News

Tragedy: 2 polytechnic staff electrocuted in Ekiti

Ihesiulo Grace 13 May 2020 0

Tragedy struck in Ado Ekiti on Tuesday as two staff of the Federal Polytechnic, Ado Ekiti, were electrocuted. Eyewitness informed journalists in Ado Ekiti on Tuesday, that the victims were staff of the polytechnic’s department of works and were said to have died while working on a

Crime

Son strangles father to death

Ihesiulo Grace 5 December 2019 0

Ibadan – An Iyaganku Senior Magistrates’ Court sitting in Ibadan on Thursday remanded 32-year-old Ibrahim Isiaka in Agodi Correctional Centre for allegedly strangulating his father to death. The Senior Magistrate, Mrs T. B . Ogunkanmi, who did not take the plea of the defendant, ordered that he should be remanded in custody pending receipt of […]

News

Tragedy as moving train kills Unilag undergraduate at Ikeja

Ihesiulo Grace 14 February 2018 0

…as eyewitnesses say victim’s airpiece was a hindrance A fast -8moving train coming from Sango area in Ogun State heading towards Iddo Terminal in Lagos, knocked down and killed a young man in his mid 30s yesterday at Anifowoshe area in Ikeja, Lagos State. The accident occurred along the railway line at about 8: am […]

Editorial

Kerosene adulteration and attendant tragedy

Ihesiulo Grace 4 January 2018 0

Kerosene adulteration in the country has left in its trail many casualties both in human and material. It creates cause for worry because it dates back to time. More worrisome is in the fact that the culprits seem intractable while the trend is difficult to arrest. Adulteration of the product comes at a huge cost […]

News Nigeria

New Year Eve tragedy: 5 killed, 13 injured in Ogun autocrash

Ihesiulo Grace 31 December 2017 0

Five people including three males, one female adult and a boy lost their lives at about 9.00am, on Sunday, at Ogere end of the Lagos/Ibadan Expressway, Ogun State. The incident, according to Commander Florence Okpe of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), Ogun State Command involved a white Mazda commercial vehicle with registration number DDA […]

News In Brief

Building collapse in Owerri

Ihesiulo Grace 13 August 2017 0

Several fatalities have been recorded in a building collapse in Owerri, the capital of Imo State. More to follow

News

New Year Tragedy: Siblings drown inside river, die

Ihesiulo Grace 2 January 2017 0

Tragedy struck at Oke-Ijetu along Ilesa garage in Osogbo, the state capital of Osun on the eve of new year as two siblings drowned inside a river and died. Our correspondent learnt on Sunday that the victims were teenagers. It was learnt that the victims had travelled to Osogbo to celebrate the new year festival. […]

Opinion

This Nigerian State

Ihesiulo Grace 10 April 2015 0

A man had told me that I was too ‘young and smart’ to be so ‘preoccupied by ethnicity’ and my reply to him went as such: ‘you will not understand you are not a minority. Nigeria is not a fair state.’ This Nigerian state is a tragedy, a tragedy of theatrical proportion. This Nigerian state […]