MATILDA FRANCES Insecurity on Nigerian highways has reached an embarrassing state. It is so bad these days that many are afraid of making inter-state travel for fear of being robbed or kidnapped.Party politicians have unsurprisingly made most of it, playing blame game, and ethnic hatred. [dropcap]H[/dropcap]owever, more than opening talk shops, a permanent and effective…
MATILDA FRANCES [dropcap]A[/dropcap]sking the Nigerian Federal Road Safety Corps to start bearing arms is a way of exposing them to more danger. They’ll become targets to all criminals, including armed robbers. One wonders what volume of brains the propagators of this idea in the nation’s national assembly have got. I am sure they are a…
Motoring World’s editorial director, MATILDA FRANCES takes a satirical look at conduct of certain vehicles used as commercial vehicles in Nigeria… [dropcap]I [/dropcap]know what you are thinking: What are buses and Hemorrhoids doing in the same sentence? It started like this. On one of our many journeys I made from Ekiti State to Lagos State of…
MATILDA FRANCES [dropcap]A[/dropcap]s we review the just concluded year 2016, I remember one story in particular – the cloning of Range Rover Evoque by a Chinese auto company. To be honest, we all know about Chinese goods – cheap, nasty and with a shelf life of two-day old doughnut. If you are going to clone anything,…
