By Bose Adebayo & Fredrick Okopie When the downpour started in the early hours of Thursday, commuters and motorists at the ever-busy Apapa/Oshodi Expressway were prepared for the usual gridlock as such downpour had always resulted in the road being flooded. True to their fear, this was exactly what happened. But then they also underestimated […]

By Kingsley Adegboye Lagos City Hall, the foremost seat of     local government council administration in Nigeria which got burnt some years ago is now wearing a new look. The total reconstruction of the Lagos Island Local Government Secretariat and finishing with the state of the art building materials have transformed the edifice into an […]

By Evelyn Usman Remember  October 22, 2005, Bellview air crash which claimed a total of 117 passengers on board the ill fated Boeing 737-200 air craft? Remember also, that among those whose lives were sent to an unprepared grave by the crash which occurred shortly after take-off that fateful Saturday night, was the Chief Executive […]

By Chioma Obinna When a parent becomes sick and dies,  the child is usually affected in several ways that could leave  him/her traumatised leading to emotional, physical and mental distress that could undermine that child’s overall health and development. Unfortunately, the 2.5 million Nigerian children orphaned by AIDS(excluding the ones in the Niger Delta areas […]

By Bose Adebayo THE young lady was obviously pre-occupied with her thoughts and so did not notice the woman and the powerfully built man approaching her at a rapid pace. She had just crossed the busy expressway and was heading towards a row of commercial  buses presumably to board a bus. She was soon confronted […]