Human Angle

A lady born with sickle cell anaemia, Popoola Temitope, who is presently struggling to walk and living in pains needs urgent assistance from well-meaning Nigerians, government and the corporate society to help raise the sum of N5 million so that she could undergo a re-corrective surgery in India.

EKPENE IBIABONG—THE economic slump is taking its toll on residents, particularly children, who appear half-starved at the rustic Ekpene Ibiabong community, Odukpani Local Government Area, Cross River state, investigations by NDV has revealed. Most of the children sighted by NDV looked underfed with protruding tummies, white eyes and red hair, as if they are suffering Kwashiorkor.

He fought for the glory of nation and was unshakable in his steely resolve to retain the territorial integrity of Nigeria – a price that came with the sacrifice of his life in the line of duty

J.I.C’s mother, was Remilekun Alice Taylor (Nee Williams) and was thus, a first cousin, through his mother, to the Late Chief F.R.A Williams, another legal titan and contemporary at the Bar.

CALABAR—EIGHTY-TWO years old Papa Okon Etim, who has spent half a century of his life in pool betting and forecasting at Calabar, Cross- River State, said that he tossed away the money he made from the tricky business in his ambition to make more, moaning that at the twilight of his life, he has nothing to show.

It was around 6am on a Sunday morning of January 27th, 2013 and the Harmattan wind was blisteringly cold and rash, Yarbung villagers recalled. The body of police corporal Mathew Jacob, 31, lay in a coffin at his grandfather’s (Pa Gajere) compound in Yarbung, a normal farming community in Kachia Local Government Area, LGA of Kaduna state.

Danfo Bus, a commercial mini bus painted in yellow with two black stripes at the side, is one of the realities that make Lagos notorious. Lagos can not do without it in a day as it conveys thousands of commuters within the metropolis. It is also a means of survival for the owner, the driver and the conductor. It is not out of place to see a danfo bus at a bus stop with the conductor shouting on top of his voice, “Ojuelegba, Ojuelegba straight, enter with your change oh, I no get change oh!”

Hundreds died; survivors report climbing from among heaps of bodies when the soldiers finally left hours later