Babies in the rubble: Inside Lagos’ growing child abandonment crisis
ON a rainy Tuesday morning in Ikeja, sanitation workers made a grim discovery. Tucked inside a carton by a roadside drain was a newborn, still with the umbilical cord attached and wrapped in a thin cloth.
Who’s after policemen in Rivers State?
The above headline question is on several lips at the moment. Indeed, this is a time to be wary if you are a police man in Rivers State. According to the state Police Commissioner, Mr Suleiman Abba, about six police men, including an Inspector, were gunned down and their rifles taken within the last two weeks.
Triple bundles of joy for couple after 8 years of waiting
Mr. and Mrs. Kingsley Amaechi, both native of Orlu in Imo State are in dire need of help.Kingsley, 37, is a cleaner with Eleganza group of companies with a meagre monthly salary of N10,000, while his wife Ijeoma, 34, is a house wife.
Lamentations of robbery victim: Needs financial help to be able to walk again
He is a victim of an armed robbery attack that left many people dead along the Sagamu – Benin expressway five years ago. But Ifechukwu Eze was lucky to be one of the survivors who lived to tell the tale of that scary encounter with men of the underworld.
Residents heave sigh of relief as BRT comes to Mile 2
Residents along the Mile 2 to Badagry route have commended the Lagos Transport Management Authority, LAMATA, for the recent introduction of the Lagos Bus Rapid Transit,BRT system for commuters along the route.
Worker wants Fashola to construct more recreational parks
Mrs Prisca Lawson, a social services manager has urged Governor Babatunde Fashola who was recently sworn in for his second term in office to construct at least four recreation centres in each of the 20 local government areas, LGAs and 37 local council development areas, LDCAs, in the state.
Pastor, security guard in war of words over kidnap of three-year-old child
It was an intriguing drama of buck-passing few days ago in Asaba, the Delta State capital between a Camerounian security guard and a man who claimed to be a Pentecostal pastor.
Aftermath of bomb blast: Survivors groan, mammy market traders count losses
It was a sobering experience for Bauchi State Governor, Isa Yuguda, when he visited the ATBU Teaching Hospital to see some surviving victims of the bomb blast at the 33 Artillery Brigade, Bauchi that claimed the lives of 13 persons, injuring 40 others.
H-E-L-P! I’m finished,cries labourer who lost set of twins, property in mystery fire
IT was indeed a pathetic sight as Vanguard Metro’s team was conducted round the debris of a make-shift structure that once housed a couple and their four children. The couple are presently mourning their twins, aged two and half years, who perished in a mysterious inferno.
From Navy comes succour for spinal cord injury patients
FIFTY-FIVE years ago, the Nigerian Navy, NN, became fully Nigerianised with the statutory responsibility to safeguard the nation’s territorial waters and ensure secured and virile maritime environment
Sad Monday for motorcyclist, loses legs for refusing to give N1000 to police
Monday May 30 turned out to be a day of pain for a motorcyclist who refused to part with N1,000 as requested by a team of policemen at Berger-Under bridge along the Oshodi-Apapa expressway in Lagos. The motorcyclist had his two legs shattered by a truck laden with an unhooked container which ran into him while he was engaged in a shouting match with the policemen over their extortionist demand.
