DELE MOMODU; Special Tribute to Our Freedom Fighters

By Dele Momodu

Fellow Nigerians, as I watched President Barack Obama pay tribute to Martin Luther King Junior from my hotel room in Washington DC last Monday; I could not help but shed some tears for our unfortunate country. My mind raced through some stream of consciousness and flashes of sadness. I remembered our dead and living heroes, the authentic freedom fighters who made our democracy possible. As you read this piece, please take time to imagine my state as someone who had joined the struggle as early as a teenager and pioneer Jambite in 1978, in those good old days of Ali Must Go at Great Ife. Try to picture our unbridled radicalism and idealism at such tender age.

Mystery Death: Anambra to Exhume 15 Bodies

Floating Corpes

Anambra State Government Friday said that 15 out of the recovered 18 bodies found floating on Ezu River in Amansea, Awka North Local Government Area, last week, which were buried while investigations on the source of the bodies and possible cause of death were ongoing would be exhumed next Monday for autopsy.

Gale Of Demolition Rocks Lagos Again

Roadside traders salvages what remains of their wares after the demolition

TORN BETWEEN ITS DRIVE TO BUILD AFRICA’S MODEL CITY AND THE POLICY AGAINST ILLEGAL ACTIVITIES THAT THREATEN THE DREAM, LAGOS STATE TASKFORCE ON ENVIRONMENTAL AND SPECIAL OFFENCES (ENVIRONMENT) UNIT PENULTIMATE WEEK DEMOLISHED SHANTIES AND DENS OF OIL THIEVES in Lagos. GBOYEGA AKINSANMI WRITES

She never expected she could be caught and displaced so soon. But she knew long before now that what she was doing for a living truly violates the Lagos State Environmental and Special Offences Law as well as the new Road Traffic Law.