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.
Petty traders empowered in Lagos
IN a bid to boost the capital base of traders in the Lagos Central Senatorial District of Lagos State, Mrs Oluremi Tinubu recently flagged off a pet project tagged the Petty Traders Empowerment Capital Scheme, PETECS.
NUTRW factional clash: Residents count losses
DAYS after two rival factions of the National Union of Road Transport Workers, NURTW, engaged themselves in a bloody clash at the Ijebu-Ode motor park, many residents of Ijebu-Ode in Ogun State, are still counting their losses, especially families who lost dear ones or had their property destroyed in the mayhem.
Ogun takes step on schools inspection
The Ogun State Commissioner for Eduction, Science and Technology, Olusegun Odubela, has disclosed that the State government would soon form a joint national inspection of schools with the Federal Inspectorate of Education in the state.
When gas explosion in Lagos evoked fear of Boko Haram
MANY Lagosians obviously had not bought the assurances from officials of the Lagos State government and militant Yoruba socio-cultural group, the Oodua Peoples Congress, OPC, that Lagos is safe from Boko Haram-sponsored bomb attacks.
Navy warns against unprofessionalism
The Nigerian Navy has charged officers and ratings of the organisation to always strive to uphold the ethics of the profession, saying it was the hallmark upon which the military was built. In this vein it announced that it will go to any length to unravel the cause of the alleged murder of a female rating by her live-in-boyfriend, a seaman. The seaman identified as Harry was reported to have murdered the rating identified as Itoya over allegation of infidelity.
