THE popular belief is that only the very determined motor owners can brave the recklessness on display on Lagos roads everyday. Those considered as faint-hearted had long since given up any attempt to be part of the mad rush that passes as driving in the metropolis.

By Owei Lakemfa IF a colossus walked through a people’s socio-economic and political life, leaving giant prints in the sands of history and touching positively the lives of the ordinary people, it will be difficult to capture his life in a single piece. If a man of demonstrable courage and commitment  who wielded enormous moral […]

By Bose Adebayo She is a mother of three, a widow and a food seller at the popular Oke-Odo market in Agbado-Oke-odo Local Council Development Area. In spite of her hard work, Madam Kofo, as fondly called by her friends, could not make ends meet and her three children were withdrawn from a private school. […]

By Olasunkanmi Akoni, Gbenga Ashamu & Monsur Olowopejo BARUWA,  a suburb of Lagos is not an oil-producing community just as Lagos is not classified as an oil-producing state. So, ordinarily there is no reason why the community should suffer the ravages of oil pollution or be embroiled in oil-related crisis. Indeed before 1994, life in […]

MANY innocent lives have been lost to recurring incidents of building collapse in Lagos. The most recent one took place last Sunday at No121 Ladipo Road, Mushin