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FOR the past 15 years or thereabout, they have become “kings” of Lagos roads, cruising around without restrictions and often times operating “daringly.”
Within the period, the number of commercial motorcycles in operation on Lagos roads has increased, astronomically, to ridiculous level.
But regrettably, hundreds of Lagos commuters have been sent to their early graves, while several others were forcibly reduced to limping or confined to their homes, as a result of “Okada” accidents on Lagos roads.    
For instance, during the first five months of this year in Lagos, 245 people were reported killed in road accidents involving commercial motorcycles, popularly known as “Okada.”

THE prospect of President Goodluck Jonathan running and winning the 2011 presidential election appears to be on a steady upward course with prominent political big wigs across the country  enlisting into his camp . This is against the initial odd posed by the zoning arrangement of the Peoples Democratic Party(PDP),his platform.This soaring prospect has, perhaps,  sent cold jitters into the camp of General Ibrahim Babangida, Nigeria's former military President and former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar.

AS electioneering process intensifies, a call has gone out to all and sundry to get ready for voting and defending their votes as well.
A fire-brand political group, “Nigerian Youths Coalition Against Electoral Fraud and Violence”, has vowed that never again will the electorate tolerate any form of charade in the forthcoming general elections.
Reeling out their programmes, the group said that massive enlightenment campaign through seminars, rallies, congresses, internet, through facebook and twitters will be avenues required to realize their goals.
Apart from that, the media both print and electronic they also urged them to embark on massive dissemination of information useful to the electorate. In augmenting that, flyers, stickers, T-Shirts and banners should be readily tools available to draw the attention of the compatriots that Nigeria must get it right this time around.

THE people of Delta State residing in overseas have expressed their unalloyed support for the governorship aspiration of Delta State Peoples Democratic (PDP) gubernatorial candidate, Professor Saliba Mukoro, saying the Messiah who would create the expected change in Delta State has come.

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ON several instances, the Lagos State Police Commissioner, Marvel Akpoyibo has warned hoodlums to repent of their evil ways or leave the state. Some may have left, but those who are still hanging on are having a rough time.
National Daily Weekend scooped that this week was a harsh one for five robbers, who met their waterloo on two separate instances within the Lagos metropolis.

REV (Mrs.) Dele George, founder of Little Saints Orphanage is passionate, kind, God fearing and humble. Despite the fact that she was born of wealthy parents, in the last 15 years, she has literally stunned worldly pleasures and riches and pitched her tents with the poor, the rejected, the unloved and uncared for persons in our society
As the first daughter of Dr Samuel Ogbemudia, two time military governor of the old Bendel state, Dele was brought up as a disciplined, and an upright person. She read accountancy at the Ahmadu Bello University in Zaria, Kaduna State. But, propelled by the passion she has for the poor, she dumped her accountancy certificate and began to walk the streets of Lagos, nay Nigeria for rehabilitation
Checks by our correspondent revealed that in the last 15 years, the LSO founder has spent N20 million on the average every month for the feeding, clothing, medication and education of the 1000 children picked up malnourished and in near death situations along bush paths, uncompleted buildings and gutters.

A middle-aged man, Mr. Darlington Chukwu has been sentenced to five and half years imprisonment on a three-count charge of “Impersonation of NAFDAC director,” fraudulent- pretence of extortion and issuance of forged documents to unsuspecting traders.
In a landmark judgment delivered in Calabar, the presiding Chief Magistrate, Adomi Etaba Adomi slammed the jail sentence on the accused person without an option of fine after he pleaded guilty to the three-count charge. Justice Adomi said the conviction of Mr. Chukwu who had extorted huge sums of money from hundreds of innocent Nigerians was to serve as deterrent to other unscrupulous persons parading themselves as NAFDAC officers.

A suburban Dallas man used a thin blade from a safety razor to slit his throat in an apparent suicide attempt Tuesday in the courtroom where a judge had just sentenced him to 40 years in prison.
Marcial Anguiano, 47, of Duncanville, was taken from the Dallas County courthouse on a stretcher with his neck covered in bandages, state District Judge Larry Mitchell said.
Anguiano, who was talking as he was carried out, was hospitalized in stable condition, Dallas County sheriff's spokeswoman Kim Leach said. The blade cut into muscle but did not strike an artery.