Pedro Ken Ogbebor, alias New Yorker is a 46 year-old cripple, residing by the Samuel Ogbemudia Stadium Benin City. He is one person that his disability had never hindered from embarking on any mission. Although he has not been to America before, his American accent gave him the name, New Yorker. Even as a cripple, he is popular and loved by many including women. Saturday Vanguard spoke with this father of three whose wife abandoned few months ago on why he is a fan of beautiful ladies despite his disability. This encounter was quite revealing. Excerpts:

The Kirikiri Medium Prison, Lagos, was a beehive of activities Wednesday, as inmates, majority of whom were awaiting trial forgot all the worries associated with their confinement and concentrated rather on the historic event of the day.

Bashiru Alafe, 42, a vulcaniser, has been running helter skelter for the past six months to save the life of his daughter, Shukurat, 15, an SS1 student of East City College, Ikorodu, who according to medical reports has developed end-stage kidney failure.

What started like a mystery turned out to be a celebration as the students of Obafemi Awolowo University christened the ‘Moremi Baby’ on the eighth day.

Despite being confined to a wheelchair, Joke Alonge is undeterred by the odds fate has put before her. She bagged a first degree in special education at University of Ibadan (UI) in 1992; second degree in social work in 2002; and secured a Ford Foundation scholarship by which she received a certificate in community development at University of Denver, Colorado, US in 2008. Alonge currently practices social work at University College Hospital (UCH) Ibadan. In this piece, she makes a case for people living with disability.