BARELY few weeks after Lagos State government signed the Traffic Bill into law, which among other things restricts officials of the National Union of Roads and Transport Workers, NURTW, to their motor parks, some members of the union have devised a smarter way to continue with their nefarious activities on the roads.

THE issue of corpses and animal carcasses on the highways will never cease to constitute an irritating, embarrassing and environmentally unpleasant sight not to mention its public health implications.

The Federal Capital Territory Administration, FCTA, has constituted a new committee as part of the measures to resolve the lingering Apo resettlement challenge.

JUST when efforts of the Benue State government to ensure peace in some troubled hinterlands of the state was paying off, an unanticipated explosive communal conflict erupted few days ago at a southern district of the state, an area that is renowned for its serenity and tranquility.

For residents of Zango, a surburb of Bauchi metropolis, the day will not be forgotten in a hurry. It was the day Abdullahi Shehu was brutally murdered. The slain man would be remembered as the hard working Aide De Camp, ADC, to Alhaji Abdumalik Mahmoud who was the former Deputy Governor of Bauchi State during the tenure of Alh. Ahmed Mu’azu as Governor.

THE Office of the Public Defender, OPD, was created by the former Governor of Lagos State, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, in 2000 to render free legal services to the less-privileged in the society regardless of their status, cultural or political affiliation and also to those whose fundamental human rights are being trampled upon.

Meantime the Federal Road Safety Corps has said that it would soon embark on the ranking of the 36 states and Federal Capital Territory with regard to their commitment and funding of road safety campaign programmes. The FRSC said that the annual review of states which would entail the peer review of all the states of the Federation and Abuja would be conducted for the purpose of ranking the states according to their commitment to the provision of safety on their roads.

Emotion was high and the atmosphere sober recently in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital, when the state governor, Senator Ibikunle Amosun, reeled out the number of deaths recorded in two years through road accidents. According to Amosun, in 2011 a total of 722 people died and another 1,696 injured in 1,975 accidents in the state. The year 2010 recorded 649 deaths, 1,533 injuries and1,980 accidents.

LAGOS State chapter of National Union of Road Transport Workers NURTW, has directed its members in the 37 Local Council Development Areas, LCDAs, of the State to get spaces suitable for motor parks as the existing ones in the 20 local government cannot cope with its membership capacity.

MRS. Opeyemi Adeshina drives one of the of the new skip trucks recently introducedd by the Lagos State Waste Management Authority, LAWMA.

DO you know that in some parts of Lagos, one can cross an express road at will as long as you have ‘kola’of as little as N100 in your pocket?

A banker, Mr. Olawale Adeyele, who was dragged before an Agege customary court, had his four-year old marriage crumbled like a pack of badly arranged cards as the court dissolved it with immediate effect.

FOR the family of James Obansa, the incident of Monday, which saw gunmen storming a branch of Deeper Life Church in Okene, Kogi State, killing 20 worshippers would linger in their memories for a long time. Indeed, life would no longer remain the same for them because their bread winner, a father of three, was one of the worshippers murdered in cold blood by the rampaging gunmen.

Barely two days after a suicide bomber attacked the Emir of Fika in Potiskum, Yobe State, in the mosque, claiming three lives, another bomber struck in Damaturu, the capital of the state, last Sunday, killing six soldiers of the joint task force (JTF). The latest bombing occurred along Gashua Road.

The Olupitan-Hassan family of Ikeja area of Lagos State has appealed to the Nigerian Army to fish out the alleged killers of their bread winner Adewale Olupitan-Hassan who died on Monday, July 30, barely one week after he was allegedly brutalised by some people in military uniform in Obanikoro area of the state.