The hellish experience businessmen and other commuters plying the ever-busy Mile Two – Seme Road go through on daily basis, cannot be blamed on the deathtrap nature of the trans-boarder road alone. The numerous road blocks mounted by security agents on the road, ostensibly to nab…

A few years ago, Rivers State featured prominently in the news for the wrong reasons. The state which was before then famous for the peaceful disposition of its people and the beauty of its environment soon became a familiar hunting ground for undesirable elements who unleashed terror on the populace.

Barely two months after she was diagnosed with kidney related problems at the Teaching Hospital Bauchi, Hajiya Nafisatu who worked with the Bauchi State Television BATV, was last week, involved in a ghastly motor accident which claimed her life and that of her five-year-old daughter.

The frequent ‘invasion’ of the ever-busy Oshodi/Apapa Expressway by fuel tankers with its attendant traffic congestion cannot be said to be news any longer.

This is certainly not the best of time for the Police in Rivers State. Between June to date no fewer than 25 of them had been gunned down in the state while on duty. The most recent was the incident of Tuesday where a robbery gang reportedly led by a lady shot dead a Sergeant and two civilians on Rumuola road in Port Harcourt.

The frequent ‘invasion’ of the ever-busy Oshodi/Apapa Expressway by fuel tankers with its attendant traffic congestion cannot be said to be news any longer. The development is a nightmare that most commuters and motorists also …

THE recent passage of a bill banning the obnoxious two-year advance rent paid by new tenants in Lagos State was loudly hailed in many quarters. It is generally perceived as a step in an attempt to bring sanity to the free-for-all housing sector.

Surely ,The problem of youth unemployment in Kwara State is one the administration of Governor Abdulfatah Ahmed is said to have effectively tackled since its inception.

IGBORE community in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital, was for over two years enveloped in darkness. Many of its residents whose sources of livelihood depend on electricity could not make ends meet as several steps taken to register their plights with the state authorities met a brickwall.

NIGERIAN politicians, at every level, always try to justify their ineptitude each time the international media portrays any aspect of our national life in bad light by accusing them of imperialism. They(Nigerian leaders) never deny the existence of problems so portrayed but go out of their way to even charge the local media to fight their international counterparts who, they claim, specialise in reporting only the bad aspect of the continent.

FOR most Lagosians, it was one disaster too many as they woke up on Monday to witness another shocking building collapse.

Bayelsa State which prided itself as the ‘oasis of peace’ in the once turbulent Niger Delta is gradually losing its tranquility due to the unnecessary shedding of innocent blood by rampaging cultists.

Nigerian Custom Service has detained a returning pilgrim, Magaji Muhammad and one Alhaji Suleiman, a Kano resident over the importation of army uniform in to the country.

They are found in almost the major streets of Minna, the state capital and even in some major cities of the state, including Suleja, Kontagora and Bida pushing their trucks or wheel barrows but without regard to other road users, including pedestrians.

IN a bid to boost the capital base of traders in the Lagos Central Senatorial District of Lagos State, Mrs Oluremi Tinubu recently flagged off a pet project tagged the Petty Traders Empowerment Capital Scheme, PETECS.