Faced with prospects of damaging impact of the flooding from Lake Nyos on over 200 communities in Nigeria, the Federal Government as a matter of urgency has approved the construction of a dam in Kassimbilla in Taraba State.

Lagos, the industrial, commercial and economic capital of Nigeria has a complex, often bizaare networks of roads, mostly characterised by deep pot holes, ditches and mini-gulleys that are death traps of road users across the sprawling metropolis.

“Look at these thieves in uniform, is that what they are employed to do?” asked Mr. Babs in a very angry tone as a vehicle belonging to one of the security outfits in Lagos, Kick Against Indiscipline (KAI) drove past in the opposite direction along the Agege – Iju-Ishaga road, carrying some members of the group and laden with so many loaves of bread of different makes and sizes, obviously seized from traders.

Last Wednesday, the nation had to contend with a national strike by the Nigeria Labour Congress ( NLC) and the Trade Union Congress (TUC), over national minimum wage. As usual, interest groups, anxious to be in the good books of the government of the day, made appeals to the labour unions to call off the strike even before it took off.

For Olisa Agbakoba, law is not about making money any more.It is about improving the society.
Well, he can afford it.
In a society where the fog of poverty, need (and even want) have conspired to make those with sight appear blind, it should be consoling that some members of the public would continue to demonstrate a commitment to the Nigerian project in whatever capacity they can.