Six members of a family, Saturday, died of suspected food poisoning at Eziama Uli,Ihiala Local Government Area of Anambra state.
An apartment on a storey building at 12 Jemtok Avenue, Okota Lagos, Saturday morning is reported to be on fire.
According to citizen Daniel, the source of the fire was not yet confirmed as at the time of this report, but occupants of the building and other sypathisers are batling to put out the fire.
Commuters have been reported stuck for hours, Friday, in an ongoing massive traffic gridlock on Apapa-Oshodi expressway.
By John Abayomi, Deputy Online Editor
Life in Lagos, Nigeria’s largest commercial centre is gradually returning to normal after Sunday’s heavy downpour and flooding that has rendered many homeless , property destroyed as death toll rises to 25.
Below are pictures by Lagosians in our citizen report initiative.
Submerged park at Ogudu, by Diala-Uka Chike
…flooding at Bariga, [...]
After yesterday’s heavy rainfall, that left most parts of Lagos flooded, with commercial and vehicular activities paralysed, Lagosians have continued to send photos of the flood in their neighbourhood to Vanguard Online in our citizen reports initiative.
Lagos witnessed an unusual heavy downpour that started in the early hours of Sunday, causing massive floods in parts of the city.
According to reports by citizen George Inyang of Amuwo-Odofin, Simon of Ijesha, Surulere and Nelson of Dolphin Estate, most areas in the city were flooded with some houses almost submerged while the roads and drainages are locked down with traffic gridlock on the roads.
Two suspected robbers were burnt to death, Thursday, by a mob, made up of commercial motor cyclists, popularly called okada riders along Airport Road Effurun, Warri.
Many people were feared dead as a building collapsed at Mararaba, a boundary town between Abuja, the federal capital territory and Nasarawa state.
A Nigerian church, the Universal Kingdom of God’s Church , Yoff road Dakar, Senegal, was Sunday, attacked by suspected Muslim youths in the area.
The traffic situation in Lagos seems to have defiled solutions.
What do you say of a traffic jam by 6am on the Lekki-Ajah area of Lagos.
A commercial motorcyclist popularly called okada, Sunday, knocked down a young man at Iba, along Badagry road in Lagos.
TRAGEDY struck in Enugu and Oyo states yesterday as 46 persons died in separate auto accidents. Among the deceased were four discharged members of the National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, who were returning to their homes after the national service.
Daily, reports abound on how lots of innocent lives have been lost through these otherwise preventable [...]
A total of 1, 493, 603 candidates who registered for the 2011 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME, will be sitting for the examination across the country today.
However, Vanguard gathered that due to acute shortage of spaces, only about 20 per cent of qualified candidates will be offered admission, into the about 117 universities in the [...]
Early this morning, we woke up to the news that kerosene was now available at the NNPC mega station at the Federal Low Cost Housing estate, North Bank, Makurdi , Benue state.
When I got there, I met a long queue. But I was happy that atleast kerosene is now available though, not at the government approved price of N5o/litre, It [...]
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