AS the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Friday, begins the distribution of Permanent Voters Card, PVC, in Lagos, the State Police Command, has issued a red alert to its operatives across the state to checkmate the activities of criminal elements indulging in the collection of the INEC temporary voters cards from unsuspecting residents, on the pretext of promising to help them (residents) obtain their PVCs without hitches.

AS residents of Lagos await deployment of the Subsidy Reinvestment and Empowerment Programme and Federal Road Maintenance Agency, SURE-P/FERMA taskforce to the state, the agency has finally disclosed that its major responsibility is to recover all the abandoned properties of the Federal Government in the state, and not to cause trouble.

Ejigbo Local Council Development Area, LCDA, has commissioned the multi-million naira jetty, as part of efforts to boost intra-city transportation in the council area.

WeDNESDAY, October 29, 2014, Mubi, the second largest city in Adamawa State and the commercial nerve centre of the State, was overrun by the Boko Haram insurgents. Before Mubi was taken over by the rampaging terrorists, Michika and Madagali local governments have been under the grip of the extremist Islamic sect since July this year.

The situation is one that will leave any concerned Nigerian truly worried given its far-reaching implication. Indeed, it came as a rude shock to young optician, Mr. Olamide Oladayo, when he learned of the alarming influx of Nigerians with eye defects into the neighbouring Benin Republic and other African countries due to the outrageous fees charged for eye surgery in their country, Nigeria.