FMC Nguru CMD loses twin daughters
….Medical community mourns Hadiya, Aisha Usman By Maryam Abdul-aziz Usman, Damaturu The Chief Medical Director of the Federal Medical Centre, Nguru, Yobe State, Dr Hadiza Usman Abdullahi, has lost her twin daughters, Dr Hadiya Usman and Dr Aisha Usman, two days apart. Hadiya, a medical doctor, died on Friday, while her twin sister, Aisha, a […]
Oil pollution: Community cries out for help
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 […]
Sacked by flood : Lagos Island residents send SOS to govt
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
Life in wheelchair: Our travails, our challenges
Our challenges are numerous as an association that sees to the welfare of persons with disability, especially the spinal cord injured ones
When Mormon hands helped to keep Lagos clean
If you have visited the Ikeja General Hospital lately, you would have noticed a blocked drainage that could only have been a breeding place for mosquitoes
NURTW, commuters relive anguish on bad roads
***As Fashola flags off Bus Franchise Scheme for Iyana-Ipaja-Maryland By Olasunkanmi Akoni & Monsur Olowopejo For long they bore their suffering in silence, as they daily contended with most of the bad roads across the Lagos metropolis which had become increasingly dangerous and unsafe over the years. But now they no longer think that silence […]
