A POPULAR proverb has it that everyday is pregnant with mysteries which defy human knowledge. This saying played itself out on March 21, 2013 in Yelwa Makaranta Community, a suburb of Bauchi metropolis when two middle aged men lost their lives while working inside a well. The incident threw the entire residents of the community into confusion and mourning.

DUMPSITE management is a unit under Lagos Waste Management Authority, LAWMA. There are three major landfills and two temporary sites serving Lagos residents. The three major landfill sites are Olushosun, at Ojota, Abule Egba, old Alimosho and Solous, Igando.

MRS. Ebobra Newman Ometan, 30 and members of her family comprising three boys and girl had fantastic plans for the Easter holidays until a dark cloud fell upon the hitherto happy family and things fell apart, leaving many unanswered questions.

MOST Nigerians probably never knew that there was the female wing of militants or freedom fighters, as some youths who delved into militancy in the Niger Delta region, preferred to be addressed. Veronica (not her real name) told Vanguard Metro, VM, during her graduation ceremony from the Centre for Creative Arts Education, CREATE run by popular Nollywood actress, Hilda Dokubo, that she was in charge of the armoury in one of the camps.

Northerners who are living in Oyegbemi and Aromire Streets, Ijora Badia area of Lagos state, where two suspected members of Islamic sect, Boko Haram were arrested last week, have stated moving out of the area in batches for fear of been caught in the sectarian quagmire.

Gully erosion is one of the ecological challenges affecting almost all the states in the South-Eastern part of Nigeria. The problem is, however, most pronounced in Anambra and Imo states. For example, at Ezioko Nanka in Anambra State, the deep gully created by erosion measures more than 20 feet.

IT was indeed an amazing sight that stirred up mixed reactions from residents of 7b, Nnorom Street, Ntezi-Aba, Abakaliki at the weekend. The discovery that the 200 years old tree usually worshipped by most of them had fallen without any visible external force left them baffled.

…Lawmakers summon commissioners, PS
BArely two weeks after residents of Ijora-Badia, a slum dwelling within Iganmu Alawo Community in Apapa Iganmu Local Council Development Area, LCDA, were displaced following demolition of their houses, hundreds of structures allegedly built on government’s land in Odoiragunshi Community in Eredo Local council Development Area of Epe, were on Tuesday brought down.

For suspected pipeline vandal, Imeh Etim, 27, only the urgent intervention of the General Overseer of the Deeper Life Bible Church, Pastor William Kumuyi, can rescue him from his present predicament. Ime who said he has been a member of Pastor Kumuyi’s church for the past 13 years wants the cleric to use his good office to save him from an uncertain fate. Imeh was arrested recently with two of his siblings, Bassey, 25 and Effiong, 32 and a family friend, Samuel Christopher, at Ojo area of Lagos during a raid by agents of the anti-vandals department of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC, Lagos State Command, in connection with pipeline vandalism.

Lagos state government, Monday, commenced demolition of illegal structures erected along the drainage channels at the Ladipo Auto spare parts market, Mushin Local Government.

When Sani Tella, an Assistant Superintendent of Police, ASP, attached to the Ebonyi State Police Command, gave free rein to his anger by beating up Dr. Okafor Chukwujiekwu of the Obstetrics and Gynaecologist Department of the Federal Teaching Hospital, Abakaliki, FETHA, he probably did not bargain for the storm his action would engender.

Mrs Mosunmola Ashaye was in a pensive mood that Thursday, as she sat on a sofa, staring at her sympathisers as if one of them would announce the miraculous resurrection of her husband, a retired naval officer. Alas, this was never to be for the father of four, who was slain on Monday February 4, during a gun battle with sea pirates in Bayelsa State in the course of his official duty.

…Say we now sleep under the bridge
Residents of Iganmu Alawo Community in Apapa Iganmu Local Council Development Area, LCDA, obviously did not see it coming. So it came as a rude shock to them when they woke up last weekend to be confronted by bulldozers of the Lagos State Taskforce on Environmental and Special Offences Enforcement Unit. And by the time the operation, which was reminiscent of the Oshodi demolition exercise, was over, the slum settlement which had been home for the residents for years had been reduced to rubbles and they found themselves homeless.

With the intense heat from the sun that Sunday afternoon, it was a big relief around 11pm when residents of Ibadan, Oyo State capital saw the cloud gathering preparatory to the first rain of the year. However, the joy that greeted the change of weather was short-lived. Suddenly, the gentle breeze which gave way to a drizzle later turned into wind and then a destructive storm.

The dream of every parent is to train their children into becoming responsible citizens to care of them at their old age. But this was not to be for the Tyger family of Amassoma in Southern Ijaw Local Government Area of Bayelsa State whose 21-year-old son, Tariebi Tyger, a 200-level petrochemical engineering student of the Niger Delta University was cut down in his prime.

THE recent upsurge in kidnapping in the riverine enclave of Bayelsa State has again brought to the fore the fear in some quarters that the area is being used by some criminal elements to make the area relapse to its past infamy as bastion of violent crime.

A recent train ride shows that the Nigerian railway may crash again even after N3. 7trillion has been spent on it since the Abacha regime.

Though a predominantly civil servants state with no industries where everything revolves around the ‘Creek Haven’, the seat of power in Bayelsa State, Yenagoa, the serene capital city is fast losing its rural outlook.