IT was an exercise reminiscent of the demolition of the chaotic Oshodi Market-cum- bus-stop in January 2009 by men of the Lagos State Task Force on Environmental and Special Offences (Enforcement Unit). It was a massive operation which sent all undesirable elements within Oshodi and environs packing and ensured the return of sanity in the area.

Call it a typical tragic story coming out of tragedy-prone Lagos, you will not be wrong. For how else can one describe the fate of a man and his mother who were both victims of the tanker fire that claimed several lives at Fin Niger along the Lagos-Badagary Expressway.

After Vanguard broke the sad story of Comfort Sunday, the reaction from all over the world was unbelievable, but encouraging. For an update Vanguard Metro eventually caught up with her father, the very man accused of bathing Comfort with acid. Mr. Sunday James, a retired Police corporal, now an unemployed security guard in Akwanga, had played hide and seek with Vanguard the first time we attempted to get his side of he story.

Students of Owerri Girls Secondary School will not forget November 28, 2010, in a hurry. They woke up like they did in previous days.

NOBODY in his normal state of mind would disapprove a fight-back by the Joint Task Force, JTF, in the Niger-Delta after about nine of its soldiers were shot dead and a number of its gunboats destroyed by militants, under the aegis of the Niger-Delta Liberation Force, NDLF, headed by wanted militant leader, “General” John Togo during a fierce gun battle on Wednesday, November 17.

IT WAS a touching, palpably compelling moment in Ika nation, recently, when a philanthropist, physician, humanist and aspirant into the Ika Federal constituency seat, Dr. Isioma Okobah, who is based in the United States, paid a sympathy visit to the families of the six pupils who lost their lives in the water tank tragic incident in Agbor, Ika South Local Government Area of Delta State.

FOR residents of Ojodu area of Lagos State, the worry of shopping for the 2010 Christmas celebration may be over.

There are just two classroom blocks for the about 200 pupils in the school. But even space constraint is not their only problem.

FOR commuters plying the Lagos Badagry expressway, Thursday, December 1, 2010, is a day they will not forget in a hurry. Same applies to those who reside along the expressway, especially the Finiger-Alakija axis of the highway. Aside being trapped in the traffic for several hours, the sight of roasted human corpses, was one that will haunt them for years to come.

Doris Simeon Ademinokan stands out in Nollywood. In an industry where rumour mills are regularly at work, she has managed to keep her head above waters and staying free from scandals.