If it was completed on schedule in 2009, the abandoned Federal Capital Territory (FCT)- Agatu-Bagana road project- which runs through Kogi and Nassarawa states -could have reduced the heavy traffic on the ever-busy Abuja-Lokoja highway. Many of the lives that have been lost on this narrow and pot-hole filled road would also have been saved.

For the fourth time within a space of three weeks, motorcycle operators popularly called Okada riders took to the streets to protest the decision of Lagos State government to ban their operation on the high ways in Lagos State with effect from December 31.

The spate of violence in Lagos took another dimension penultimate Thursday when street urchins popularly called Area Boys operating in the Mile Twelve area of Kosofe Local Council Development Area LCDA, engaged officers of the Nigerian Police in a shoot out that left several people injured while goods and property estimated at millions of Naira, were carted away.

THEY did not see it coming. All they wanted was to beat the heavy traffic on the deplorable Rumuolumeni Road. Because of the bad state of the road, vehicles sometimes could be trapped at a spot for close to an hour. Peak periods on the road are in the mornings when workers and students go out and in the evenings when they are on their way back home.

The Christian community in Ejigbo Local Council Development Area, LCDA, has called on the Lagos State Governor, Mr Babatunde Fashola to disregard any opposition to the construction of the Ejigbo-Ajao Link Bridge and ensure that the bridge is completed on time.

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.