WITH the April general elections around the corner, the Police High Command in Lagos has assured that its men would not be allowed to use lethal weapons at the various polling stations across the country. It said the move was to guard against what it described as ‘accidental discharge’ and ensure casualty-free elections

IN 2007, when Chinedu Uzoma, moved into his new apartment in a remote part of Kirikiri Town Lagos, he had no reasons to regret, given the existing security and the cozy nature of the area.

The name Kirikiri rings bell; it is the community that houses the dreaded Kirikiri maximum security prison. But some residents of the community who are not docked behind bars, say they have become endangered species, staying in an environment akin to living in the prison yard

Against the back drop of the worsening traffic and environmental condition of Kirikiri town and its environs, the Petroleum Tankers Drivers, PTD, branch of the National Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers, NUPENG, has exonerated its members from blame

Tragedy struck Monday in the sparsely populated new Kpansia layout of Yenagoa the Bayelsa State capital as a family of three was sent to their untimely grave by fume from a generator plant.

When social scientists say for every action there is a reaction or when James Hardly Chase wrote There’s Always a Price Tag several years ago, they might not have had Jos, the Plateau State Capital in mind. However

THERE have been several cases of kidnapping across the country in recent time. These range from the kidnapping of expatriates, business moguls, bankers and even school children and members of the Fourth Estate of the Realm.

Tragedy struck again at the Ojota area of Lagos State in the early hours of yesterday, when an articulated truck carrying a container fell on a Hyundai Jeep crushing the sole occupant to death.

TWO days after the Monday, January 31 murder of Mrs. Nonye Doris Okere allegedly by a policeman at Mpape, Abuja, the Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Mr. Hafiz Ringim, directed that a criminal suit be instituted against the suspect.

Olufemi Akintola is a system engineer in one of the leading oil companies situated in the Lekki area of Lagos. He is one of the thousands of Lagos commuters who are abandoning stressful road transportation for the more comfortable boats. He lives in Ikorodu, from where he goes to work daily. Until recently, he was among the thousands of Ikorodu residents spending endless hours in the heavy traffic congestion on the Lagos-Ikorodu road.

On March 1, 2011, a group of Nigerians, imbued by a common desire for change in Nigeria will begin a walk, an awareness walk from Lagos, through the bushes, intra and inter city roads to their destination of Abuja. The 30 or 40 individuals, individuals who are bound by the same commitment to change the way we are, and transforming our individual selves into selfless and self-sacrificing loyal citizens of a human civilisation are members of One Voice Mission, a non-profit, non-religious and non political organisation registered in 2009.

NONE of the victims saw it coming that sunny afternoon. The Liberation Stadium, venue of the Peoples Democratic Party’s presidential campaign rally for the South South region, was filled to capacity. A stone hurled into the arena would probably have landed on somebody’s head because every available space in the arena was literally taken over by humans

Any first time visitor to Oke-Alo Estate, off Gbagada, in Kosofe Local Government Area of Lagos, will never fail to marvel at the magnificent buildings and exotic cars driving in and out of the estate. But like the title of a popular soap opera, the rich also cry as residents of the estate are presently lamenting over the imminent danger of their houses sinking, except urgent measures are taken to check the development.

Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babatunde Raji Fashola will on Friday, commission the ultra-modern Gbaja shopping mall located in the Surulere area of Lagos

NO fewer than 20 victims of kerosene explosion were on admission at different hospitals in Rivers State at the time of writing this piece. Some of them that could speak told the story of how they found themselves in the hospital when a team from the Department of Petroleum Resources, Port Harcourt unit visited them. A common trend in their story was that they got the killer kerosene from the road side