A 53-year-old trader, Nzewi Donatus is currently facing a two-count charge at the Ojo Magistrate court, Lagos, for having canal knowledge of his daughter, Oluchi Nzewi , 18, without her consent which is an offense under section 258 of the criminal laws of Lagos state .

Virtue is the one and only nobility, according to Juvenal, a Roman poet. That was what flashed through my mind when an 88 year-old monarch, Obi James Ikechukwu Anyasi II, the Obi of the ancient kingdom of Idumeje-Unor in Aniocha North local government area of Delta State began to share the secret behind his longevity, why he is waxing stronger day by day despite his age.

Bridget Azin Omang is just 30, a mother of two. She is a single parent whose plan for a good life saw her pass through the Cross River State College of Agriculture, Obubra, although she could not secure a job before the unforeseen happened.

As survivors and others affected by the recent ocean surge at the Bar Beach continue to count their losses, the Lagos State government has once again frowned at the ugly incident, while reiterating its earlier warning that people who reside at the Beach and other disaster-prone areas should relocate for their own safety.

Last week, the Lagos State government rendered account of its stewardship since 2007 to the people in Lagos West Senatorial District, with Alimosho Local Government Secretariat, Ikotun, as venue of the Town Hall meeting.

STUDENTS of the Federal Polytechnic Oko, Anambra and members of the National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, are presently in grief and brimming with emotion over a tragic loss that befell them. They are mourning the death of a colleague, Chijioke Benjamin Okonkwo a.k.a. Okons, who died in an auto crash while on NYSC assignment.

THE General Manager, Lagos State Emergency Management Agency, Mr. Femi Osanyintolu, after the early morning ocean surge on Saturday that sacked communities around Kuramo Beach in Lagos, leaving several persons dead and others missing, said the surge is a problem of communities around beach fronts which had wreaked havoc severally in the past.

BARELY few weeks after Lagos State government signed the Traffic Bill into law, which among other things restricts officials of the National Union of Roads and Transport Workers, NURTW, to their motor parks, some members of the union have devised a smarter way to continue with their nefarious activities on the roads.

THE issue of corpses and animal carcasses on the highways will never cease to constitute an irritating, embarrassing and environmentally unpleasant sight not to mention its public health implications.

The Federal Capital Territory Administration, FCTA, has constituted a new committee as part of the measures to resolve the lingering Apo resettlement challenge.