The serene but sprawling land of Papalanto in the ancestral Owu kingdom, Abeokuta in Ogun State, was thrown into joy and great excitement recently when the GPC Energy and Logistics company in the area showed love and presented some palliatives to the people to cushion the effect of the ongoing lockdown occasioned by the ravaging coronavirus.

Two persons were on Friday confirmed dead, while seven others sustained injuries in an accident, involving a truck, three other vehicles and three motorcycles along Toll-Gate, Sango- Ota, in Ado Odo/Ota local government area of Ogun State.

Former Education Minister, Olorogun Kenneth Gbagi, is well known in Nigeria’s political, legal and investment circles and remains fearlessly assertive in whatever he believes in.

I had this irresistible urge to go out on Tuesday that was quite unlike me. The ease in lockdown was just a day old and the normal me would have skipped the week just to test the waters. I tried to justify this itch by rationalising that I had been on personal lockdown long before the official one.

Richard Owubokiri is one of  the most iconic names in Nigerian football. ‘Ricky’ began his professional football career at Sharks FC but not before doing extraordinary things at the football team of the famed Okrika Grammar School in Rivers State.