WHEN residents of Amuwo-Odofin Newtown, Mile 2 Estate Lagos, discovered in 2009 that tractors had been mobilised for the reconstruction of the only major road that passes through their estate, they heaved a sigh of relief.

As part of efforts to cushion the effect of disaster in some parts of the country, the National Emergency Management Authority, NEMA, says it has donated some relief materials to the Lagos State government.

As part of measures to reduce the perennial flooding in the Ejigbo Local Council Development Area, LCDA, Chairman of the council, Mr. Kehinde Bamigbetan, has directed 57 community development associations, CDAs, who were yet to ultise the desilting grants of their drainages to comply within the next 24 hours or face necessary sanction.

A Federal High Court sitting in Owerri, Imo State capital, has come to the rescue of an Owerri-based legal practitioner, Mr. Jude I. Ogamba, whose house was illegally allocated to another party by the Federal Housing Authority, FHA, without his consent.

Perhaps if Chukwuebuka Okonkwo had not returned to his mother’s shop to look for his brother Michael he would have escaped the tragic attack that has changed his life.