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DESPITE deteriorating insecurity, snowballing cost of living and rising cases of COVID-19 in Nigeria, many citizens will travel home this Yuletide to reunite with their family for Christmas and New Year festivities. However, two major concerns that will prevent sizeable number of people from travelling are the poor and unsafe state of the nation’s highways. Senior Investigative Reporter, Marcus Fatunmole, examines some flashpoints in the nation’s roads and how motorists and travellers can arrive at their destinations safely. A NUMBER of Nigerian roads have described as “death trap,” “highway to hell,” “Road to Death” among others, not necessarily because of many fatal crashes that occur on them, but because of high rate of abduction and robbery they witness. ....
Punch Newspapers Sections Published 11 December 2020 Edo State is in the news again as kidnappers have found safe haven forests by the sides of highways in some parts of the state, ADEYINKA ADEDIPE writes that many motorists and commuters have fallen into the hands of the evil men Drivers and commuters have continued to face a harrowing experience in the hands of daredevil kidnappers on the Benin-Ekpoma-Auchi Road, which serves as a link between the southern and the northern parts of Nigeria. The last two weeks have witnessed some of the most heartless attacks on unsuspecting members of the public, who are either killed or held captive in the forest for huge ransoms. What is more heart-wrenching is the fact that some of the victims are the downtrodden, who cannot afford the ransoms that the men of the underworld are demanding. ....