DEspite the order given by the Inspector-General of Police, IGP Suleiman Abba, charging all commissioners of police across the country to ensure strict compliance with the ban on police roadblocks, Vanguard, gathered Weekend, that in recent times, illegal checkpoints have been resurfacing across major roads in the Lagos suburbs and metropolis, usually during the evening periods, from 6.00pm to as late as 11.00pm.

FEW months ago, when many Lagos residents and users of the everr-busy Oshodi-Apapa expressway thought solace had come their way over the perennial traffic gridlock witnessed daily on the road, their optimisms have been dashed following the worsened situation of the log-jam, which is not unconnected to the untidy job done by Julius Berger Plc, on the Berger-yard axis of the road.

The signing of the bill establishing an agency for the management and maintenance of infrastructure assets of Lagos State, by the Governor Babatunde Fashola, last week has continued to elicit reactions from residents in the state.

Rape and ritual killings are aberrations people condemn all over the world, but when it has to do with rape of minors and ritual killings involving children like what is happening in Nigeria it is absolutely despicable.

Mrs. Juliana Godwin, a 42-year-old Junior Secondary School I (JSSI) student of Junior Secondary School, Gosa, Abuja, has become one of those persons with strong will to change her condition.

Worried by the recent cases of mayhem threatening the security of lives and properties in Ekiti State, Governor Ayodele Fayose, on Monday, swiftly called a meeting of the police authorities in the state, among other stakeholders, so as to take a proactive measure to address the problem.

Ogba Egbema Ndoni Local Government Area in Rivers State has never been a stranger to tragic happenings. It was in the news again over mindless killings as unknown gunmen stormed the community at about 7pm last Friday, shooting sporadically. This time the scene of the act was Omoku, headquarters of the local government area.

Until lately, there has been several but botched attempts by unknown groups to bomb Muslims worship centres within Kano municipal and its environs over the last two years. But on each occasion, it was the security consciousness of the citizens that thwarted the crime. Suffice to say that, Kano was fully conscious of the danger that lurks before it finally manifested itself last Friday at the Central Mosque where thousands of worshippers converged weekly for the largest and compulsory congregational prayers of the week.

The Plateau State Ministry of Women Affairs and Social Development has raised alarm over the increasing rate of rape of minors in the State and appeals to parents of victims to stop covering up such act due to shame but come forward to report same as rape is a criminal offense against the State.

Residents in Lagos State, have continued to berate the State Fire Service for often delaying in coming to put-out building gutted by fire in the state, lamenting that this has majorly contributed to huge loss of properties worth million of naira.