LAGOS residents now live in fear as the 2013 rainy season gather momentum. This is apparently due to the devastating effect of floods that come with the season. Previously, particularly, 2010 and 2011, there weres heavy rainfall accompanied by severe rainstorm which claimed hundreds of lives and destroyed property worth billions of naira across the metropolis.

MRS. Ebobra Newman Ometan, 30 and members of her family comprising three boys and girl had fantastic plans for the Easter holidays until a dark cloud fell upon the hitherto happy family and things fell apart, leaving many unanswered questions.

MOST Nigerians probably never knew that there was the female wing of militants or freedom fighters, as some youths who delved into militancy in the Niger Delta region, preferred to be addressed. Veronica (not her real name) told Vanguard Metro, VM, during her graduation ceremony from the Centre for Creative Arts Education, CREATE run by popular Nollywood actress, Hilda Dokubo, that she was in charge of the armoury in one of the camps.

Northerners who are living in Oyegbemi and Aromire Streets, Ijora Badia area of Lagos state, where two suspected members of Islamic sect, Boko Haram were arrested last week, have stated moving out of the area in batches for fear of been caught in the sectarian quagmire.

Gully erosion is one of the ecological challenges affecting almost all the states in the South-Eastern part of Nigeria. The problem is, however, most pronounced in Anambra and Imo states. For example, at Ezioko Nanka in Anambra State, the deep gully created by erosion measures more than 20 feet.