In major cities and towns across the country, villages strategically located along highways, there are up to more than 3000 motor parks and joints in which travellers eat, drink and smoke without mandatory closing time, from morning through the night till day break.

Observing from a distance, one can not quantify the large number of young men and women alike converging in motor parks with the aim of traveling very early in the morning and most times late at night. Saturday Vanguard did a close up on Maza-Maza motor park in Lagos recently.

This is the third and concluiding part of this piece. The second part was published Monday.

THE damage to the accountancy profession in Nigeria was colossal. Subsequently, at the international level serious doubts were being raised about the quality of accounts emanating from Nigeria. To my mind, no purpose is served by being in denial, without going through the rigorous exercise of separating perception from reality.

IT is all over the internet that the President of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria, ICAN, has called on the President of Nigeria and Commander-In-Chief of the Armed Forces, Dr Goodluck Jonathan, to declare a state of emergency over the accountancy profession in Nigeria. It is a bombshell!! It has some viral.

What will be the consequences of President Barack Obama’s failure to get the needed domestic and international support to punish Syria’s President Bashar Assad for gassing his own citizens with serum and other deadly chemicals? That is the million dollar poser before Americans and the global community who are watching the outpouring of emotions on both sides for and against the impending military strike on Damascus.