IT was five years in construction. Many traders, including displaced persons from the northern part of the country, were ejected from the former market to make way. Scattered, and having no alternative, the petty traders took their fate with...

ENEMIES of progress; yes, that’s what they are!

Last week, these same enemies tried, without success, to impugn our number one drug control Agency and the good personality of its amiable oga at the top, who is even pushing for a sweet second...

IF an ambulance with a critically ill patient had been stuck in the holdup that ensued, it would not have mattered. A crucial task was ongoing; one of Lagos’ many roads was being repaired. And everything else must wait!

It was at Egbeda, last...

NORMALCY has finally returned to Ajah in Lagos State, two weeks after a communal clash claimed the lives of about six persons and left several others dead.

The clash is reported to have been sparked by a misunderstanding between youths known as...

JIGAWA State might not be as popular as some of its counterparts. Notwithstanding, it is endowed with one of nature’s blessings that attract tourists all the way from Europe.

One of these is the Baturiya Birds’ Sanctuary, which harbours...

TO believe the police or not is one decision residents of Festac Town, Lagos, will have to make.

Following alleged robberies by a gang residents describe as the notorious ‘One Million Boys’, the police say they have made arrests and have also...

THIS is not the best of times for commercial activities around Obio-Akpor Local Government Area of Rivers State; sales have plummeted with closure of the council, following a rift in the state’s chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party.

Council...

THE new airports, that is, the remodeled terminals, are something like a cut-and-nail arrangement; almost like Madam Minister will go to Hausa quarters, assemble masons, carpenters and other artisans and move them to site to work.

Behold, the...

Jang’s three point agenda

 

THE Governor of Plateau state, Jonah Jang, has disclosed that contrary to popular knowledge, he is not a daft old man who does not know his ass from his elbow. To show that he is brilliant and cerebral, Jang has...

THREE weeks after the attention of the Federal Road Maintenance Agency (FERMA), Works Minister, Mike Onolememe, and his Information counterpart, Labaran Maku, was drawn to the deplorable state of the Lagos-Abeokuta Expressway, there is still no...

THE Lagos State government in August 2012 banned the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW), touts (popularly called Agbero) and other unions from collecting money from commuter bus operators in the state.

Commissioner for...

MANY houses in Ezi-Oko community, situated in Oko, Orumba North Local Government Area of Anambra State are in a precarious state, as they are likely to crumble any moment from now due to the threat being posed by the erosion occasioned by an...

WITH effect from June 3, 2013 commercial buses, popularly known as araba, will cease to ply major roads in the Federal Territory. Their operations will be limited to satellite towns and adjourning roads where they are expected to source passengers...

SLUM communities of Itire /Mushin axis of Lagos mainland have been witnessing a new transformation, especially, in the area of infrastructure development. These include provision of drainage facilities, road rehabilitation and construction...