioner for Transportation in the state (1979 – 1983) during the Alhaji Lateef Jakande administration. The Commissioner speaks on the Lagos light rail project and infrastructural development in the state. Excerpts:

University of Benin (UNIBEN) is being threatened by gully erosion. The authorities of the university took Sunday Vanguard round the erosion sites and the revelation was shocking because the problem is capable of bringing one of the leading universities in Africa into extinction. Over five houses at the senior staff quarters have already given-in to the gully while other buildings in the university and the neighboring communities are on the brink.

Memories of recent bomb attacks in Bauchi seem to be haunting residents of the State, creating fear and uncertainty in them. This is even as the victims of the latest bomb attack but who escaped death by whiskers, are presently recuperating at the Abubakar Tafawa Balewa Teaching Hospital in Bauchi.

As part of her quest to attain the millennium development goals, the Office of the Senior Special Assistant to the President on MDGs said it is considering the adoption of the Brazilian model on poverty reduction and social protection.

IT was an unexpected and unwelcome visitor and ruthless in the magnitude of the disaster it left in its wake. Indeed at the last count, two persons have lost their lives, no fewer than 100 communities submerged by flood and more than 300,000 persons rendered homeless across 10 local government areas of Delta State.

APART from periodic political upheavals and serious crimes like kidnapping and armed robbery, Imo State is faced with a number of other problems. Gully erosion is one of them.

“We thought we were under military siege and some of our people fled their homes when they saw the armada of boats and armed soldiers heading towards our community,” said John Oweikorogha (not real name) an indigene of the oil-rich Igbomotoru community in the Southern Ijaw Local Government Area of Bayelsa State.

Originally, the statue was placed opposite Ojodu Berger bus stop at the point of entry to Lagos from the Ibadan end of the expressway by the administration of Colonel Raji Rasaki in 1991. Even at inception controversy trailed their positioning as many were against it for whatever reason.

STAKEHOLDERS have expressed divergent views on the new environmental law recently enacted by the Lagos State Government.

MOTORISTS along Ikoyi, Lekki-Epe axis will soon heave a sigh of relief as the first ever cable styled bridge of its kind in the sub Saharan West Africa region – Lekki-Ikoyi Link Bridge, has reached 95 percent stage of completion.

Against the backdrop of the recent demolition of Makoko, a coastal community in Lagos, by the state government, a lawmaker in the Lagos State House of Assembly has called on government to design programmes that will ensure that people living in slums are given a new life.

A middle aged man, Mr. Femi Bamidele, who was dragged before a Grade A customary court, Agege for divorce by his wife, Esther, for incessant beating with dangerous weapons, alleged that his wife was fetish.

Mrs. Nnee Uloko, who was dragged before a Lagos customary court sitting in Agege for divorce by her husband, Mr. Sunday Uloko, for embarrassing him in public, alleged that her husband, a policeman, and his brother beat her and she lost a five-month-old pregnancy in the process.