Some traders in Nworie Lane Industrial Market, Owerri, as well as the management of United Bank for Africa Plc, Douglas Road branch, Owerri, will definitely not forget Monday, July 9, 2012, in a hurry. This is a day a mysterious fire razed part of the Industrial Market, some adjoining buildings and two floors of the bank!

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.