When people get married, they rightly expect children to start coming almost immediately. New born babies are usually welcomed with relish. Parties are lavishly thrown to herald their entry into any family.

IT took the unfortunate killing of a pupil, Opeyemi Rasheed, by his classmate, Abiodun Oluwadare, in October 2010 for government’s attention to be drawn to the unsavoury status of the All Saints Primary School at Oke-Ijebu area of Akure, Ondo State. The two pupils had been playing with a pistol allegedly hidden in the school premises by hoodlums who had turned the school’s compound to their operational base when Oluwadare unknowingly pulled the trigger thereby killing Rasheed instantly.

August 1, 2012 may have come and gone, but it left in its trail wanton destruction of properties and outright displacement of families resident in a three-storey building which collapsed at 3, Anikantamo, Adeniji Adele area of Lagos. The affected building, which used to house about 30 families, is today demolished.

Funmi Falana is the wife of renown lawyer, Femi Falana, SAN. She speaks on her life as a legal practitioner and issues in the profession. Specifically, she shares her first experience in court with her husband.

UBURU in Ohaozara Local Government Area of Ebonyi State is said to be prone to violence, especially during electioneering campaigns to elect those to pilot the affairs of the local government area or the state as a whole.