Against the backdrop of the recent demolition of Makoko, a coastal community in Lagos, by the state government, a lawmaker in the Lagos State House of Assembly has called on government to design programmes that will ensure that people living in slums are given a new life.

A middle aged man, Mr. Femi Bamidele, who was dragged before a Grade A customary court, Agege for divorce by his wife, Esther, for incessant beating with dangerous weapons, alleged that his wife was fetish.

Mrs. Nnee Uloko, who was dragged before a Lagos customary court sitting in Agege for divorce by her husband, Mr. Sunday Uloko, for embarrassing him in public, alleged that her husband, a policeman, and his brother beat her and she lost a five-month-old pregnancy in the process.

…Flood has washed away my farmland
BAuchi—IT was a tale of two homes, Wednesday, in Bauchi when the wife of a peasant farmer gave birth to quadruplets at home with help from a traditional midwife, while that of a lawmaker was delivered of triplets through a N250,000-gulping cesarean section.

No fewer than three hundred persons in Etsako Central, Etsako East and Esan South East Local Government Councils of Edo State are presently counting their losses since the River Niger overflowed its banks. In the first instance, they were rendered homeless, while property worth over N1 billion were destroyed by the rampaging flood.