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.

Their wine and butter coloured uniform has become so well known that they are not easily mistaken at the various bus-stops and traffic-prone spots where they are deployed to ensure there is a free flow of traffic.