In a manner of putting the record straight with regards to the role or contribution of the Nigeria Police Force in restoring order and sanity to the traffic jam-plagued Mile 2 to Tin Can axis of the Oshodi-Apapa Expressway, the state Commissioner of Police, Mr Fatai Owoseni, maintained that the Force have been playing a commendable role in ensuring that the persistent traffic gridlock in the area was effectively tackled. In an interview with Vanguard Metro, the Police boss explained that a collaborative Task Force with significant Police input has largely succeeded in unlocking the jam and maintaining the flow of traffic in the area.

Time was 6pm at the traffic-busy, indeed chaotic, Mile 2 area of Lagos. A mammoth horde of fuel tankers and other articulated trucks has as usual taken over every inch of driving space, thus impeding the flow of traffic along the Oshodi-Apapa Expressway from the Second Rainbow Bus-stop all the way to Berger and beyond. As expected, many motorists were trapped in the stand-still gridlock and in their helplessness could only give vent to their frustration and impotent rage.

AGAINST every expectation, Enugu State has lately been featuring consistently in the news bordering on the invasion of its communities by suspected herdsmen leading to wanton loss of lives and the destruction of farm lands and other properties.

AFTER years of mourning the loss of their life partners and toiling to make ends meet, many widows in Imo State presently have reason to smile as they count their blessings, thanks to the wife of the state Governor, Nneoma Nkechi Okorocha. Identifying shelter as an essential need of the widows, the Imo First Lady had since 2011 under the auspices of her “She Needs a Roof Project, SNARP”, built, furnished and handed over more than 172 units of two-bedroom bungalows for indigent widows and orphans, who do not have roofs over their heads

RESIDENTS of Kirikiri community in Oriade Local Council Development Area of Lagos State, have continued to groan as a result of the rapidly deteriorating condition of Dillion Street, one of the access roads in the community, which has become worse on account of the early rains.