Sometime last year, specifically in July, at about 7.30 pm, I heard distressed callfrom under the Bridge close to the Nigeria Brewery, I was not surprised tbecause I knew “the boys” were at their nefarious act again. I was helpless, there was virtually nothing I could do about it because I was not armed.

“Thank God the incident happened at the night, otherwise it would have been more tragic.” This was one of several comments made by road users at Mile 2, Lagos when a fully-loaded truck with Premium Motor Spirit PMS(petrol) suddenly skidded off the turning and crashed into a motor park, resulting in a fire outbreak that killed three persons and burnt 39 vehicles in the process.

BUT for divine intervention, Mr. Umar Abdullahi, a 53-year-old business man and farmer who resides in Jaligo village in Bauchi local government, would have been a dead man; he would have died with nobody to tell what actually led to his death. The good news is that he survived and is alive to tell the story of his near-death experience.

NJEMANZE waterfront has become an escape route for criminals after they dispossess passers by of valuables on roads around the area. The waterfront has also transformed into a market for Indian hemp. All kinds of crime, according to residents in the neighborhood, take place at the waterfront which until about two years ago, was home to many who apparently could not afford the high rent in habitable areas of the state capital.

When Mrs Gloria Ololade Ajibulu woke up on February 3, 2012, little did she know that a brutal attack awaited her.