IMAGINE buying a plot of land for half a million naira and somebody comes to claim that his ancestors bequeathed the land to him and insists that you must pay certain amount of money to commence work on the land.

The ARCH BISHOP, Niger Delta North Diocese of the Anglican Communion, Most Reverend Ignatius Kattey, never saw it coming.

The flag-off of the reconstruction of the Lagos-Ibadan expressway came as a big sigh of relief to most motorists plying the ever-busy road. The contract awarded to Julius Berger and Royal Construction Company RCC in July 2013 is expected to take 48 months.

They left the shores of Nigeria in search of greener pastures with very high expectations but returned home empty handed. That was the story of 90 Nigerians who were repatriated from Tunisia. The deportees who arrived the Murtala Mohammed International Airport Lagos on Tuesday, wore mournful looks as they re-lived the sad tales of their sojourn in the North African country. The repatriation was facilitated by the International Organisation for Migration, IOM, with the support of the Tunisian government.

•LAMATA to launch 350 buses
Nigeria’s business hub, Lagos, one of Africa’s biggest cities, with an estimated population of 20 million inhabitants is famous for three distinctive features: high commercial activities, rush/congestion and its popular yellow commercial buses.

•FRSC, VIS, talk tough on enforcement…
Owners of vehicles with old number plates are in for a tough time with law enforcement agents, if the threat by Federal Road Safety Commission, FRSC, Lagos State Vehicle Inspection Service, VIS, and the Police is anything to go by as enforcement on new vehicle number plate commences on Tuesday, October 1, 2013.

Residents of Shasha Akowonjo, under the auspices of Landlords and Residents Association have sent a Save our Soul, SoS appeal to the Lagos State Governor, Mr Babatunde Fashola over what they described as an attempt by an agency of the state government to forcibly seize and demolish their structures in the name of building a market in the area.

For several years, sea pirates turned sea travel along the Oron –Cameroon –Gabon water channel into a nightmare. Harrowing tales of armed attacks, vandalisation and robbing of boats and ships along the channel were a constant feature of those who had cause to travel to Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea or Gabon for business or other activities by sea. Monsters or men of the underworld usually waylaid the water vessels by lurking inside ship wracks or hiding their speed boats in the crevices of the high sea weeds and creeks along the water channel at night and sometimes in the early hours of the morning.

The future of the stowaway teenage boy, Daniel Oikhena, became brighter, on Wednesday, after Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State met with him and his parents. Daniel stowed away in an Arik aircraft from Benin-Lagos penultimate Saturday, apprehended by officials of the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) in Lagos and handed over to officials of the Department of State Security (DSS).

BUT for the timely intervention of men of the Ebonyi State Command of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC, a suspected serial rapist, Mr. Peter Edigbo, 64, would have been lynched by members of Agbaenyim community in Izzi Local Government Area of Ebonyi State last weekend. The suspect was later arrested by the Command’s division in Izzi Local Government Area for allegedly raping a six-year-old girl, Miss Nkwegu Chinwe, at midnight when the victim was asleep in her house.