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Commuters wait as robbers operate ahead (Sat.16th Aug.2014) The frequent armed robbery operations along Okene-Lokoja road has degenerated into daily operation by dare-devil highway robbers. Report reaching us indicates that in spite of the presence of the Special Anti Robbery Squad (SARS) often sighted along Osara axis of the road, the men of the underworld continue to have a field day. They now operate up to three times in a day unchallenged. Just last week, Guardian Newspaper reported the ordeal of travellers plying Lokoja -Okene road who, according to the report by John Akubo (Lokoja) have sent a distress call to Governor Idris Wada to step up security on Lokoja-Okene road where incessant attacks by armed robbers has become a daily occurrence.  The report said that one of the victims who narrated his ordeal to reporters Mr. Innocent Mbanefo said that he was travelling from Lagos to Abuja when armed robbers numbering about fifteen barricaded the highway at Irepene farm camp along

 By Yusuf Ozi-Usman Yusuf Ozi-Usman It all started on Friday, August 1, like foul wind, when people were making phone calls across the country, to enquire whether it was true that President Goodluck Jonathan was dead. As a matter of fact, to those who were fully in the knowledge of the good health in which President Jonathan was carrying on with official state duties that day, the enquiry or the rumour of his death was qualified to be dismissed, even with lots of laughter. In deed, as at the time phone calls were taking the centre stage on the purported death of President Jonathan, he (the President) was supervising the signing of Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between the federal government and President of Dangote Group, Alhaji Aliko Dangote on $1 Billion (about N160 Billion) rice production project. The signing was done in the Presidential Villa. The same day, President Jonathan also witnessed a book presentation, on Nigeria 100 centenary status as well as,