AN end to the lingering face-off between the Federal Government and the Lagos State government over the 37 Local Council Development Areas (LCDAs) in the state may not be in sight as the Federal Government came hard on the Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babatunde Fashola, when it described the action of the Governor on the creation of the LCDAs as not only mischievous but also as an attempt to distract the central government from implementing its Seven-Point agenda.

Fresh crisis looms in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State capital, as the Ijaw Youth Council (IYC) Worldwide, Central Zone has given the Hausa community in the state 72 hours to produce the man that killed a mother and daughter last month in the capital city.

FRONT for Ijaw Survival and Hope (FISH) has said the brand of amnesty proclaimed for militants by President Umaru Yar’Adua is insulting and markedly different from what Ijaw and Niger-Delta leaders requested from the Federal Government for freedom fighters.

And so while there was a reduced incidence of domestic armed robbery, carnage on the roads had increased, robbers had become more sophisticated and were going for the banks, the ritual kidnap and murder phenomena had escalated and the area boy clique had grown and become an establishment.

The bane of our educational system is that pupils and students study to pass examinations and not learning to understand and apply knowledge practically and productively. Many people think that they study so they can pass a test. But that is not what learning is about.