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For long, the Mile-Two Badagry expressway has become a nightmare to both motorists and passers-by. This is because of the terror unleashed on people by criminals who have converted the major road into a haven. These criminals usually attack innocent and helpless commuters in their numbers from 7.30 pm daily.

Ooooh good God, what kind of mess is this? Is this the way we are going to continue to suffer in this area because of one lousy road rehabilitation which the contractor has abandoned for months now. Can someone somewhere do something fast before we all run mad,” complained an apparently angry motorist along the Idimu-Egbeda Road which is presently under rehabilitation.

I smoke Indian hemp and there is this joint there, a lot of smokers gather to smoke during evening hours. It was there I met one Onyekachi who spends lots of money. He buys drink for every body and he dashes lots of money to people. I became loyal to him and he was sending me on errand whenever he comes around. Truly I admire the way he spends money.

He had spent a lot of money planning for the naming ceremony of his son, while his relations in Akure had assured him of their readiness to grace the occasion. But the ceremony later turned to a mourning session when six of his relations became victims of an outbreak of violence.

Traffic along the Ikeja-Oshodi road this Monday morning was unusually light most probably due to the public holidays declared by the Federal Government to mark the 2010 May Day which fell on a Saturday.

Early this year, Imo State Commissioner of Police, Aloysius Okorie took the bull by the horn by instructing all the banks in the state to bring their armoured bullion vans to the state Police headquarters, Owerri.

Whenever you stumble on Dr. Usman Bugaje, you have stumbled on a firebrand politician. This interview should have taken place sometime last December when Bugaje came out strongly against ailing Umaru Musa Yar’Adua, asking him to resign.But because Bugaje combines his love for politics with some academic engagements, he is not always available. Last Easter the interview almost held but a trip out of the country put paid to that. Four weeks ago, the interview almost held in Kaduna but was again aborted at the last minute.Even penultimate weekend, Sunday Vanguard almost ambushed him in Lagos and then Ibadan but it never did materialize.

The assumption that certain jobs are meant for men may not be true as Titilayo Ojo has shown that what a man can do, a woman can do better. Ojo is a 25- year- old Ordinary National Diploma (OND) holder who has found a unique way to earn a living in driving a commercial tricycle (keke Maruwa).

I wasn’t married but I had a girlfriend then. Her Dad asked her to leave me because of my chosen course. We were wanted. Our houses were broken into. My books were carried away. Along came a kind man, who left his flat for us at Lagos Island (Bamgboshe), which now became our house and office. The IBB’s regime raised a propaganda that we were supported by the American Embassy and we were all allies.

THERE seem to be no end to methods used by Nigerians in drug trafficking business to outwit operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) in their illicit drug deals.

While both the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and the Police Special Fraud Unit (SFU) are busy chasing fraudsters all over the country and beyond, the scammers are also busy devising new ways and methods of perpetrating their heinous crimes.

The gun in question does not belong to either of us. It was given to us by the landlord association that employed us and the association has risen to our defense. It had also on several occasions reported cases of the attacks at the Ibafo division .

WHAT would have resulted in a bloody clash between some policemen attached to the Lagos state police command and some army personnel was Tuesday night averted following alleged mounting of illegal check points along the Seme\Badagry road by some uniformed personnel in Badagry and OPS MESAH.

THE use of powerful explosives such as dynamite in settling political scores first reared its head in Bayelsa in 2001 when the state assembly complex was blown up by unknown persons in the wake of the power tussle between the then speaker and now senator and the erstwhile governor of the state.

In 1948, when the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the first international human rights instrument to proclaim that “everyone has the right to life”, only 7 countries had abolished the death penalty. The Declaration proclaims a “right to life” in an absolute fashion, any limitations being only implicit.