Speaking of vision, a thick, black smoke enveloped the air in the afternoon of last week Wednesday reducing visibility and making it almost ‘dark at noon.’ I was scared as thicker and darker smoke billowed. It seemed so close to home that I thought one of the factories next to ours had caught fire. I felt I needed to do something in case of eventualities but the sheer magnitude of the smoke made me feel helpless. So there was I, petrified and fidgety, until a worker told me it was not as near as I thought and was sure the authorities would have been aware because of the scale of the fire. It turned out to be true, but it was cold comfort at the time. Olusosun, one of the dumpsites of the Lagos State Government was on fire. On a good day, this site is less than five minute drive from my office in Oregun and just a few hundred meters by air. My worries were therefore not entirely unfounded.

More U.S. oil hitting the market, even if staggered over time, would just add more barrels to an already overloaded market, potentially making life tougher for big oil producers

But committing suicide for whatever reason has never and will never be an option. Recently a housewife in Ughelli, Delta State, allegedly committed suicide because her husband brought a lover home

It won’t be out of place therefore to say that such government’s negligence is also responsible for the prevalence, these days in our society, of such dreaded diseases

Whoever killed the study of History in our schools has succeeded in distancing the younger generation from events surrounding their existence