Commuters stranded as floods cut off Agbarho/Ughelli road
THE three days heavy downpour has caused severe flooding of parts of the Agbarho/Ughelli Road in Ughelli North Area Area of Delta State, cutting off parts of the road, particularly around the Agbarho Police Station, making the route difficult and the section nearly impossible to pass.
Gowon Estate residents raise alarm over rot of infrastructure
Years back, Gowon Estate in Egbeda, Mosan Okunola local council development area of Lagos State, could conveniently pass as a high brow residential area and was therefore much sought after by many Nigerians.
Persons living with disabilities send SOS to govt
PEOPLE living with disabilities have called on government, to include them in its policy, while decrying continuing neglect, especially in the area of welfare and social amenities
Lagos set to pull down buildings to avert flooding
Lagos State Government, as part of 2014 pre-raining season measure against flooding, late last month, ordered the immediate stoppage of further construction of structures by a developer at Osborne foreshore, Ikoyi area for encroaching on limitation area as well as violation of the state’s environmental law.
Warri women rage over power blackout, market demolition
IT was a day of rage by aggrieved women in Warri, Monday, as scores of them took to the streets in protest over worrisome power outage in Iyara layout of the city, while market women at the Ogbuwangwe Market whose makeshift shops and wares were wrecked by bulldozers gave vent to tears as they disrupted traffic on the NPA Expressway.
Communities beg Tinubu for transformers
Community leaders of 13 local government areas and local council development areas, LCDAs, in Lagos Central Senatorial District, have appealed to Senator Oluremi Tinubu, representing the district in the Senate to provide transformers and other electricity installations to the communities, saying, “this will help empower more teeming residents in the area.”
