Oduyoye says he lost his lovely wife in Lagos State University Teaching Hospital, LUTH, as a result of his inability to pay the N1.382, 700 hospital bill. Folake Oduyoye, 35, was admitted September 17 following complications from a caesarian section carried out on her in a private hospital. After a couple of weeks in LUTH, she was discharged but unable to go home because of her husband’s inability to pay the bill. She was detained and within the period developed other complications.

UGHELLI—THE Host Communities of Nigeria Producing Oil and Gas (HOSTCOM), Urhobo ethnic nationality chapter, Delta State, staged a cautionary protest to the Utorogun Gas Plant, hosted by Otor-Udu, Otughievwen and Iwhrekan in Udu and Ughelli South Local Government Areas of the state, last week, to draw attention of the Nigerian Petroleum Development Company, NDPC, operator of the plant, to their lingering demands.

Yenagoa—THE dumbfounding demand for sand for construction work and land filling in the predominantly riverine Bayelsa State is threatening the existence of communities, along the rivers, creeks and rivulets, across the state due to the jumbled quarrying for sand. Niger Delta Voice investigations revealed that prior to the invasion of the rivers and creeks by the sand merchants with their hi-tech foreign built dredgers and locally fabricated dredgers, many of the communities were troubled by marine erosion.

CONTROVERSY has continued to trail water supply as organized Labour had condemned what it called planned privatization of water supply by the Lagos State Government, threatening industrial action among others to force the state government to abandon its plan.

LAGOS State has recorded at least 417 fire incidents and other emergencies in the first two months of 2015, destroying property worth billions of Naira. Vanguard gathered that the Lagos State Fire Service has responded to 10 fire disasters within the first eight days of March. This came barely a week after the National Emergency Management Agency, NEMA said that 1,064 persons were displaced by major fire disasters recorded in Lagos.

NOISE from traffic, public address systems and loud music are gradually becoming the primary sources of noise contamination and pollution in Lagos with the attendant hearing problems and health issues. The Lagos State Environmental Protection Agency (LASEPA) General Manager, Mr Adebola Shabi, recently disclosed that the agency receives an average of 10 to 15 petitions on noise pollution daily.

The Igbobi College, Yaba in Lagos was a beehive of activities last weekend. At noon, many distinguished men in long flown agbada from virtually all works of life besieged the school premises.

Without ever knowing or meeting me, Buhari gave me a chance. As I now write, I have never met him one-on-one. We have never spoken to each other. It is an extraordinary experience of an unusual man.

It all began in Imo where Jonathan’s campaign train had stopped over last Saturday. Thereafter, I trailed the campaign train to Sokoto. All this afforded me the opportunity to have a personal feel of the campaigns.

It may have been long coming but it’s a denouement now. I really hope so. It surfaced in traces publicly at the Lagos rally and acquired an unrestrained exuberance at the Enugu rally. The president is free from something. The fight was not expected to go the long haul , decisive knockdowns were to have been achieved leaving the ritual of an election a mere formality .