My wife died two years ago, then grief opened door for madness
Before then, she had been sick for a long time; the kind of sickness that drains everybody in the house - “The person caring for the sick is sometimes sicker than the sick person.”
2012: A new year, new challenges, old problems
IN the next couple of hours, 2012, the year of multiple expectations will be ushered in and 2011 will be consigned to the dustbin of history. However, the same cannot be said of the avalanche of unresolved, partly resolved and yet to be articulated problems that 2011 left in its trail.
Jos: Witnesses’ accounts of a decade of killings
At around 4 p.m. on our way to a wedding in Mangu, two of the cars took a wrong turn in Barkin Ladi local government area. The first car, a small Mazda, contained eight people. I was driving the second car. We were all Hausa-Fulani from Jos. The other car was ahead of us. I stopped to ask for directions. …
Subscribers groan under high cost of pay TV in Nigeria
Subscribers to pay television services in Nigeria have expressed dismay over the tariffs charged by the service providers who seem to be exploiting the tax regulation by the authorities.
Months of miseries herald a hazy new year
IF turning back the hands of the time, was a possibility, many Nigerians would not be in a hurry to turn back the time to 2011. This is why there is a hurry to see this year gone with history in this part of the world. But even as the New year is ushered in within the next 48 hours, there are palpable fears that events of 2011, especially the spate of bomb blasts would spillover to 2012.
HELP! Lagosians beg FG, state govt over Cele – Ikotun Road
For residents of Ejigbo, Idimu, Ikotun and other surrounding Lagos communities, the best Christmmas and new year gift their leaders both at federal and state levels can give them is to rehabilitate the dilapidated Ejigbo- Ikotun road.
