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Written by U.D. Okechukwu To catch up on previous episodes visit http://reportersgc.blogspot.com/search/labels/storyseries and use the search button for quick opening. …Continued from last week “He said his name is Michael” Ramipatra replied. Michael looked at Alegribusa’s rumpled face and was immediately intimidated by it. Rita on the other hand knew her father well as the strictest dad ever to live on the face of the earth. She knew she was already in deep trouble.

A mother has stabbed her eight-month-old baby boy at a police barrack in Abakaliki, Ebonyi State.

While promoting love and friendliness between all humans, we have been attracted once again to a true friendship story between two friends for 15 years after we talked about three male friends who have been friends for 20 years two weeks ago.

A caved section of a road on 7th Avenue in Festac Town Lagos. PHOTO: TONYE BAKARE By Tonye Bakare When Nigeria hosted the second Festival of Arts and Culture in 1977, a new settlement was birthed in Lagos, with the primary aim of housing the participants that came for the festival. Festac Town consists of seven avenues and numerous arterials that facilitate ease of movement. The over 5,000-unit housing estate has evolved into a city-within-a-city and now serves as the headquarters of Amuwo Odofin Local Government. In the early days of Nigeria’s movie industry, Festac Town provided ready-made locations for filmmakers. Its beautiful layout, clean environment, low crime rate and well-paved roads made the town an ultimate choice for producers. But today, Festac Town is losing most of its allure that made it one of the best places to live in Lagos then. Games of roads and ditches… The avenues and the arterial roads are still where they were, but not as they...

E-money gifts comedian Okey Bakassi, Yaw, 4 domestic staff cars on birthday Nigerian business man, Emeka Okonkwo, also known as iam_emoney1, has gifted Nigerian comedian, Okey Bakassi and five of his domestic staff cars to celebrate his birthday. In a video shared on his brother K cee’s Instagram page, the businessman is seen presenting the cars to the beneficiaries. He wrote, “Every February 18th which is today your birthday, you always have a way of putting smiles, joy and happiness in the lives of many, from families, domestic staffs, company staffs, friends and entertainers by giving out luxury cars, money, houses, phones and some many other goodies, the spirit of giving we have in the family keep growing on you every other day, today you are doing the same thing by giving out brand new 6ix luxury cars. "Which the beneficiaries are-Okey bakasi-Gold Toyota Land CruiserYaw-Black Toyota Land CruiserYusuf (staff)-Black Toyota hiluxSunny (staff)-Black Toyota hiluxJulian (staff)-whi...

A dormitory manager and five others have been detained in southern Turkey after a fire claimed the lives of 11 schoolgirls and a teacher, reports say.

The Lagos State Government on Wednesday said it would no longer allow indiscriminate parking of vehicles on the road networks across the state on the basis of queuing up for Premium Motor Spirit otherwise known as fuel, just as it threatened to sanction any erring filling stations and motorists who flout the directive.

The Nigerian mission in South Africa on Friday said it had waded into issues surrounding the alleged quit order given to Nigerians by two communities in that country. Martin Cobham, Nigeria’s Acting High Commissioner in South Africa, told the News Agency of Nigeria on telephone from Pretoria that the mission was on top of the situation. The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the Nigeria Union in South Africa had accused two communities in that country of ordering Nigerians residing within their territories to vacate. Nigeria’s Acting High Commissioner in South Africa said that he had engaged in processes to nip in the bud whatever crisis or situation that could affect the welfare of Nigerians living in South Africa. “I engaged the union leader who has given me the graphic details of what happened. “In view of that I have engaged with the authorities here to bring in the community, the police and the Nigerians living there for a meeting so as to preve...

A daily consumption of coffee may lower the risk of diseases, such as: diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, Parkinson disease and some forms of cancer,” a nutritionist, Miss Nike Oshinowo, has said.