“SOMETIME last year, specifically in July, at about 7.30 pm, I heard distress call from under the Bridge close to the Nigeria Breweries Plc. I was not surprised because I knew “the boys” were at their nefarious act again. I was helpless as there was virtually nothing I could do about it, not being armed.

WHILE some people complain of erratic power supply and outrageous bills by the Power Holding Company of Nigeria PHCN, the situation is different in some villages and towns under the Yewa North Local Government Area of Ogun state. No fewer than 53 villages in the densely populated rural community were cut off from the national grid.

RESIDENTS of Aba, the commercial nerve centre of Abia State, have for long resigned themselves to the daily nightmare caused by the deplorable condition of roads in the town and its environs. This is because the problem is one that has defied whatever panacea applied by successive governments in the state.

If Mallam Bala Mohammed Dierba had known that cleaning the well in his compound will lead to the death of three persons, he surely would have changed his mind and dropped the idea. But being human with no ability to see into the future, except by divine revelation, he acted.

Lagos Island is still reeling from fear and disquiet following the violence that erupted there on Monday, February 20, as two rival groups of the National Union of Road Transport Workers, NURTW, battled for supremacy and control of the area.