What would push a man into an action that will inflict severe pain or even endanger the life of his own child? Which sensible or a normal father will readily take up a whip to flog a child that is only 14 months old? A child that can barely talk? These are some of the questions now begging for answers following the petition of a housewife who brought her husband before the Bauchi State Shariah Commission.

IT is longer news that those recently paraded as members of a child trafficking syndicate at the Lagos State Police Command, Ikeja, were arraigned at the Apapa Family court on Thursday, May 30, 2013.

FOR the past few days, Adigun Street in the Ikeja area of Lagos has become a Mecca of sorts as people throng the place to mourn with the family of the departed President-General, Association of Nigerian Market Women and Men, Alhaja Abibatu Mogaji, who died last Saturday at the age of 96.

Commuters and motorists plying the Oshodi-Wharf/Apapa route are presently struggling to come to terms with the jolting, albeit shocking, reality that the suffering and pains now associated with the worsening traffic jam along the Mile Two/Berger axis of the expressway may continue for a long time to come. Since the traffic ordeal began over three weeks ago, there has not been any respite in sight as road users are greeted with a worse version of the problem each new day.

WHEN the Plateau State Government banned the operation of commercial motorcycles, otherwise known as Okada, in the Jos-Bukuru metropolis sometime back, there were mixed reactions to the ban. While there are those who felt the ban would compound the difficulty of commuters who had depended on them for ease of movement, many other residents heaved a sigh of relief for various reasons, principal among which was because of the negative use to which the bikes were being put by criminals and miscreants.