For four children of the Hassan family, they left home on that fateful day with their colleagues from the Ojota riverine community to their school, which takes about 15 minutes on water. The school is located at Igbede, another community on land. They were filled with joy and hoped to learn new things at school, [...]
Mr. Amofokhai Audu had been visiting the Lagos State Government Secretariat, Alausa, Ikeja in Lagos, South West Nigeria for over seven years. One thing he hated most was for him to be pressed, a situation that would warrant him to use any of the ‘rest rooms’ in the ministries. The last time he did, he [...]
In the last four months since the Federal Government, through the Federal Road Safety Commission, FRSC announced the suspension of issuance of the old number plate to motorists, thousands of Lagosians who just purchased new vehicles have had a harrowing experience getting the new number plates. They drove their vehicles on the streets of Lagos [...]
Thousands of grassroots men and women, Community Development Associations, CDAs, community-based organisations, transport unions and several others thronged the Police College, Ikeja, Lagos State, southwest Nigeria, to celebrate grassroots achievements. Very early in the morning, CDA members from all the Local Governments and Local Council Development Areas and others had started arriving the Police College. [...]
With a population of 18 million and a population growth of eight per cent( of about 600,000 per annum), Lagos has been projected to emerge as the third largest mega city in the world, after Tokyo in Japan and Bombay in India, by year 2015 with a projected population of 24.5 million, according to the [...]
Gradually, the monthly environmental sanitation which used to be observed every last Saturday of the month is fading and our city gets dirtier. Some parts of the city are cleanier with beautiful landscaping, but majority of streets remain dirty with stinking gutters which residents have refused to clear. Sometimes, it is not the fault of [...]
Eleven years ago when I came to the Centre of Excellence, as we used to call Lagos in Kaduna then, I was so excited I couldn’t wait to go round the city, to feel its pulse and perhaps drink of its beauty. I also wanted to meet the classy and sophisticated people, as I was [...]
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