LIFEINSLUM

Jungle Justice that people thought was a thing of the past, a barbaric way of prosecuting those caught in the act of crime. It is now returning back like Viking claws into most poor rural and urban communities due to the fear of what is haunting people: Poverty. It was Saturday morning 6 January, 2018 in the very hour of 5:45am at Ojo Road, when people were going to work. I heard a sound that got me distracted and shovel off my feet from where I was. "Kill him! Kill him! He is a thief!". Immediately I heard this, I left home in a hurry to witnessed what I just heard. When I went outside to pick up the information that led to the shout. I saw a lady whose name is 'Ego' (a resident in the neighborhood) who witnessed the incident.

After I finished reading Illiterate America by Jonathan Kozol, a book that unveiled the innermost part of American illiteracy. A book that catches my attention and got me shocked. I then decided to write this.  Thus, it is no more a news that illiteracy in the world has grown rapidly in the last twenty years or more, because of the collapse of public schools caused by politicians who are responsible to its degeneration. According to Kozol, he said in America the growth of illiteracy (as at mid-80s) was high as more than 60 million Americans which cut across adult and teenagers can't read and write. In present time, it has tripled.

By Davy Fidel Freelancer G lobal warming is now a world debate among leading nations on how to tackle the occurrence directly affecting the environment. Yet, resolutions end in the lip.  Suggestions from scientific experts have been put forward on several occasions on the possible energy source to power industrialization to save our planet but such effort are always swept behind by leading nations: China, the United States, Germany, Britain etc on this worrisome issues affecting the environment.

The stories about Kirikiri Town are not a myth but fact. It is something worth writing about.  It is something worth sharing the experience of people who reside there and what possibly they go through most especially the condition of the area, the terrible roads suffering at government palm.  For a lot of people outside this community is a reserved area for more or less the fading "middle class" that in this degenerated economy is handcuffed. A reserved area is not meant for everyone to reside. However, the opposite speaks for itself. It was on Saturday November 4, 2017 that I was invited to a wedding at Kirikiri Town of a fellow colleague, teaching in the same weekend tutorial centre of Top Academic Associate (TAA). Actually, this is the first time the earth of that place bore witness visited. It was a rich experience one has to write something about it.  In spite of the hype given by commentaries and stories, however,  the very thing I saw there is a mind-blowing

In the past few weeks it has rained down hell in many parts of Lagos. It has been a serious issue that residents are now complaining over the taking over of trailers virtually in the whole of Lagos State.   Residents feel something must be done to address this crisis tilling side by side government putting peoples' life in danger;  without taking any proactive step to tackle this evolving crisis not unconnected to the degenerated economic caused by failed Public Private Partnership (PPP) agenda.

People of Ajao Estate on Sunday 18 June, 2017 held a Town Hall meeting to deliberate the crazy billing issued to them by Eko Distribution Company, Ikeja; and for them to agitate no disconnection in the Estate.   The group that called for the meeting who has being leading the resistance is Forum for Evolution and Progressive Development (FEPD) the leading organ in the struggle against overestimated billing in Ajao Estate/community for some time now.

Tuesday 28 November, 2017 supposed to be the day Justice Nwodo preside the preliminary injunction between the Six Hundreds and Eighty Eight forceful retrenched and victimized dock workers versus Victoria Haastrup owner of Energy Neftegas Limited (ENL).  Unfortunately and sadly,  the Judge didn't sit to preside the hearing.  According to the Clerk who announced the new date of the workers to be Wednesday 21 February, 2018 said. "All cases under Justice Nwodo are adjourned till the Judge officially sit to preside all hearing".