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.
From the entrance to the ‘Regatta Village’ on the old Queen’s Drive in Ikoyi, the waterfront took a new dimension under the hot sun on Easter Sunday with the creeks around Lagos Island, Ikoyi, and Victoria Island submerged in different colours.
Her intention was to finish her service last year, (2011), go back to her state and wait for what the future has in stock for her to unfold. Unlike most other corps members, especially from the Southern part of the country, Ine Edet Anwana, a corps member of Batch A 2011, said she was not in any way scared when she received her call-up letter that confirmed her posting to Niger State.
They were said to have gathered for a church vigil to mark the climax of Easter which is the resurrection of Jesus Christ and his victory over death. But they had instead met their untimely death in a rather bizarre tragedy when the building of St Robert Catholic Church, Adamgbe, in Vandeikya Local Government Area of Benue State caved in, leaving no fewer than 22 persons dead, with 35 others in critical condition.
How often do you buy edible items on the road side especially around some popular markets like Agege, ketu, Ojota, Mushin and Iyana-Ipaja areas of Lagos State? You need to be careful as you might have unknowingly subscribe to expired or substandard products from some dump sites in the State especially Olusosun landfill in Oregun, Lagos.
…as touts take over passport office in Ikoyi.
Welcome sir, do you need passport?” “Do you need information?” “I can help you get it o.” These are some of the things you will hear as you get to the passport office in Ikoyi, Lagos. A visit to the Passport office is like a visit to the market where you are confronted by sellers who invite you to come and buy their wares.
It was actually a day for tears and mourning for the management of the Federal Polytechnic Bauchi when one of its dedicated and hardworking staff was killed in a motor accident, just a few metres away from the polytechnic premises.
WHEN residents of Amuwo-Odofin Newtown, Mile 2 Estate Lagos, discovered in 2009 that tractors had been mobilised for the reconstruction of the only major road that passes through their estate, they heaved a sigh of relief.
