By Ebele Orakpo & Bose Adebayo Economic activitises were practically grounded in Lagos Wednesday as many offices in the burstling mega city were virtually empty as a result of the heavy downpour that started at about 5.00am in most parts of the state.  Most of the roads were flooded, thus hindering both human and vehicular […]

By Bose Adebayo UNTIL recently, Oshodi was always in the news for the wrong reasons. Its popularity derives from the fact that it is that part of Lagos that is commercially active 24 hours a day,  attracting a large turn out of people on daily basis obviously on account of its  strategic location which makes […]

By Bose Adebayo & Kingsley Adegboye SOME weeks ago, it was one of several potholes which punctuate the entire stretch of the usually traffic-busy Oshodi-Apapa Expressway.

By Bose Adebayo & Fredrick Okopie When the downpour started in the early hours of Thursday, commuters and motorists at the ever-busy Apapa/Oshodi Expressway were prepared for the usual gridlock as such downpour had always resulted in the road being flooded. True to their fear, this was exactly what happened. But then they also underestimated […]

By Kingsley Adegboye Lagos City Hall, the foremost seat of     local government council administration in Nigeria which got burnt some years ago is now wearing a new look. The total reconstruction of the Lagos Island Local Government Secretariat and finishing with the state of the art building materials have transformed the edifice into an […]

By Evelyn Usman Remember  October 22, 2005, Bellview air crash which claimed a total of 117 passengers on board the ill fated Boeing 737-200 air craft? Remember also, that among those whose lives were sent to an unprepared grave by the crash which occurred shortly after take-off that fateful Saturday night, was the Chief Executive […]

By Chioma Obinna When a parent becomes sick and dies,  the child is usually affected in several ways that could leave  him/her traumatised leading to emotional, physical and mental distress that could undermine that child’s overall health and development. Unfortunately, the 2.5 million Nigerian children orphaned by AIDS(excluding the ones in the Niger Delta areas […]

By Bose Adebayo THE young lady was obviously pre-occupied with her thoughts and so did not notice the woman and the powerfully built man approaching her at a rapid pace. She had just crossed the busy expressway and was heading towards a row of commercial  buses presumably to board a bus. She was soon confronted […]

By Chioma Obinna LAGOSIANS  have witnessed many a tragic incident at the popular Cele Bus-stop along the Oshodi – Apapa Express way, but nothing to compare with the gory scene of last Saturday September 26 that has become the latest tale of sorrow, tears and regret in Lagos. For many of those who witnessed the […]

The story of Taiye Ebele Mbakwe (39), a native of Umuleri-Mbakala in Abia State sounds like the rested NTA kiddies show, tales by the moonlight. The father of two who lives at Number 49, Shifau Street, Ojuelegba, Lagos operates an electronic shop in front of his house with his twin brother, Kehinde.

RECENTLY, the Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Mr. Marvel Akpoyibo after a security meeting with the State Executive Council assured Lagos residents that every measure has been put in place to ensure safety of lives and property in the state even in the last quarter of the year popularly dubbed the “ember months”.

……aggrieved neighbors accuse police of cover-up By Ifeanyi Okolie Tears flowed freely last Sunday at Olodi Apapa area of Lagos when a middle-aged man had his eyes plucked off during a brawl with  a couple in their apartment.  The man identified as Cosmos Okoye, a native of Uke in Anambra State was said to have […]

By Bose Adebayo & Evelyn Usman WHEN the white Toyota Camry arrived with its six occupants  and parked in front of the single storey, four-flats building  painted in brown and butter colours,even curious neighbours did not notice anything to excite alarm. Time was about 7.15 a.m. that Sunday when two children from one of the […]

By Olasunkanmi Akoni THIS could be celebration time to some individuals in Ikorodu as they are the lucky beneficiaries of a poverty alleviation gesture by the Lagos State government. As part of efforts to check youth involvement in crimes and other undesirable engagements which has been attributed to poverty resulting from lack of opportunities to […]

By Bose Adebayo A septuagenarian was lying ill in her one-room apartment and refused any attempt by her daughter to take her to hospital for treatment. She said her personal doctor would soon come to give her the necessary treatment at home. She was still speaking when a woman arrived with a basket on her […]