Will my mother come back to life”? asked seven-year-old Esther Okechukwu, a student of Government School, Fagba who gazed at the mammoth crowd that besieged No 12 Olaniyi st, off Akande Street, Iju/Ishaga area of Lagos State, the scene of the ill-fated plane crash of last Sunday.

As Nigerians await experts analysis of the black box recovered from the ill-fated Dana Air Mcdonnell Douglas MD-83 plane that crashed at Iju-Ishaga, Lagos, speculations remain high as to why it crashed. But an eyewitness, Leke Busari, who spoke with Vanguard Metro was convinced that a possible technical fault with the aircraft notwithstanding, the pilot erred in his judgement for failing to take advantage available to him in making a safe emergency landing at the near-by Oke Arin airstrip at Makogun Road, Ishaga.

For those who died when a church building under construction in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital, collapsed, they woke up on Wednesday, just like any other day but little did they know that the day would be their last and a painful one for others to remember.

The Ntan Obu Ukpe in Eniong, Odukpani Local Government Area of Cross River State was on Wednesday May 23, nearly annihilated by the Ikpanya community of Ibiono Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom State over the struggle for a piece of land that is rich in mineral deposits and alluvial products.

The inherent hazard faced by travellers plying the troubled East-West road which straddled the oil rich states of the Niger Delta again played out itself last week Monday night when a Mitsubishi Gallant car collided with another vehicle, a Honda car on the bridge and plunged into the Okoso river.