PALPABLE fears and uncontrollable anxiety are said to be plaguing the minds of over 5000 traders of the popular Kpirikpiri Market located directly opposite Saint Patrick Road, Amikeaba, in Ebonyi Local Government Area of Ebonyi State.

FOR a host of Lagosians and motorists, plying the numerous dilapidated highways across the state has become harrowing and nightmarish. They need some doses of patience, endurance and prayers to move from one point to the other.

VIOLATORS of the new traffic law in Lagos State may be in for a tougher time as the General Officer Commanding 81 Division of the Nigeria Army in Lagos, Major General Kenneth Minimah, has promised that the military would not only conform but would also assist in enforcing the law.

News of the introduction of the road traffic law in Lagos seemed to have been received with a lot of misgivings and trepidation by most motorists, especially commercial bus drivers and their commercial motorcycle counterparts popularly called “Okada riders”.

SELFLESS service to humanity and building an enduring partnerships took centre stage at the 8th West African Project Fair, WAPF, hosted by Rotary International District 9110, penultimate weekend at the Golden Tulip Hotel, Festac, Lagos.

IT has been one month since the ravaging floods submerged several communities in worst hit Ahoada West, Ahoada and Ogba/Egbema/Ndoni localities of coastal Rivers State. Over the weekend, the State Commissioner for Information, Mrs. Ibim Semenitari, and teeming affected victims also confirmed that the marauding floods have further started overwhelming communities in Abua/Odua Local Government Area too.

Bonny community in Rivers State is home to a Shell oil terminal and the Nigerian Liquefied Natural Gas, NLNG. Over the course of these corporate tenants’ business of tapping crude oil and gas deposits in the shores of this tiny island, there has been established, as in most oil host communities, a love-hate relationship in which the natives repeatedly feel compelled to sack the operating companies for perceived unsatisfactory returns to the landlords.

The Managing Director, Lagos Waste Management Authority, LAWMA, Mr. Ola Oresanya has said that the ‘Waste-for-Food’ initiative recently introduced by the state government was to bring about development and wealth creation to state.

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.