Any first time visitor to Oke-Alo Estate, off Gbagada, in Kosofe Local Government Area of Lagos, will never fail to marvel at the magnificent buildings and exotic cars driving in and out of the estate. But like the title of a popular soap opera, the rich also cry as residents of the estate are presently lamenting over the imminent danger of their houses sinking, except urgent measures are taken to check the development.

Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babatunde Raji Fashola will on Friday, commission the ultra-modern Gbaja shopping mall located in the Surulere area of Lagos

NO fewer than 20 victims of kerosene explosion were on admission at different hospitals in Rivers State at the time of writing this piece. Some of them that could speak told the story of how they found themselves in the hospital when a team from the Department of Petroleum Resources, Port Harcourt unit visited them. A common trend in their story was that they got the killer kerosene from the road side

THE National Drug Law Enforcement Agency NDLEA has expressed worries over the low sentences usually passed on drug convicts by judges, saying the trend was encouraging illicit drug trafficking in the country. Aside that, the anti-drug agency said judges were equally trivializing drug offences by granting an ‘option of fine’ to suspects, adding that the action was capable of discouraging the fight against trafficking in hard drugs

Until one asked what made hundreds of women, who held their chests in fear, running almost naked to various public primary schools in Ibadan, capital of Oyo State, demanding the release of their children and wards by teachers, one would have thought the city had been run over by some heavily armed warriors