Okogbe community in Ahoada West Local Government Area of Rivers State has not been the same since the petrol tanker fire that occurred penultimate Thursday, consuming about 200 of its residents.

NOTICE is hereby given to you to vacate and remove all illegal developments along the Makoko/Iwaya Waterfront within 72 hour, their unwholesome structures on the waterfront amounted to an environmental nuisance” said a letter from the Lagos State ministry of Waterfront, Infrastructure and Development.

NOcturnal life at the Prisons Officers Wives Association shops, PROWA, popularly known as Umunede, came to an abrupt end last week as a combined team of armed military men (Army and Navy) and their counterpart from the Prisons, the Prisons Armed Squad, PAS, stormed the place to enforce traders compliance to the 9 pm to 8 am deadline for traders occupying front line shops at the Prisons barracks. But before now businesses, most especially bar and restaurant owners, operate up till 11.30 pm to 12 midnight.

MR. Chuks Omeife is the President Nigeria Institute of Builders, NIOB. In this interview with VanguardFeatures,VF, he lamented that mortgage institutions in Nigeria, have abandoned their primary mandate of providing finance at reasonable costs.

If you get caught by any chance, do not allow them to enter your car, if they happen to get in do not drive from that spot (veer off traffic & settle promply), and if they don’t agree, pretend that you are calling your uncle who is in the army (believe me it always works), never follow them to any sort of office except you are ready to pay ten times more than what was demanded.

NATIONAL Agency for Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons and other related matters, NAPTIP, has secured a total of 168 convictions in the past nine years of operations, saying not less than 41 cases were currently pending at the Lagos zone.

OF all the problems facing Lagos, the worst might be traffic. Chaotic traffic in Lagos is man-made – a phenomenon as destructive and inevitable as the rains that falls anytime of the year.

A 28-year-old woman, Mrs.Rachel Raheem, told an Agege customary court that her husband, Mr. Aliu Raheem, beat her constantly and once stripped her naked in the public.

Inspector Isaac Aigbokhaevbo is one of the police officers that died Edo State on July 14, 2012, the day of the governorship election in the state. Three police officers and an ad-hoc staff of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), including Aigbokhaevbo, lost their lives when a boat conveying them to a voting center at Ologbo, Ikpoba Okhai Local Government Council capsized.

A 34-year-old nurse, Mrs. Taiwo Akinode,has dragged her husband, Mr. Toyin Akinode, before an Oshodi customary court for allegedly planting ‘magun’ on her over lack of trust.

In line with the popular proverb that says it takes a village to raise a child, a combination of British, American and Nigerian curriculum school, Mervyn Academy, has commenced plans to award scholarships to best two students from each of the schools within its host community.

A housewife, Mrs. Janet Unwah, told an Orile Agege Customary Court that her husband, Mr. Augustine Unwah abandoned home after he had sex with their first daughter who was in her tender age. The mother of five, who claimed to have caught her husband pants down, informed the court that Augustine was a drunkard and that whenever he was drunk, he would beat her mercilessly at the slightest provocation.

MAKOKO, a water front community which has been in existence since 1890, suddenly became history after it was visited by a demolition squad sent by the Lagos State government on Monday and Tuesday last week. The demolition left over 200 of the residents, including infants, pregnant women and nursing mothers, homeless.

TRAFFIC congestion is one problem that has defied all the measures applied by successive administrations in Lagos. It was a problem that the Babatunde Fashola-led government also inherited and had at inception tackled by first addressing the prevailing transportation challenges in the state.

It came as a shock for residents of Abeokuta when a father who claimed to be fed up with the erring ways of his son publicly disowned him and invited who ever was interested to come and take him away. Vanguard Metro, VM, gathered that the enraged and seemingly irrational father of the rejected child, Sodiq Wasiu, is an Abeokuta-based Tipper Lorry Driver known simply as Baba Sodiq.