YELLOW Buses said it hopes for better infrastructure on Bournemouth s Westover Road following an incident in which a wheelchair user was denied access to a bus due to a low kerb. The individual was attempting to use the ramp to get onto a bus one evening last week, but because the kerb seemed to be lower where the bus had stopped it meant he could not board. This resulted in the gradient of the ramp being too steep for the person to access the bus and he had to try to find an alternative bus, with Yellow Buses hoping for better infrastructure as a result of the incident.
By Eddy Odivwri
Our former Lagos State correspondent, Kola Ologbodiyan, the present National Publicity Secretary, of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), in those days, would come back to the newsroom and regale us with stories of what they (the Alausa correspondents), did the previous night with the then Military Administrator, Col Buba Marwa (as he then was), who is now the Chairman of the Nigerian Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA). He (Kola) would tell us how the MILAD would go with the Correspondents into the Lagos city, at a very ungodly hour of the night, driving through various parts of the city, notoriously labelled as “black spots”. That Marwa, would always be armed with a Jotter, where he notes bad spots that require maintenance, areas where there should be more security presence etc., adding that on a number of occasions they would run into a gang of bad boys who get promptly disarmed and arrested. Over time, that routine drive around, enabled the MILAD not only to h
IT MIGHT still be six months until even the early stages of the festive season but council chiefs have confirmed when the spectacular Christmas Tree Wonderland will return in Bournemouth. Uncertainty around the situation with the pandemic and ultimately the second wave of Covid cases put pay to last year s town centre event. BCP Council called off the 2020 wonderland in early September and the local authority pulled the plug on a scaled down Christmas Market, which was due to be run by Seventa Events, in November. However, it has now been confirmed that plans are pressing ahead for the popular festive extravaganza to come back with a bang.