THE birth of a new child is usually an occasion for celebrations but for the family of Ahmadu Didda, a peasant farmer from Dunomari village in Zaki Local Government Area of Bauchi State, the arrival of a very strange baby girl on January 13, 2012, was greeted with sorrow.
The birth of a new child is usually an occasion for celebrations but for the family of Ahmadu Didda, a peasant farmer from Dunomari village in Zaki Local Government Area of Bauchi State, the arrival of a very strange baby girl on January 13, 2012, was greeted with sorrow.
If anybody had told “Baba”,a mechanic with the LAGBUS Management Authority that death was lurking around that fateful Wednesday, January 25, 2012, he would have waved it aside as the machination of his enemies. Baba, as he was fondly called by his colleagues at LAGBUS, was killed by the stationary bus he was trying to put in order.
Just as residents of Yenegoa, the Bayelsa State capital were trying to put behind them the near catastrophe that jolted the capital city, when Tombia bridge was bombed, a more audacious attack was launched on the riverside Olugbobiri community in the Southern Ijaw council area by unknown armed gunmen who bombed a section of the country home of ex -militant leader, Mr. Africa Ukpariasa, popularly known as Gen Africa.
Despite the clampdown on street protests, residents of Lekki Peninsula penultimate weekend trooped out to protest what they called imposition of tolls on the Eti-Osa -Lekki express way and the hike in the school fess of Lagos State University, LASU by the State Government.
A MULTIPLE ghastly motor accident involving a truck and six vehicles occurred at Coker bus-stop, along Oshodi/Apapa Expressway, Sunday, claiming three lives including that of a pregnant woman. A commercial motorcyclist popularly called Okada was trapped under the truck for hours while several people were injured.
TODAY marks a decade of the Oke-Afa disaster, an incident which was occasioned by bomb blasts at Ikeja military cantonment. The disaster led to a stampede that claimed many lives and others still missing till today. That fateful evening remains evergreen in the hearts of Nigerians especially Lagosians, more so for those whose relations were involved in the disaster.
ENENCHE Okogwu, the Channels Television journalist, slain in the line of duty last Friday in Kano, was unwavering in his love for the country as encapsulated in his facebook page.
Mr. Azuka Ezemakam lived in Alpha Beach Estate in the highbrow Lekki Peninsula area of Lagos until June last year, when coastal erosion in the once serene neighbourhood forced him to relocate from the estate he had lived in for eight years.
If she had dreamt about it, she would have waved it aside as one of those evil dreams induced by the forces of darkness. Indeed, Mrs. Hamma Abdullahi, a 21- year old mother of three, could not have contemplated becoming a widow very soon in her life.
A FIRE outbreak which occurred on Thursday, January 12, 2012 at Mgbalukwu community in Izzi local government area of Ebonyi State led to the horrific death of four children of a well known school teacher in the locality, Mr. Godwin Nwodom. The midnight inferno also led to the destruction of properties estimated at several millions of Naira.
