The residents of Festac Town in Amuwo Odofin Local Government Area can presently afford to heave a sigh of relief courtesy of an interventionist plan conceived by the chairman of the council, Mr Ayodele Adewale to give the place a facelift. Speaking with Vanguard Metro, Mr Adewale said his effort in this regard would not only transform the aesthetic of the federal estate, but also boost its economic power.

THE popular Idumota Market in Lagos Island is usually a beehive every day of the week. As early as 7am, traders will always be found there displaying different types of wares. The market has for many years been a popular converging point of sellers and buyers as attested to by the number of people that throng for sundry commercial activities.

When some occupants of a two-storey building at 3, Alhaji Mudashiru-Awe Street, Yaba, Lagos Mainland, left their house for their places of work on Monday, August 15, there was nothing to suggest that danger was lurking around the corner.

Madubuike and his wife were clueless about the whereabouts of their daughter for four months. She had gone missing after she told her parents she was going to check her post JAMB results in one of the universities in the South-East.

A non-government organisation working in the area of campaigns against desert migration to Europe, Patriotic Citizen Initiatives, PCI, has advised the Federal Government to check the rising trend of desert migration by young Nigerians, even as it urged them to urgently commence the re-orientaion and rehabilitation of the 1,750 returnees from Libya.