A YEAR after the Lagos State Government released a white paper to checkmate the storage and sale of firecrackers; there was still no dull moment at the Lagos Island markets where these products were sold especially as the Yuletide draws near.

Wale Ogunjimi and his fiancee, Roseline Barnabas recently got what they never bargained for. Two weeks to their wedding, they were robbed at gun point at the popular Idumota market where they had gone to do the shopping for their wedding, The windscreen and windows of their Honda Civic car were smashed by the die-hard robbers who dispossessed them of their phones, I-Pad and ATM cards.

THE auditorium of Quorra, at the Naval Training Command, Apapa , Lagos was a beehive of activities last Wednesday, as women later discovered to be widows of fallen naval personnel thronged to the venue.

TOWARDS the end of every year, the nation is besieged with a different kind of weather. The weather, which comes during the Yuletide season usually comes with it excitement in the air.

A look at 32 year-old Sani Saidu , will never pass him for a betrayer, let alone a killer , owing to his quiet disposition and soft way of speaking. But his disposition has only proved to be deceptive after all , as he is currently cooling his heels at the Lagos State Criminal Investigations Department ,SCID, Yaba , Lagos, over a case of alleged murder.