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..