For about three years, 24-year-old butcher, Ibrahim Jafarau, has been bedridden, no thanks to the bullets of a yet to be identified officer of the Benue State Police, who allegedly shot and injured his spinal cord in the Wadata area of Makurdi, the state capital.

This is a new Lagos as things are no longer what they used to be in the state. A good example is the queue culture taking place at bus stands as against what obtained in the past where commuters clash when boarding commercial buses.

Being the first working day of the week, 35-year-old Salisu Olalekan began the day with a lot of plans hoping he would be able to achieve them before the end of the week. He didn’t. He died in tragic circumstances.

Penultimate week, Sunday Vanguard published a story of auto parts dealer, Qassim Balogun, a father of two, who was down with heart disease that was threatening his life. Unfortunately, before the story was published, Balogun succumbed to the cold hands of death.

SIGNS of abject poverty in the society was evident on Thursday in Akure, Ondo State capital as miscreants exchanged blows over the sharing formular to be adopted for the 11 cows crushed to death by a luxurious bus.

A father of two, Qassim Balogun, is down with heart disease that is threatening his life.

IKARE, in Akoko North East area of Ondo State, was turned into a war arena on Tuesday, when a -25-member armed robbery gang invaded it, killing no fewer than 21 persons including eight policemen, one undergraduate, two secondary school pupils and five bankers.

Mrs Gladys Ogoo Ezenwanne was on her way to her shop on Monday when she eavesdropped on a conversation by the driver of the commercial bus and his conductor lamenting that the popular Balogun Market, Lagos was on fire.

In Sunday Vanguard of last week, we reported the case of 41-year-old Festus Aimufua who allegedly murdered his lady friend, Ms Rose Aifuwa, on Christmas Day. Aifuwa, a mother of four, was based in Austria but returned to Nigeria with her Austrian passport last December to celebrate the Yuletide with her family. According to the deceased family, Festus allegedly killed their daughter because the deceased was requesting for the money allegedly owed her by the suspect.

AS the clock ticked towards 12 midnight on December 31, 2014, the family of Ekee looked into the new year with hope when, suddenly, three suspected assassins appeared from nowhere on a motorcycle (Okada) and shot dead their breadwinner, Chief Emmanuel Denis Ekee, JP.

SHE looked innocent when she was paraded among 44 suspected criminals said to have been terrorizing the people of Ondo State.

Mr Hosanna Jalogho-Williams, an Itsekiri, is a chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Delta State. In this interview, he bares his mind on the botched commissioning of the EPZ project in the state describing it as an affront on the Itsekiri people. He also comments on the emergence of Senator Ifeanyi Okowa as the PDP governorship candidate among other issues

An average wife, particularly from southern Nigeria, dreads being a widow because of the unpleasant experiences associated with it.

In a season many are talking politics, promising the electorate heaven on earth if voted to power in 2015, one individual, a mother, a professional and an avowed believer in the possibility of changing the world by educating the child remains unyielding in her chosen pastime. Mrs Rali Abdulsalam, a business analyst/accountant with over 14 years of varied work experience in oil and gas sector has a pet project – Kiddies Talent Hunt TV Reality show, which she started in 2013.

Mad cow disease or Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy, BSE, is a transmissible, slowly progressive, degenerative, and fatal disease affecting the central nervous system of adult cattle. Researchers believe the infectious agent that causes mad cow disease is an abnormal version of a protein normally found on cell surfaces, called prion. For reasons still unknown, this protein becomes altered and destroys nervous system tissue such as the brain and spinal cord.