Governor Babatunde Fashola (SAN) of Lagos State, has said the state government will not be derailed from its set goals for the people, in spite of the daunting problems facing the nation.

IN the beginning: THE precarious security situation in the country assumed a frightening dimension on March 2, 2013, when a serving Commissioner of Police, Chinwike Asadu was gruesomely killed by gun men in Enugu. The Police boss who was in-charge of Kwara State was in the city en route to Port Harcourt for the annual police games when he was brutally shot to death in front of his private residence.

FOURTEEN years after the gruesome murder of Zaki Iyordye Akaahena, a renowned paramount ruler in Guma Local Government Area of Benue State alongside his two sons who were allegedly beheaded by rampaging Fulani herdsmen in 1989, over 3,000 lives have been lost to the unending bitter fight.

By Emma Nnadozie & Chinenye Ozor POSTING to Enugu: So far so good, I came to Enugu state and met a crop of officers that are dedicated to their duty. I met officers that understand the terrain, I met officers that knew the nooks and crannies of the state. I came and met a state […]

Shebi when some people say most of these crises in Nigeria are being championed by foreigners, we shout them down. I think they are being vindicated somehow,” said Jane this Tuesday evening as the commuter bus made its way through traffic on the Apapa-Oshodi Expressway occasioned by the weekly Aswani market.

BARELY a month after the Federal and Lagos state governments unveiled the Iju-Ishaga arcade in memory of the victims of the ill-fated Dana flight, those familiar with the flight 086 memorial Arcade, Itoikin Town, Ejirin axis of Lagos, weep over the sorry state of the monument erected in honour of the victims of the ill-fated ADC aircraft Boeing 727-231, on November 7, 1996.

The military and their operations, especially when drafted to a place to restore order, are often associated with a no-nonsense attitude to depict the seriousness of their mission. Thus, it is usual to see road blocks and other security bulwarks in the effort to restore law and order.

Minister of Environment Mrs. Hadiza Ibrahim Mailafia has disclosed that 43.3 per cent of the total land area of the country is prone to desertification hence, there is need to protect the resource based ecosystem.

On June 5, 2013, the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Pollution Mitigation, SETPOM, joined the rest of the world to celebrate the 2013 World Environmental Day, WED, at the University of Lagos with a public lecture. The theme for this year’s WED was “Think, Eat, Save.”

A religious group, Community of Sant’Egidio has described the killing by hanging of four criminals on death row in Benin Prison recently a brutal return to the use of the death penalty in Nigeria which had been put on hold for more than seven years. The group, therefore, called on the Nigerian government to suspend all executions immediately with a view to re-establish the moratorium on executions in the country.