Madam Rufai Adikat has lived in Imowo-nla area of Ikorodu for about eight decades, while her neighbour, 35 years old Mrs Oseni Adenike, moved into the community with her two children three years ago after completing her mini-flat.

IT is certainly not a place for the squeamish and the faint-hearted. The reason being that the gory sights there are not only indescribable but more than enough to give anyone serious nightmares. It is a place where you are immediately confronted with an overpowering aura of fear and death. Welcome to the now aptly named Soka Evil Forest in Ibadan, Oluyole Local Government where hundreds of kidnapped victims either met their untimely end or were languishing in agony before they were recently rescued.

THOUGH repairs on Dopemu and Iyana-Ipaja bridges were completed at least three days ahead of schedule, residents of the areas are not impressed. According to them what the bridges need is expansion rather than the purported repairs.

BEING a littoral state and the commercial hub of the country, Lagos has attracted more ships and vessels than any other city in Sub Saharan Africa since the Portuguese explorer Ruy de Sequeira named the area around the city Lago de Curamo, meaning lakes in Portuguese.

Tuesday, March 18 is not a day some operators of tricycles, popularly called ‘KEKE NAPEP’, in the heart of the Federal Capital Territory would want to come back.

Tears of joy rolled down the cheeks of natives of Ogwu-Aniocha community in Ogbaru Local Government Area of Anambra State as they presented their newly selected traditional ruler, His Royal Highness, HRH, Chief Nathaniel Nwajeli Nnaji, a traditional medical practitioner to the local council authorities for recognition as their Igwe-elect.

FOR the people of Egi community in Ogba Egbema Ndoni Local Government Area of Rivers State, there is no better way to express appreciation to Mr Guy Maurice, the out-going Managing Director and Chief Executive officer of Total E& P Nigeria limited for his contribution to their well-being: That is to honour him with their presence on the day he was conferred with the coveted traditional title, Uhwo ka Egi, meaning “the Light of Egi land”.

THE National Council of Managing Director sof Licensed Customs Agents (NCMDLCA), has said that if the current crisis rocking the port industry is not attended to, it will lead to massive port congestion.

THE lingering litigation over a $3.8 billion Egina oil platform project between the Lagos Deep Offshore Logistics (LADOL) and Samsung/Total took a fresh twist as LADOL, that the first defendant, has accused Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI), of breaching an earlier ruling by Justice Chukwu Jeku Aneke of the Federal High Court, Ikoyi, Lagos, that parties maintain status quo pending the determination of the suite.

The sad look on the faces of sympathisers and newsmen who had gathered in the female surgical ward of the Abubakar Tafawa Balewa Teaching Hospital told it all.

Lagos state has scored another first, being the pioneer state to delineate a law for consumer protection, expected to guard against the exposure to harmful usage of goods and exploitation by consumers.

Property worth millions of Naira were destroyed in Lagos last weekend during different fire outbreaks across the state.

THE Lagos state government, through the state Waste Management Authority, LAWMA, has sanctioned at least three Private Sector Participants, PSPs saddled with waste collection and disposal and issued warning to several others over alleged increment in the monthly service charges to residents across the state.

One may be tempted to ask if the angel of mercy guarding the Mercyland Prayer Ministries, Alaro Ibadan was on another divine assignment on the day a mystery fire suddenly issued from nowhere and killed three members of the church. Or could it be that prayers of the church were not enough?

Ello Dankogol who hails from Kwalla village in Quan-Pan Locla Government Area of Plateau State probably thought he was a cat with nine lives.