Flooding: Lagos, Ogun residents count losses

 

By Linus Obogo, Segun Ajiboye, Miriam Ndikanwu and Oziegbe Okoeki

30/06/2012

Call it a day of rage and bedlam and you may not be wrong. It was a day the heavens’ violent and relentless yawning left residents of Lagos and Ogun States at the mercy of nature’s cruel hands.

All across the two states, the story bear a familiar refrain. Flood, flood and flood everywhere. While the rains came as a welcome relief from the baking heat that endured between January to April this year, its present offering has come, rather as a pill too lethal to swallow.

With residents displaced from their homes and roads taken over by flood waters, this is one gift nature has unleashed with a tinge of vengeance. And since Thursday, from Lagos to Ogun State, virtually everyone has been counting his loses and lamenting his anguish, just as every home has equally been counting its misery.

Azazi’s troubled tenure By Linus Obogo, Assistant Editor

 

 When he was appointed On October 4, 2010 as the new National Security Adviser by President Goodluck Jonathan, succeeding retired Colonel Kayode Are, there was so much expectation from Gen. Andrew Owoye Azazi (rtd).

Azazi, a former Chief of Army Staff and later Chief of Defence Staff, took over from the acting NSA, Colonel Kayode Are (rtd), who held the position temporarily following the resignation of Gen. Aliyu Mohammed Gusau.

His appointment was in keeping to Jonathan’s promise to overhaul the nation’s security apparatus following the October 1 Independence Day bomb blasts in Abuja.