When the Sunborn Yatch Hotel, a floating hotel facility, berthed at the Marina waterfront recently, it elicited a lot of excitement among many Lagosians. Many saw it as a spectacular sight to behold, especially it was the first hotel of its kind to float on water in Nigeria.

Due to the strenuous and demanding nature of their job, many policemen barely find time to visit the hospital to seek medical attention for such common ailments as malaria and typhoid even when they are down with symptoms that indicate that they have been so infected.

It was a case of one man’s misfortune being another man’s blessing at the Ifesowapo Iron Market, along the Lagos-Badagry expressway, at Orile Iganmu.

The desperation on the part of many Nigerians to travel out of the country is believed to have reached an alarming level in recent times.

By Jude Njoku Amukoko, Orile Iganmu, Badia and Ajegunle are unarguably some of the worst slum settlements in Lagos. Residents of these ghettos live under terrible sanitary conditions. The drainage channels are usually blocked with heaps of refuse which cause flooding at the slightest downpour. These ghettos provide a good hide-out for criminals while the […]