Lagos Govt intervenes after alleged threats against widow, arrests suspect
By Olasunkanmi Akoni The Lagos State Government has intervened in the case of a 28-year-old widow, Tosin, who allegedly faced threats, intimidation and attempts to dispossess her of her late husband’s property eight days after his death. The intervention followed a viral video shared on Tuesday by activist Harrison Gwamnishu on his X handle, in […]
In Obubra, ex-militants strive to bury ghosts of the past
A very dark-skinned young man in his twenties who looked as if PHCN took light just as he was about to be born, scratched the back of his neck, and while stamping his feet intermittently on the ground, he screamed: “I want chop O! I want chop O! I go misbehave O!”.
MAARDEC’s Ms wheelchair contest gives voice to the physically challenged
Tobiloba Ajayi was born prematurely about 25 years ago. She suffered cerebral palsy while still in her mother’s womb and for 12 years after she was born could not walk with her two legs. She could have been thrown away by her parents but that was not to be her fate as succour was to come her way.
Lagos-Abeokuta expressway: It’s tales of woe everyday
The gridlock lasted for several hours, with the traffic stretching from Oshodi Under bridge to Ilezik on the ever-busy Lagos-Abeokuta expressway.
Post-amnesty militancy: NTAC to the rescue
Recently the success of the Federal Government’s amnesty programme was called to question when some ex-militants practically took the laws into their hands while protesting their alleged exclusion from the programme. The protesting former militants had barricaded the Mbiama bridge on the busy East-West road, a development that left most commuters plying that road stranded for several hours.
Ogun govt wins cocoa war
THE Cocoa Association of Nigeria has sheathed its sword in the ongoing cocoa war in Ogun State, agreeing to pay the new fees and levies but said the Produce Department, collecting the levies, should monitor quality of cocoa at the farm gate.
