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.
Lack of trust goes deadly: ‘I almost died of ‘Magun’ planted on me by my husband’
A 34-year-old nurse, Mrs. Taiwo Akinode,has dragged her husband, Mr. Toyin Akinode, before an Oshodi customary court for allegedly planting ‘magun’ on her over lack of trust.
Host community gets best two students’ scholarships
In line with the popular proverb that says it takes a village to raise a child, a combination of British, American and Nigerian curriculum school, Mervyn Academy, has commenced plans to award scholarships to best two students from each of the schools within its host community.
My man slept with our daughter – Housewife
A housewife, Mrs. Janet Unwah, told an Orile Agege Customary Court that her husband, Mr. Augustine Unwah abandoned home after he had sex with their first daughter who was in her tender age. The mother of five, who claimed to have caught her husband pants down, informed the court that Augustine was a drunkard and that whenever he was drunk, he would beat her mercilessly at the slightest provocation.
Demolition caught us unawares – Makoko residents
MAKOKO, a water front community which has been in existence since 1890, suddenly became history after it was visited by a demolition squad sent by the Lagos State government on Monday and Tuesday last week. The demolition left over 200 of the residents, including infants, pregnant women and nursing mothers, homeless.
Traffic challenge in Lagos: Rail transport to the rescue
TRAFFIC congestion is one problem that has defied all the measures applied by successive administrations in Lagos. It was a problem that the Babatunde Fashola-led government also inherited and had at inception tackled by first addressing the prevailing transportation challenges in the state.
