Babies in the rubble: Inside Lagos’ growing child abandonment crisis
ON a rainy Tuesday morning in Ikeja, sanitation workers made a grim discovery. Tucked inside a carton by a roadside drain was a newborn, still with the umbilical cord attached and wrapped in a thin cloth.
How three persons lost their lives inside a well in Bauchi
If Mallam Bala Mohammed Dierba had known that cleaning the well in his compound will lead to the death of three persons, he surely would have changed his mind and dropped the idea. But being human with no ability to see into the future, except by divine revelation, he acted.
Lagos Island crisis: Residents point accusing fingers at Police
Lagos Island is still reeling from fear and disquiet following the violence that erupted there on Monday, February 20, as two rival groups of the National Union of Road Transport Workers, NURTW, battled for supremacy and control of the area.
Has social media chat language affected good diction?
Designed as a social network to keep up with friends, share ideas, photos, links and many more in the new information order, social media, according to findings is killing creative writings among students in both secondary and higher institutions.
Suleja Bomb blast: How scores escaped death in church
Sometime last year, specifically in July, at about 7.30 pm, I heard distressed callfrom under the Bridge close to the Nigeria Brewery, I was not surprised tbecause I knew “the boys” were at their nefarious act again. I was helpless, there was virtually nothing I could do about it because I was not armed.
Mile 2 tanker fire: Survivors, LASEMA, NEMA react
“Thank God the incident happened at the night, otherwise it would have been more tragic.” This was one of several comments made by road users at Mile 2, Lagos when a fully-loaded truck with Premium Motor Spirit PMS(petrol) suddenly skidded off the turning and crashed into a motor park, resulting in a fire outbreak that killed three persons and burnt 39 vehicles in the process.
