The tarred federal highway that once knit this historic community in Calabar Municipality together has been erased. In its place yawns a crevice, a raw, widening gash that has swallowed a hospital, car parks, offices, and homes nurtured for decades.

For landowners and property developers in Benin Kingdom, October 2016 was supposed to be the dawn of a new era.

The rain had barely stopped when 62-year-old Mama Tokoni Ebidor waded through ankle deep water in front of her home in Biogbolo, one of the many low lying suburbs of Yenagoa, the Bayelsa State capital.  

The crumbling walls of County Grammar School, Ikwerre/Etche, once celebrated as Nigeria’s best public school may soon witness a new dawn of revival following a pledge by the Chairman of Ikwerre Local Government Area, Hon. Charles Wobodo, to partner with his Etche counterpart in a bid to restore the institution’s lost glory.

The controversy over the concession of King’s College, Lagos, to the King’s College Old Boys’ Association, KCOBA, by the Federal Government may be far from over, as parents and other stakeholders are mobilising for a mass protest against the move.