…As Lagos, NRC strategise over menace
IT is a general knowledge that some train passengers from various Lagos terminus through Ikeja, particularly, hang on train cabins to avoid payment of fares. Few unlucky ones had lost their lives in the process while the lucky ones either sustain injuries or got maimed.

Operations at five major oil firms in Kirikiri town, Oriade Local Council Development Council Area, LCDA, of Lagos State, were paralysed penultimate Monday and Tuesday when residents protested against the deplorable state of roads in the community and lack of employment opportunities for its youths.

South-West Zone of National Emergency Management Authority, NEMA, has advised motorists and commuters plying the Ibadan and Gbogan highway both in Oyo and Osun states to exercise caution around Ikire area as flood has taken over a sizeable portion of this road.

By SUSAN EDEH, Bauchi Days after, grief-stricken family members of Mr Yakubu Wakili, a traditional title holder in Alkeleri Local Government Area in Bauchi State, are still trying to come to terms with a most unusual tragedy that befell them recently. Indeed it was a tragedy that threw most residents of the Bayara community, a […]

his is not the best of times for Imo State and its people given the harvest of tragedies recorded in the state recently. The most recent is the ancient ancestral tree that fell in Umudagu, Ihitte Isi Mbieri community, Mbaitoli local council area of the State late Thursday night of May 16, killing no fewer than 50 people, with a yet to be ascertained number critically injured. The tall tree known as Osisi Ukwu Uko, collapsed on buildings as well as those transacting their businesses in a market located under the tree.