APART from Libya where an all female soldiers were said to have provided security for slain Libyan leader, Col. Muammar Gaddafi, in Edo State, it has become a common sight by commuters seeing female drivers at the State owned Edo Intra–City bus, otherwise known as the “COMRADE BUS”. The female bus drivers, 20 in number, were among the 59 that were trained for three months by the Federal Road Safety Corps, FRSC.

TIme was about 3.00 p.m. on Monday October 17, 2011. The location was Ikwerre Road Mile 1 Diobu Port Harcourt. Two men clad in mobile Police khaki uniform were spotted clutching two AK47 rifles at the entrance and exit gate of the Mile 1 branch of Diamond Bank.

TIme was about 3.00 p.m. on Monday October 17, 2011. The location was Ikwerre Road Mile 1 Diobu Port Harcourt. Two men clad in mobile Police khaki uniform were spotted clutching two AK47 rifles at the entrance and exit gate of the Mile 1 branch of Diamond Bank. No one gave special attention to their presence there because armed uniform men around banks in Port Harcourt and indeed all banks across the country is a common sight.

KWARA State government surely got what it didn’t bargain for when the results of the promotional examinations to SS3 were finally released to the respective schools and then pasted on their notice boards.

COmmercial motorcycle operators in all parts of the country obviously have their ugly sides. They unduly get on people’s nerves. Apart from that, they also account for a good percentage of road traffic crashes, especially in city centres. But experience has also shown that there are some good ones among them.

FOr motorists plying the Oshodi-Apapa Expressway, the major route leading in and out of the Apapa Wharf and Tin Can Ports, the economic hub of the nation, frequent traffic jams have always made the experience an unforgettable nightmare.

Lagos State Public Works Corporation, LSPWC, has noted that it will limit to the barest minimum its routine maintenance work due to torrential rainfall which has been predicted to extend towards the end of the last quarter of 2011.

THE Ebonyi State government is presently trying to come to terms with the shocking reality of the sacking or disengagement of its indigenes by the Abia State government. The development became a matter of deep concern when …

THe World Bank has concluded plans to inject $60 million into projects in Edo State following the pass mark given to the government by the bank for the ongoing projects in the state.

THOUSANDS of residents in Ajegunle area of Ikorodu, Lagos State are still battling with flood following torrential rainfalls in the South Western part of the country. Worst hit are those living in Akute, the boundary between Ogun and Lagos states who are presently counting their loses after being sacked from their homes by the rampaging flood. But the most pathetic are pupils in the area whose schools have been taken over by the flood, forcing them to stay at home.

IT was a case of everyday for the thief, then comes a day of reckoning. There are many who specialise in vandalising Power Holding Company of Nigeria, PHCN, transformers and stealing cables there. Their criminal exploits in this regard have over time afforded them the opportunity of becoming instant millionaires.

The Executive Secretary of State Emergency Relief and Rehabilitation Agency, SERERA, Kano, Abubakar Jibril has disclosed that 14 local government councils in the state were affected by flood this year.

ON Sunday October 23, residents of Ajegunle along Ikorodu Road woke up to be confronted by a serious flood arising from the overflow of the Odo-Ogun river. The surge especially affected the major tarred road leading to Ikorodu and its environs.

LAST Tuesday Vanguard Metro, VM, ran the story of a 95-year-old man who was killed by some members of the Ikpe Ikot Nkon community of Akwa Ibom State for being a wizard. The story also made a passing reference to the ordeal of some children either suspected of being members of witchcraft cult or afflicted by ailments associated with witches.

THE residents of house No. 44 Ijaiyi Street, in Ajeromi Ifelodun Local Government, of Lagos State, were shocked beyond words on Friday, October 14, 2011 as a mysterious fire gutted the one storey building.