LAST year, a 10-year-old pupil of All Saints Anglican Primary School, located at Oke Ijebu area of Akure, the Ondo State capital, was mistakenly shot dead by his colleague as he fiddled with a gun he found hidden in the school compound by suspected hoodlums. It was said that the hoodlums had taken advantage of lack of security in the school to hide their “instrument of office” there ahead of their next day operation.

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.

“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.