If there is anything to remember in the on-going indefinite industrial action embarked upon by the Lagos State doctors, then, it is the untold hardship that it has brought to the lives of many Lagosians especially those who have been denied entrance into the hospital premises.
Now resettled in an upscale section of Abuja, Mrs. Yemisi Adeyemi could well have forgotten or chosen to ignore the image of the suffering widows she regularly encountered in Ilorin, Kwara State not too long ago. But she didn’t. Mrs. Adeyemi through her Mannah Dew Charity Foundation earlier this month presented deep freezers and grinding machines to 45 widows in Ilorin, as her own contribution towards ameliorating the pains of the widows.
On 26th of August, 2011, a suicide bomber drove a bomb-laden car into the United Nations building in Nigeria’s Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Abuja, shattering the peace, lives and dreams of those unlucky to be within the building at the time.
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Wife opens up: ‘My hubby used hot iron, screw driver to burn me’
For 36 year-old Mrs Mercy Nnamdi, the woman whose one-year-old son was allegedly killed by her husband recently in Ago, Okota area of Lagos, over her husband’s allegation that she was sleeping with his father, life could never have been more cruel.
If only he had listened to the plea of his wife after returning from an all night wake keep that he should retire to bed for some rest, perhaps the tragic shooting that claimed his life would have been averted and his heart broken wife would not have been turned into a widow at her young age and left to cater for their six old child.
THE sleepy farming community of Urum in Awka North local government area of Anambra State was thrown into confusion last week when the people woke up to hear the terrible incident of the death of four persons, including a 95 –year old man in their rooms as a result of suspected fumes from a generating set.
In 1980, Mr Micheal Osagiede, a 54 year old man from Edo state traveled to the United States of America to seek
for greener pastures and returned for the first time in Nigeria in 2006 after spending 26 years in the US. However, his problem started when he met some friends in a bar in Benin City.
To Ademola Ibirogba, 32, life is full of mystery. The story of his life started when he had to drop out of school because there was no financial support from his family side.
Yesterday, the Vice President of the Nigerian Labour Congress, Comrade Issa Aremu visited some of the severely injured victims of last Sunday Esther bomb blast that happened in Kaduna. The explosion killed an estimated 36 people and left 16 with grave injuries. Most affected were commercial motorcycle riders.
Senator Rowland Stephen Owie is the former Chief Whip of the Senate, and a chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Edo State. But for this piece, that is an aside. In this interview with Sunday Vanguard, he discloses that as the only surviving son of his mother, he belonged to different secret cults in order to survive. He possessed powers capable of destroying his opponents and as a result nobody dared him.
It was, indeed, a moment of mourning for staff and members of Nigerian Union of Local Government Employees, NULGE, Lagos State chapter, who lost a colleague, a staffer of Odiolowo/Ojuwoye Local Government Council Development, LCDA, in tragic circumstances, on Wednesday, March 28.
The popular Tiv yam market, in Alaba Rago, along the Badagry expressway, Lagos is always a beehive of activities. In the day time, business activities thrive, with traders from different parts of the country shopping. At night, commercial sex workers cluster around to compete for male customers.
The sheer number of people in need of eye surgery was staggering. For many of them, loss of sight simply crept in upon them in their waking moments while a good number had been nursing it for years.
…Varsity student who visited WAEC to collect result crushed inside elevator
Fatai Olamilekan Odeniyi, an undergraduate of Lagos State University LASU, had dreamt of so many things in his life, part of which was to take care of his aged parents and a shoulder, which his family members will lean on.
