Ademola Ibirogba had just settled down for the day’s job at his mechanic workshop at Obadore on the Idimu Egbe road in Lagos on that fateful day two years back when a petroleum tanker unexpectedly ran into some vehicles. The tanker driver had, apparently, lost control.

Eight-yearFavour Felim Miller, like any other Nigerian child, was born into the family of Mr. and Mrs. Miller Emore on November 17, 2003, at the Redeemed Church Hospital, Lagos Nigeria. But shortly after her birth, it was noticed that she had an opening at the lower part of her waist, a condition medical experts call Spinal Cord Bifida. Doctors at the Redeemed Church hospital immediately referred Favour to the emergency unit of the Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH) where the case was examined and handled by experts.

At the last count 10 persons had been hacked to death in the war between the Eiye Confraternity and the Black Axe in Benin.

As the harmattan haze blew across farmlands at Apete village, near Abeokuta, last week, it was not difficult for the villagers to perceive an unusual thick foul smell around them.

Down the slope on Ilorin Street, Area 8, Garki Abuja, the street curves a few meters from a swath of banana ‘forest’ that banks a sinuous stream. From the start of the curve, a short, rough narrow road tees off southward, leading to a narrow bridge of about 10 meters length. It is actually a pedestrian bridge, but can accommodate a car at a time. The narrow pedestal bridge, bursts forth unto a surprisingly wide looking arena, dotted with trees and hedges.

After waiting for over an hour for registering corpers, 88 year old Nasir Ella was denied an opportunity to vote in the coming elections.

ON December 14, 1998, a ceiling fan cut Mr. Omasan Amunubo’s face. After treatment, the surgery left five stitches below his left eye. Omasan, Male, 53, has since undergone other medical operations to correct the defects that resulted from the surgery, to the extent that he developed advanced glaucoma. Today, Omasan is completely blind from what has been described by an Ophthalmologist as Corneal Opacification.

For the family of Alhaji and Alhaja Tunde Busari both natives of Ilorin in Kwara state , it has been decades of nightmares, agonies, pains, humiliation and disappointments over their state of childlessness until early this month when a set of twins silently crept into the family. The family got married in 1986.

Nkechi Nwosu, 24, and a student is battling for her life after she was diagnosed as having kidney failure.. She now requires N6 million for a replant to save her life.

On May 27, 2005, Francis Ememifeozor of Ogbe Ishago Village, Ogwashi Uku, Delta State was involved in a major accident as he was walking along Costain Bus Stop at Ebutta Metta in Lagos. He was hit by a 911 truck which ran away.

Babies are special gifts from God and Okiki Daniel Adetayo is a very special creature of God given the circumstances of his birth. While most babies stay in the womb between 9-11months or a little more, Okiki was there for ten years.

Precious Ikechukwu, 20, is one of the hundreds of victims of the ravaging floods at Ajegunle, Ikosi-Isheri, Lagos State. She is really not strange to the occasional flooding in the area, but this latest incident is likely to live with her for a long time to come.

Though their houses may have been submerged by water, their businesses paralysed and other belongings, acquired over the years with sweat gone, some victims of the flooding at Ajegunle-Ikorodu, Ikosi and Isheri areas of Lagos are determined not to move anywhere under a rehabilitation programme drawn up by the state governor, Babatunde Fashola. Only a few have agreed to relocate to the Agbowa Relief Camp.

He was born normal and handsome, like every other child. But two years after his birth, his family has been plunged into pains and difficulty with an unknown growth on the left side of his face, causing facial deformation. It is 10 years now.

Young Ajiroghene was born mentally challenged into a family of eight. He was abhorred like a plague by his mother and thus never knew motherly love because his four elders’ brothers and sisters were not handicapped..