Not long ago the Lagos State Government was more or less forced to declare that it is alive to its responsibility to the people of the state following an alarm raised by residents and motorists on the precarious state of the Igando-Ayobo wooden bridge.

FOURTEEN years after the gruesome murder of Zaki Iyordye Akaahena, a renowned paramount ruler in Guma Local Government Area of Benue State alongside his two sons who were allegedly beheaded by rampaging Fulani herdsmen in 1989, over 3,000 lives have been lost to the unending bitter fight.

The military and their operations, especially when drafted to a place to restore order, are often associated with a no-nonsense attitude to depict the seriousness of their mission. Thus, it is usual to see road blocks and other security bulwarks in the effort to restore law and order.

A religious group, Community of Sant’Egidio has described the killing by hanging of four criminals on death row in Benin Prison recently a brutal return to the use of the death penalty in Nigeria which had been put on hold for more than seven years. The group, therefore, called on the Nigerian government to suspend all executions immediately with a view to re-establish the moratorium on executions in the country.

•103 chairmen head branches, pursue amendment of traffic law…
THOUSANDS of tricycle riders in Lagos State, came under one body at the weekend, setting the stage for an end to years of strife that often left many of their members dead as rival associations repeatedly clashed for supremacy.