For traders and trailer drivers at the Mile 12 food market, it was a case of hopeless despair as they are daily subjected to all manner of levies. The extortion rages from unwarranted taxation, land rent, area boys tax, local government levy, task force levy among others.

AFTER putting 35 years into the civil service, Caleb Mida, who was awaiting retirement to start enjoying the fruits of his labour was killed by a mysterious flood in Gwallameji, a suburb of Bauchi metropolis.

RESIDENTS of Egbiri community in Ojokoro Local Council Development Area have cried out to the Lagos State Government to extend its infrastructural redevelopment plans to the area, just as they complained about the “continuous neglect” by the state government. They attributed the environmental challenges confronting them to climate change which is taking its toll on the community through excessive rainfalls, heavy flooding, erosion and destruction of property.

When people get married, they rightly expect children to start coming almost immediately. New born babies are usually welcomed with relish. Parties are lavishly thrown to herald their entry into any family.

IT took the unfortunate killing of a pupil, Opeyemi Rasheed, by his classmate, Abiodun Oluwadare, in October 2010 for government’s attention to be drawn to the unsavoury status of the All Saints Primary School at Oke-Ijebu area of Akure, Ondo State. The two pupils had been playing with a pistol allegedly hidden in the school premises by hoodlums who had turned the school’s compound to their operational base when Oluwadare unknowingly pulled the trigger thereby killing Rasheed instantly.