After the Lagos Bomb Explosion
TheNEWS, August 5, 2002
The scene was the Corporal Below Quarters (CBQ) of the IkejaMilitary Cantonment. A forlorn crowd gathered round a bleeding and groaning young man who had suffered a deep cut on his head. The sympathisers tried out their skills in first aid administration and struggled to stem the bleeding. The young man had been hit by a big stone, which rolled off the roof of the two - storey block during the day's stormy rain. The block is one of those ravaged by the bomb explosions that rocked Lagos last January. Like most buildings in the cantonment and its environs, its roof was wrecked, the doors and windows shattered and the walls cracked. Read more...
The One-day Governor
TheNEWS, July 15,2002
Senator Bola Ahmed Tinubu stepped aside for a 16-year-old SS3 student, Otiti Ovuewhorie, who excelled in a spelling competition, to rule Lagos for one day. Read more...
It would have been his 3rd world cup: photojournalist loses hand days to leaving for Japan
TEMPO, June 6, 2002
As at 7 p.m. on Saturday, 25 May 2002, John Ebhota, veteran photo journalist of The Comet newspa-per, had a lot of fantasy. He was already imagining the kind of quality and award winning shots he would take at the Japan/Korea World Cup, which he was to cover for his paper. Ebhota was also full of thoughts of how to convince his friend, Churchy, a Japanese photo journalist, also billed to be at the soccer fiesta, to help him raise 10,000 dollars with which he intends to procure the latest model of professional cameras preparatory to his planned establishment of a state-of-the-art photographic studio.
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Varsity's most notorious sexual abuser
TEMPO, July 18, 2002
He is alleged by some on the campus as a man who has a voracious appetite for sex. Some even believe that he has "a Satanic, uncontrollable desire to savour anything in skirt". One angry source who spoke to TEMPO in Uyo last week even described him as "someone with a seeming gluttonous libido". Read more
The scene was the Corporal Below Quarters (CBQ) of the IkejaMilitary Cantonment. A forlorn crowd gathered round a bleeding and groaning young man who had suffered a deep cut on his head. The sympathisers tried out their skills in first aid administration and struggled to stem the bleeding. The young man had been hit by a big stone, which rolled off the roof of the two - storey block during the day's stormy rain. The block is one of those ravaged by the bomb explosions that rocked Lagos last January. Like most buildings in the cantonment and its environs, its roof was wrecked, the doors and windows shattered and the walls cracked. Read more...
The One-day Governor
TheNEWS, July 15,2002
Senator Bola Ahmed Tinubu stepped aside for a 16-year-old SS3 student, Otiti Ovuewhorie, who excelled in a spelling competition, to rule Lagos for one day. Read more...
It would have been his 3rd world cup: photojournalist loses hand days to leaving for Japan
TEMPO, June 6, 2002
As at 7 p.m. on Saturday, 25 May 2002, John Ebhota, veteran photo journalist of The Comet newspa-per, had a lot of fantasy. He was already imagining the kind of quality and award winning shots he would take at the Japan/Korea World Cup, which he was to cover for his paper. Ebhota was also full of thoughts of how to convince his friend, Churchy, a Japanese photo journalist, also billed to be at the soccer fiesta, to help him raise 10,000 dollars with which he intends to procure the latest model of professional cameras preparatory to his planned establishment of a state-of-the-art photographic studio.
Read more
Varsity's most notorious sexual abuser
TEMPO, July 18, 2002
He is alleged by some on the campus as a man who has a voracious appetite for sex. Some even believe that he has "a Satanic, uncontrollable desire to savour anything in skirt". One angry source who spoke to TEMPO in Uyo last week even described him as "someone with a seeming gluttonous libido". Read more
