THE sleepy farming community of Urum in Awka North local government area of Anambra State was thrown into confusion last week when the people woke up to hear the terrible incident of the death of four persons, including a 95 –year old man in their rooms as a result of suspected fumes from a generating set.

In 1980, Mr Micheal Osagiede, a 54 year old man from Edo state traveled to the United States of America to seek
for greener pastures and returned for the first time in Nigeria in 2006 after spending 26 years in the US. However, his problem started when he met some friends in a bar in Benin City.

To Ademola Ibirogba, 32, life is full of mystery. The story of his life started when he had to drop out of school because there was no financial support from his family side.

Yesterday, the Vice President of the Nigerian Labour Congress, Comrade Issa Aremu visited some of the severely injured victims of last Sunday Esther bomb blast that happened in Kaduna. The explosion killed an estimated 36 people and left 16 with grave injuries. Most affected were commercial motorcycle riders.

It was, indeed, a moment of mourning for staff and members of Nigerian Union of Local Government Employees, NULGE, Lagos State chapter, who lost a colleague, a staffer of Odiolowo/Ojuwoye Local Government Council Development, LCDA, in tragic circumstances, on Wednesday, March 28.

The popular Tiv yam market, in Alaba Rago, along the Badagry expressway, Lagos is always a beehive of activities. In the day time, business activities thrive, with traders from different parts of the country shopping. At night, commercial sex workers cluster around to compete for male customers.

The sheer number of people in need of eye surgery was staggering. For many of them, loss of sight simply crept in upon them in their waking moments while a good number had been nursing it for years.

…Varsity student who visited WAEC to collect result crushed inside elevator
Fatai Olamilekan Odeniyi, an undergraduate of Lagos State University LASU, had dreamt of so many things in his life, part of which was to take care of his aged parents and a shoulder, which his family members will lean on.

For three months, George Onyemachi and his wife, Favour, both victims of the Gombe Deeper Life Church shooting have been on their different hospital beds at the Male Orthopaedic and Female Surgical wards of the Federal Medical Centre, Gombe respectively.

It was six hours of pandemonium and sheer madness in Makurdi, the Benue State capital on Wednessday when two students of the Benue State University, BSU, lost their lives while no fewer than 11 Police Officers and some other students were hospitalised after a turmoil that erupted in the town following a mob action that trailed an accident involving a heavy duty truck at the main entrance of BSU.

When rumours and text messages purportedly from the Boko Haram Sect to attack Plateau State started making the rounds towards the end of last year, many residents found them unsettling. What with the antecedents of the sect in different parts of the North.

WHAT the people of Anambra State had been clamouring for over the years is about to happen and that is that the state will soon be included among the oil producing states in the country with its attendant benefits. Though the Anambra River basin was known to be rich in crude oil and gas deposits, it was placed on what was described in the industry, as strategic reserve.

PORT HARCOURT: IT was certainly not a sweet story for the police penultimate week in Port Harcourt when a Corporal shot his senior, an Inspector dead and then turned the riffle at himself and pulled the trigger, killing himself on the spot as well.

Created only fifteen years ago out of old Bauchi State, Gombe State is fast growing in limbs and bounds. Its strategic location in the center of North Eastern geo-graphical hemisphere has made it a political rallying point for North –east politics.

For five weeks, the tragic end of a businessman who reportedly died inside the Ikeja police division cell has been a running story with emerging twists and untold angles unfolding by the day.