The federal government of Nigeria this week announced the suspension of mining activities in Zamfara state to check the activities of bandits and criminals who have made the state a by word for impudent criminality.

RESCUERS at the scene of a fatal auto crash at Moniya, Ibadan, Akinyele Local Government area of Oyo State threatened to attack some officials of the Federal Road Safety Corps for allegedly chasing a commercial Micra car until it crashed, leaving one person dead and four others critically injured.

Strip bars are sprouting everywhere.  It’s a cancerous phenomenon.A friend saw the house next door go up for sale. Then the buyer, the new owner,  began a curious renovation. When he was done, he hung  a cryptic sign. The neighborhood resisted the invasion by a putative beer parlor. The  beer parlor resisted the onslaught of anxious neighbours.  The law enforcement agents showed naked lethargy. The patrons of the new investment overwhelmed the moral disgust of the finicky  neighbours. The beer park-our stood.

A certain politician who sees  himself as personifying Lagos, was said to have made a comment years ago, when he was still directly running the state. After a hard day’s job attending to the affairs of Lagos, with its intrigues and power play, this man allegedly got up, stretched his arms and torso before announcing to those in his company that he was tired and wanted to go to bed. Nothing is wrong with that. However, his alleged choice of words did not escape the notice of those in the room and possibly the entire state in its import. ‘Ore Eko. Ekofelo’sun.’ (Lagos is tired. Lagos wants to sleep).

The All Progressive Congress, APC, has lodged an attack against the petition seeking to invalidate the re-election of President Muhammadu Buhari, even as it branded the presidential candidate of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Atiku Abubakar, an alien.