The re-elected chairman of Ejigbo Local Council Development Area, Lagos state, Mr. Kehinde Bamigbetan has stressed the importance of prayer in every area of endeavour, saying it is the key to success of any government.

Mushin, one of the thickly populated and highly commercialised communities in Lagos, is often in the news, in most cases for the wrong reasons. This is because it is said to be notorious for harbouring crime and criminals, apart from it being prone to frequent outbreak of violence.

Days after the Nasco Building located at No. 29 Burma Street, Apapa, in Apapa Local Government Area, Lagos was gutted by fire, speculations remain rife as to the actual cause of the inferno which destroyed properties and documents worth billions of naira.

Renowned writer, emeritus Prof. J.P. Clark; the first woman Vice-Chancellor in Nigeria, Prof. Grace Alele-Williams; entertainment guru and governorship aspirant, Mr Ben Murray-Bruce; renowned journalist and Publisher of Vanguard Newspapers, Mr Sam Amuka; former Niger-Development Commission, NDDC, Executive Director, Pastor Power Ziakede Aginighan and frontline Niger-Delta activist, Ms Ann Kio-Briggs were some of the notable faces at the just-concluded fourth biennial convention of the National Association of Ijaw Female Students, NAIFS, held at the National Theatre, Iganmu Lagos at the weekend.

APART from Libya where an all female soldiers were said to have provided security for slain Libyan leader, Col. Muammar Gaddafi, in Edo State, it has become a common sight by commuters seeing female drivers at the State owned Edo Intra–City bus, otherwise known as the “COMRADE BUS”. The female bus drivers, 20 in number, were among the 59 that were trained for three months by the Federal Road Safety Corps, FRSC.