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One Year After Dana Crash: Ignoring The Living, Remembering The Dead

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VICTIMSHAD a Boeing MD-83, operated by Dana Air, not crashed at Iju-Ishaga, a Lagos suburb on June 3, 2012, the community could have remained largely unknown.

The tragedy claimed the lives of 153 passengers, including crewmembers and six...
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Communities Raise Alarm Over Fake Soldiers

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THEY wear military fatigues and display corresponding Identity Cards. They look like it, speak like it and act like it. But they are mere impersonators.

Such appearances have prompted Rivers State communities –Igwuruta in Ikwere Local...
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Widow Waits To Touch Promises

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MRS Eunice Abbey-Kalio, widow of Commodore Datoru Abbey-Kalio, victim of the air disaster, received many sympathisers. Some of these were: Rivers State Governor, Chibuike Amaechi (represented by his deputy, Tele Ikuru) and the state’s...
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Residents, Commuters Groan, As FERMA Abandons Ikorodu-Parafa-Agbowa Road

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Parafa4RESIDENTS of Ikorodu, Parafa, Maya, Imota, Isiu and Agbowa might be experiencing a nightmare.

Their only means of linking Ijebu-Ode, Lagos, or Epe is the Ikorodu-Ijebu-Ode road. But since June 2011, sections of the road have continued to prove...
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Our Position On Lagos Roads, By Works Commissioner

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Hamzat-3The Lagos State Commissioner for Works and Infrastructure, Dr. Kadri Obafemi Hamzat, spoke recently with TUNDE ALAO, clarifying efforts to fix all Lagos State roads, explaining key challenges, and plans to meet the expectations of residents...
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COAS Commissions Market

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IT was five years in construction. Many traders, including displaced persons from the northern part of the country, were ejected from the former market to make way. Scattered, and having no alternative, the petty traders took their fate with...
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Hunter Hunted

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ENEMIES of progress; yes, that’s what they are!

Last week, these same enemies tried, without success, to impugn our number one drug control Agency and the good personality of its amiable oga at the top, who is even pushing for a sweet second...
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How Not To Rehabilitate Lagos Roads

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RoadIF an ambulance with a critically ill patient had been stuck in the holdup that ensued, it would not have mattered. A crucial task was ongoing; one of Lagos’ many roads was being repaired. And everything else must wait!

It was at Egbeda, last...
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Traditional Ruler Denies Culpability In Communal Crises

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NORMALCY has finally returned to Ajah in Lagos State, two weeks after a communal clash claimed the lives of about six persons and left several others dead.

The clash is reported to have been sparked by a misunderstanding between youths known as...
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