TREE planting has always been encouraged as trees are known to enhance the natural beauty of the environment. That was the case with Igbogbo/Bayeku Road in the Ikorodu area of Lagos which enjoys a peaceful ambience because of the trees that line it from one end to the other, casting a beautifying shade over road users. History has it that the trees were planted over two decades ago. This explains why many, for a long time, delighted in taking a walk from Igbogbo to Bayeku while savouring the shade and cool breeze the trees provided.

Some traders in Nworie Lane Industrial Market, Owerri, as well as the management of United Bank for Africa Plc, Douglas Road branch, Owerri, will definitely not forget Monday, July 9, 2012, in a hurry. This is a day a mysterious fire razed part of the Industrial Market, some adjoining buildings and two floors of the bank!

AS Ramadan approaches, David Emeka Kalu, a poet and freelance journalist in this humourous piece, “Slow Down Food, Lemme Catch Up Witcha!”, writes about discovering Lagos’s street delicacies and authentic local cuisine.

IN Lagos State, Access 57 stands for the 20 local governments and 37 Local Council Development Areas with the sole purpose of bringing government closer to the people.

THE extra security measures taken by the Federal Government in forestalling any possible attack on the Kirikiri Prison, may be taking its tolls on residents and traders of the area following the deployment of soldiers from the 81 Division Lagos, to guard the prison.