Northerners who are living in Oyegbemi and Aromire Streets, Ijora Badia area of Lagos state, where two suspected members of Islamic sect, Boko Haram were arrested last week, have stated moving out of the area in batches for fear of been caught in the sectarian quagmire.

Gully erosion is one of the ecological challenges affecting almost all the states in the South-Eastern part of Nigeria. The problem is, however, most pronounced in Anambra and Imo states. For example, at Ezioko Nanka in Anambra State, the deep gully created by erosion measures more than 20 feet.

Mrs Dodo Esther,one of the less-privileged women in Ilaje-Bariga, a Lagos slum, had lived from hand to mouth for 28 years. She used to be a petty trader until she developed passion for midwifery which she learnt from her mother-in-law.

…She wants to kill all of us…
Residents of No. 10 Wegbo street, Onike, off Iwaya road, Yaba, Lagos, are begging for justice from all the appropriate authorities over the activities of one of their neighbours which they said is not only “very destructive and worrisome but causing them sleepless nights”.

…demands N6.3 million as damages
An Nsukka based business man, Uzodinma Okoro has dragged one Humphery Abba alongside a truck driver, Abubakar Mohammed before an Enugu State High Court sitting in Nsukka asking for an order directing them to pay him a sum of N6.3 million as special and general damages as compensation for his damaged car.

IT was indeed an amazing sight that stirred up mixed reactions from residents of 7b, Nnorom Street, Ntezi-Aba, Abakaliki at the weekend. The discovery that the 200 years old tree usually worshipped by most of them had fallen without any visible external force left them baffled.

A HUNGRY man, they say, is an angry man. But Vanguard Metro, VM, is in a position to declare that a homeless man could be a venomously angry man as a recent visit to the shanty, Iganmu Alawo Community in Apapa Iganmu Local Council Development Area, otherwise known as Badia East, which was recently demolished by the Lagos State government, has revealed. And this is aptly captured in this scenario:

Before his 30-hour train journey to northern Nigeria began, David Adedamola had been excited to ride the just-revived service, but after half a day of creaking and rattling, he was craving a beer.

…Lawmakers summon commissioners, PS
BArely two weeks after residents of Ijora-Badia, a slum dwelling within Iganmu Alawo Community in Apapa Iganmu Local Council Development Area, LCDA, were displaced following demolition of their houses, hundreds of structures allegedly built on government’s land in Odoiragunshi Community in Eredo Local council Development Area of Epe, were on Tuesday brought down.

For suspected pipeline vandal, Imeh Etim, 27, only the urgent intervention of the General Overseer of the Deeper Life Bible Church, Pastor William Kumuyi, can rescue him from his present predicament. Ime who said he has been a member of Pastor Kumuyi’s church for the past 13 years wants the cleric to use his good office to save him from an uncertain fate. Imeh was arrested recently with two of his siblings, Bassey, 25 and Effiong, 32 and a family friend, Samuel Christopher, at Ojo area of Lagos during a raid by agents of the anti-vandals department of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC, Lagos State Command, in connection with pipeline vandalism.