TO some Ibadan residents who live at Muslim, Odinjo, Alade Masfala, Adesola in Oluyole and Ona Ara local government areas of Ibadan, it has been a harrowing experience for the past eight years living without power supply. With the exception of a negligible few who can afford generating sets, a larger percentage of people living in the areas have been coping with utter darkness. Their businesses have collapsed with artisans who need electricity for their work moving in droves to other places within the metropolis. Landlords in the area who rely on rents for survival now regret why they spent huge sums of money on buildings that would not yield money for them in return.

Did the death of a couple, Francis and Ann Edeh, along with two others, in an auto crash have some unseen hands behind it or was it just destiny at work. That is the question begging for answer several days after the accident.

The last visit of Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe, the ceremonial president in the first republic, to Zungeru, Niger Delta, his birth place, was on November 16, 1991. It was shortly after a colourful ceremony organised to raise funds to build Zik Centre, located in the town, to mark his 89th birthday. Earlier during the second republic, precisely in 1983, during his political campaign to Zungeru when he was the presidential candidate of Nigeria Peoples Party (NPP), Azikiwe took time off his political schedule to visit his birth place.

Dr Wale Ahmed is Lagos State Commissioner for Special Duties. Ahead of the demolition of some defective buildings at Oke Afa, Isolo, he presented N200,000 each to the occupants to relocate. In this piece, he explains how the state government is assisting victims of emergencies even as he appeals to Lagosians(particularly those in flood prone areas) to relocate because of the anticipated intensity of forthcoming rains.

People may have their different views about the action of the 13-year-old stowaway boy, Daniel Oikhena, but he has become some sort of a super star, going by the attention being paid to him by security agencies and the Edo State government. Daniel, on Saturday, August 24, stowed away in the wheel well of an Arik aircraft from Benin-City to Lagos.