A RECENTLY proposed ban on the sale and consumption of hides and skin popularly known as Pomo appears to have unsettled traders and consumers of the product who have vowed to resist any move to outlaw their cherished delicacy.

After several campaigns by Vanguard to draw the attention of the Lagos State Government to the deplorable state of the road which links the popular ghetto community, Ajegunle to the ever-busy Oshodi/Apapa expressway, residents, Sunday, heaved sigh of relief as construction giant, Julius Berger, JB, Plc commenced repairs on the road. The road was abandoned for at least 14 years.

Able-bodied and disabled women from different religious and ethnic backgrounds in Plateau State gathered in Jos, the State capital, to brainstorm on ways of improving on the prevailing fragile peace in the State.

Residents of Abakaliki, the Ebonyi State capital, are presently alarmed at the growing heaps of refuse at strategic locations in the metropolis. In fact, there has been fear that an epidemic could break out on account of this, a reason for which last saturday, corps members numbering over 300 stormed Goddy Ogbaga Avenue, Abakaliki to evacuate refuse from different dump sites there.

THE Lagos State Building Control Agency, LASBCA, has raised an alarm over what it described as the poor state of buildings in Police barracks in the state