Its been said so many times but no measures have been taking, our fire services need to work better on their speed in order to get to the scene on time.

A six-year-old boy was burnt to de-th in a fire that engulfed a building in Iyana-Ifako area of Gbagada Lagos, Tuesday night

The deceased, identified simply as Abbey, was said to have been sleeping when the incident occurred. Two of his elder brothers were said to have been rescued by sympathisers.

 The fire affected 10 rooms in the building located at 3, Ogunde Street, off Somori, Iyana-Ifako. The cause of the fire, said to have started at 9p.m., could not be ascertained.

 While occupants of the buildings scampered from their respective apartments for safety, eyewitnesses said shouts for help from some children in one of the rooms were heard.

Some of the sympathisers said to have gone for rescue mission, discovered that the door was locked. One of the eyewitnesses said: “Their parents locked them inside and went out.

Nobody knew where they went to. The door was forced opened and two of them rescued, though one of them was slightly burnt. “It was while they got outside that the rescued children said their brother was still inside. By then the fire had engulfed the whole building and nobody could go in again.”

The Director, Lagos State Fire Service, Mr. Rasaq Fadipe, said fire trucks from Ilupeju and Ikeja responded to the distress call. He said the charred remains of the six-year-old boy was recovered

There was traffic confusion and fear on Saturday 26th October in Maryland Ikeja, Lagos state after a lorry carrying a trailer had an accident near the Maryland roundabout.

According to the LASTMA officials the lorry heading towards Maryland bus stop from Ikeja lost its brakes and crashed over the median and into oncoming traffic colliding with a volvo car and a jeep.

Efforts to move the vehicle seemed impossible for most of the day, thus causing serious traffic on Ikorodu Road and also Bank Anthony way.

Courtesy of Gistmania

I believe after reading this most Nigerians will see buses as the safest means of travelling.

Barely a month after the Associated Airlines plane crash, another air disaster was averted at the Nnamdi Azikwe Airport, Abuja on Monday as a Med-View Airlines aircraft from Lagos suddenly took to the air again at the point of landing in Abuja.

Reports that the airline Flight VL2104 which had about 150 passengers on board took off from the Murtala Muhammed Airport, Lagos at noon and was scheduled to land in Abuja at about 1.05pm.

The pilot had already announced final descent into Abuja and asked all passengers and cabin crew to fasten their seat belts only for him to suddenly take off to the air again with barely 30 seconds to touch ground.
Definitely, his action caused big panic, commotion among the passengers who bursted into prayers, yells to know what was happening, especially when the plane entered into turbulent weather on air.

A PUNCH correspondent who was among the passengers while telling his story, said that among the passengers were five different complete families.
One of the passengers, a nursing mother, who was breastfeeding her son at the time the pilot took off again withdrew the breast from the boy’s mouth and started praying profusely while the baby’s cry rented the air.

It wasn't until after about three minutes of gaining altitude, the pilot announced that he had decided to take off again to avoid colliding with an aircraft that was on ground.
According to the pilot, after he had been granted clearance to land, it was later discovered that the other aircraft was not fast enough, hence his decision to take off.

The aircraft hovered for another 20 minutes in the air before finally landing at about 1:30pm.

When the plane finally landed, the passengers struggled to disembark.
“Are you still sitting down? Let me rush down in case it will suddenly take off again,” a middle-aged man was heard asking one of his co-passengers.

A Nigerian night club bouncer has been jailed for seven years in the UK for molesting a woman in her own home. Idreez Popoola (pictured above), who twice dodged deportation, brutally attacked his victim on 29th December 2012, eleven months after he successful appealed his deportation ruling.

Prosecutors said Popoola met his victim while working as an agency-employed bouncer outside Bar So in Northampton town centre. He took her out for drinks then managed to convince the woman to take him back to her home. It was in her home that he attacked her.

Popoola, 34, was jailed for seven years at a court in Northampton on October 18. He was also ordered to sign the Sex Offenders’ Register for life. The court told him he would be automatically deported back to Nigeria on his release from prison.