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.

A house wife Mrs. Titilayo Ojo wept profusely as she begged an Alakuko customary court, Lagos to dissolve her marriage to Mr. Abayomi Ojo for being unfaithful to her.

As joblessness worsened by the profligacy of our political leaders and government functionaries who relish in squandering of public funds, and accumulation of ill-gotten wealth, extortion has become a thriving industry for many able-bodied men in most urban centres, towns and cities across the country.