Able-bodied and disabled women from different religious and ethnic backgrounds in Plateau State gathered in Jos, the State capital, to brainstorm on ways of improving on the prevailing fragile peace in the State.

Residents of Abakaliki, the Ebonyi State capital, are presently alarmed at the growing heaps of refuse at strategic locations in the metropolis. In fact, there has been fear that an epidemic could break out on account of this, a reason for which last saturday, corps members numbering over 300 stormed Goddy Ogbaga Avenue, Abakaliki to evacuate refuse from different dump sites there.

THE Lagos State Building Control Agency, LASBCA, has raised an alarm over what it described as the poor state of buildings in Police barracks in the state

Let me now at this point specially appreciate three of the awardees: the taxi driver, Mr. Ime Usuah, the traffic warden, Cpl Solomon Dauda, and the steward, Mr. Michael Isaac Onuh, and ask that they should step forward and come to the stage. I read a story in The Vanguard on Sunday yesterday in which Michael Isaac Onuh was described as a pauper in the State House.

THE National Union of Teachers, NUT Lagos State, has raised an alarm over shortage of qualified English language and Mathematics teachers in state owned secondary schools.