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Lagos-Abeokuta Expressway: A highway of many issues

Lagos-Abeokuta Expressway: A highway of many issues

Nine months after the completion of the Sango Ota Toll Gate inward Lagos lane of the Lagos-Abeokuta Expressway, ADEYINKA ADENIJI examines road users’ agonies and other issues escalating pain on the long abandoned opposite lane.…

NFF Election: Nigeria football in desperate need of a messiah

NFF Election: Nigeria football in desperate need of a messiah

AJIBADE OLUSESAN writes that the September 30 election of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) may not throw up the right candidate as the president of the NFF if the structural problems in football governance were…

Anambra: Battle with emerging group of junkies

Anambra: Battle with emerging group of junkies

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), over the years have been battling the challenge of drug and other illicit substance use and distribution among a vast number of people across all age brackets, but…

Pipeline protection contract pitches group against Rita-Lori Ogbebor, Asari Dokubo

Pipeline protection contract pitches group against Rita-Lori Ogbebor, Asari Dokubo

The Niger Delta Movement For Radical Change (NDMRC) has rained heavy knocks on Chief (Mrs) Rita-Lori Ogbebor over her position on the N4.5 Billion pipeline contract awarded by the NNPC and the Federal Government to…

Annual Arba’in Symbolic: Shiites from Bauchi, Plateau begin trek

Annual Arba’in Symbolic: Shiites from Bauchi, Plateau begin trek

An Islamic group popularly known as Islamic Movement of Nigeria (Shiites), was scheduled to hold its annual Arbaeen Symbolic Trek, yesterday. Arbaeen is a Shiite annual religious practice usually conducted on 20th Safar of the…

Nigeria’s 20m out-of-school children and Transforming Education Summit, way forward

Nigeria’s 20m out-of-school children and Transforming Education Summit, way forward

In its latest global data on out-ofschool children, UNESCO has put Nigeria’s children figure at an estimated 20 million. UNESCO said in the report that the new and improved methodology it used showed that 244…

Ugly sides to the unending ASUU strike

Ugly sides to the unending ASUU strike

The Nigerian academic system is bleeding, universities across the country have been under lock and key in the last six months owing to the protracted strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) for…

Insecurity: Nigeria at war with terrorists, kidnappers, others

Insecurity: Nigeria at war with terrorists, kidnappers, others

Insecurity has taken hold of the land, the various security agencies seem helpless. From North, West, South and East, the situation is tense, fear is the order of the day. TAIWO JIMOH takes a deeper…

Benin-Ekpoma-Auchi Road: The Bad, the ugly, the deadly

Benin-Ekpoma-Auchi Road: The Bad, the ugly, the deadly

The ever-busy Benin- Ekpoma-Auchi Road in Edo State, a federal road, that links the South South, South East to the northern part of the country has lately become a nightmare owing largely to the terrible…

Lagos Flooding: Working now to avert tomorrow’s danger

Lagos Flooding: Working now to avert tomorrow’s danger

There have been several predictions of the possibility of many coastal cities across the country, including Lagos State, being submerged in water in the very near future if adequate measures are not put in place.…