FOR residents of Okobaba sawmill community in Ebute Metta of Lagos the fire incident that wreaked havoc in the area on November still remains a bitter pill for them to swallow.

IT was a sharp but pleasant departure from the norm, especially based on common experience. Indeed, members of the Lagos State House of Assembly certainly took their constituents by surprise with an unprecedented constituency stakeholders meeting on Tuesday November 10, 2015.

ABA, the acclaimed Enyimba City and commercial capital of Abia State was in the news recently, albeit for the wrong reasons. No fewer than 20 persons sustained varying degrees of injury in a fracas that resulted from the forcible eviction of some traders from the Highlife area of the city by the Aba Urban Renewal, AUR Committee.

FOR Afeez Salami, disability cannot be an impediment to the actualisation of his God-given talents. The 21- year-old, who is physically challenged, is convinced that fulfilling his aspirations in life is the only instrument for his dry bone to live again.

It was an emotional moment of discovery for Mrs. Dorothy Anaduaka, widow of the late Editorial Coordinator of Vanguard Newspapers, Mr. Thomas Anyaegbuna Anaduaka, when members of Vanguard chapel of the Nigerian Union of Journalists, NUJ, visited the No. 13/19 Araromi, Alafia-Orile, Lagos residence of their late colleague, fondly called Pa Anaduaka, to pay him their last respects.