Anybody who has any structure on the land without lawful government certification is an illegal squatter. What the state government offered to pay was technically not compensation but simply a commercial bonus to encourage the squatters to go and live a normal human life among normal human beings.

By Ochereome Nnanna, George Onah & Jimitota Onoyume PORT HARCOURT—If you visit any of the Waterfront settlements  in Port Harcourt, you are unlikely to want to come back unless something or someone dear to you is one of the victims trapped in their bowels. Ajegunle in Lagos is touted as Nigeria’s foremost slum settlement. Compared […]

APPARENTLY looking for a more practicable way of giving succor to the disabled, MTN Nigeria, last week, at the 2009 International Day for persons with disability commemoration put about 470 disabled persons on wheels.

Surprisingly, the case in Nigeria was a bit different because aside of having the conventional landmines, which were made by the English, we also had the problem of the locally manufactured landmines, which are more harmful, more deadly than the conventional land mines.

The civil war ended close to 40 years ago and it is sad to realize that we still have landmines, explosives, and all manner of bombs still littering the landscapes in the whole of the South East. The matter is made worse now, not just for the fact that these explosives are there but the fact that even the ones that have been recovered have not been moved out and destroyed