AS Ramadan approaches, David Emeka Kalu, a poet and freelance journalist in this humourous piece, “Slow Down Food, Lemme Catch Up Witcha!”, writes about discovering Lagos’s street delicacies and authentic local cuisine.

IN Lagos State, Access 57 stands for the 20 local governments and 37 Local Council Development Areas with the sole purpose of bringing government closer to the people.

THE extra security measures taken by the Federal Government in forestalling any possible attack on the Kirikiri Prison, may be taking its tolls on residents and traders of the area following the deployment of soldiers from the 81 Division Lagos, to guard the prison.

The cool atmosphere of Victoria Island Lagos came alive when indigenes of Abia State resident in Lagos State rolled out the drums in their numbers to welcome their governor, Chief Theodore Orji.

In the views of Frederick Buechner, a renowned educator, “The life I touch for good or ill will touch another life and that in turn another, until who knows where the trembling stops or in what far place my touch will be felt.”

Although this is not the first time repairs will be carried out on Africa’s longest bridge, the Third Mainland Bridge, road users in Lagos have expressed worries over the use of the alternative routes as spelt out by the state government.

One of the first major steps taken by the administration of Dr. Mu’azu Babangida Aliyu when he took over the mantle of leadership of Niger State in 2007 was the clearing of heaps of refuse that have taken over most of the major streets of the towns and cities.

In 1976, thousands of Black school children took to the streets of Soweto, South Africa, in a march more than half a mile long. They protested the inferior quality of their education and demanded their right to be taught in their own languages.

DESPITE repeated warnings by the Federal Government that construction of buildings in the country should be done according to standard, records of building collapse have remained on the increase. In Ebonyi State, no fewer than 21 persons last week escaped death by whiskers when a two-storey building under construction collapsed.

“As you can see the entire place is peaceful, no insecurity, no violence, nobody was killed, people are going about their normal businesses. The rumour making the rounds that hoodlums have taken over Isheri-Olofin is unfounded and baseless, it is the handiwork of mischievous people in the community.

How often do you buy edible items on the road side, especially around some popular markets like Agege, Ketu, Ojota, Mushin and Iyana-Ipaja, all in Lagos State? If you have been doing this on a regular basis, chances are that you have been spending good money on expired or substandard products from some dump sites in the State, especially from the Olusosun landfill in Oregun.

LAGOS State Government has insisted that it will not pay the N7million judgment granted against it in favour of a Nigerien, Malam Maman Keita.

LAGOS State Government has said that henceforth, professional drivers who are not certified by its Drivers’ Institute will be barred from operating in the state.

PEOPLE call it different names: Igbos call it Ina aga, those in the Northern parts of Nigeria call it Achaba. In Kafanchan, Kaduna State, people call it “Going”, while in the neighbouring Benin Republic and its environs, people call it Keke and in the South/West parts of Nigeria, the name is Okada. All these acronyms put together, boils down to motorcycle.

LAGOS Waste Management Authority recently handed over the just completed Makoko Resource Centre, which aims at ensuring a cleaner environment via the 3Cs project that is, Community Clean-up Campaign.