As schools resumed for the new session yesterday across Lagos, the state government has vowed to shut any school that failed to provide adequate security for its pupils, leading to the premises been used to perpetrate defilement, rape or other illicit acts.

As you step into the casualty unit of the Plateau State Hospital where they are receiving treatment, you cannot help but feel their pains as they shed tears profusely

Perhaps taking a cue from President Muhammadu Buhari who is yet to appoint ministers three months after being sworn into office, most newly elected state governors have stayed shy of announcing commissioners to work with them to deliver the much-talked-about dividends of democracy to the people. It is a development that has sharply been criticised in some quarters as being unhealthy to democratic practices.

For residents and motorists in Aba, the commercial nerve-centre of Abia State, transportation in and out of the city has been a nightmare in the last three months. Reason? The ongoing rehabilitation of some roads in the city has inflicted untold hardship on them.

Residents of Plateau State are not new to attacks, especially bombings, ambushes, isolated killings and the likes in Jos and the hinterlands of the State. Local government areas in the Northern zone of the State which include Jos North, Jos South, Jos East, Bassa, Riyom and Barkin Ladi are flashpoints of conflicts.