THE craze for the collection of N20 at illegal check points by overzealous policemen has caused the untimely death of a 26- year-old promising Dayo Adeola in Akure, the Ondo State capital.

WHY should the teachers allow these children to stand outside the school compound with all these vehicles zooming past? It is dangerous, they could be killed,” noted a passenger by name, Suzanne in the Oshodi-bound commuter bus as he sighted some children in a nearby school standing outside the school gate.

It is no longer news that sometimes , truck drivers , particularly those conveying goods from the Apapa or Tin-can Island ports, are usually attacked by robbers and the goods diverted elsewhere and sold at give -away prices.

CRUSADE against illegal bunkering operations in Rivers State, particularly the Ogoni axis of the state assumed an interesting dimension recently when about 813 illegal bunkers gave up the illicit activity.

I couldn’t believe my eyes last Friday when I went to the market to buy tomatoes and pepper to make some stew,” Eno told her friend, another commuter in the commercial bus.