FIRE ON THE MOUNTAIN
•Bad news for people living with AIDS as dawn fire consumes anti-retroviral drugs warehouse in Lagos
By TESSY OKOYE
Wednesday, May 7, 2008

The building lies almost bare like a wasteland, with only occasional glow from smouldering wood and other combustible materials speaking silently about the devastation that visited the place. | Read more

• Rage of the gods
• Special class teacher
• Cruel fate
• DEATH TRAP
• Terrorized by floods, Benin landlords cry for help
• Special bash for disabled kids
• Church offers free medicare
• Doctor of tyres
• Day Ijaw women united to end crisis in the Niger Delta
• SAD TALE
• HELPING HANDS
• How man hypnotised me and stole my car – Driver
• BABY AFTER 19 YEARS
• Fury on the road
• Cultural fes
• Parable of mustard seed
• TO FASHOLA IN TEARS
• Community cries out over bad road
• Testimonies on marble
• Our lives, our woes
• Ball of fire
• Day the world came to Queensland
• 10 awards and still counting
• With campaign against AIDS, church marks 60th anniversary
• Ikorudu youths rejoice
• Parable of mustard seed
• CAMP OF HORROR
• Day of bliss at CTEM
• Day of old boys
• MIRACLE CHILD
• CARNIVAL
• Time to celebrate
• Centre of peace
• FIRE ON THE MOUNTAIN
• Still licking their wounds
• Party time for the physically challenged
• Month old baby dies in midday inferno
• THIS IS ABEOKUTA
• Church showers orphans, less privileged kids with love
• Festival of songs as Royal Choice holds covenant service
• 19-year-old deaf and dumb mother cries for help
• Callous landlord
• Sad end of dutiful customs officer
• LOOSE CANNONS
• Wicked fire
• Carnival at Our Lady’s as Cardinal Okogie dedicates church building
• GHOST OF SAULA
• Gone with the flame
• Mark of honour
• Nigerians speak on expectations for the year 2008
• Minister bemoans deplorable state of Kirikiri and Ikoyi Prisons
• Lagos signs operational pact on BRT
• BABY JESUS
• Death so gruesome
• This lady owns the newest taxi-cab in Warri
• DIRTY LAGOS
• Fuel price headache
• Day of ‘Old boys’
• XMAS BLUES
• Couple’s day
• Lagos CAN gets new executive
• BIG TREAT
• Students honour Borno first lady
• When road repair becomes curse
• Funfair as Forever Living celebrates Success Day
• HIGHWAY TO HELL
• With Phebe festival, Wurkum thanks the gods
• TRIUMPHAL ENTRY
• Pomp as UBA unveils Issele-Uku office in Delta State
• Looming disaster
• Ubulu-Uku indigenes thrill Lagos with culture heritage
• BRIDGE OBASANJO BUILT
• Tears, pains as 3 buildings go up in flame
• Arabian night
• DEATH TRAP
• Under rain and sun, Latter-day Saints clean up Nigeria
• Milk of kindness from Soroptimists
• BIZARRE
• Day youths learnt about evils of illegal migration
• TEARS AND PAINS
• GOD BLESS THE KING
• Bad roads cut off Iganmu
• It’s celebration time
• ANGRY COMPATRIOTS
• Open access
• NGO moves to empower youths
• VIGIL FOR THE NIGHTMARE
• Face-off
• Tears for Polo Park
• Succour for flood victims
• LOOMING DANGER
• Magic of LEEMP
• Wazobia honour for Wema Bank
• Rotary Club bags international award
• HIGHWAY TO HELL
• Bishop oterai’s day of joy
• PRIMITIVE FURY
• MIRACLE BABY!
• Spiritual tonic
• Testimony galore as church celebrates anniversary
• TEARS ON THE PLATEAU
• UNICEF sends off two staff members
• Succour for motherless triplets
• DISASTER WAITING TO HAPPEN
• Spiritual reception for Fashola at AUS
• Pomp as new prison officers pass out of school
• THIS IS TERRIBLE!
• Tragedy waiting to happen
• Miracle baby
• Refugees at home
• RAIN OF TEARS
• Operation rescue Lagos-Benin road
• People’s parliament
• Kids, schools put smile on faces of underprivileged
• HELL WAY
• Bulldozer rolls over Lagos community
• Innerwheel empowers widows
• BRIDGE OF DEATH
• Bus rapid trauma (BRT)
• Earth tremor at Naval headquarters
• FEAST FOR THE GODS
• Benue wears new look
• Artefacts beautify Calabar
• Day Pastor Odukoya taught men importance of embracing Christ
• SORROW AND TEARS
• Even as roads are in bad condition, good ones are destroyed for cables in
• Halleluyah as Igwe of Catholic Church is installed
• Benue wears new look
• DAY OF RAGE
• From pothole to crater
• Quareeb family celebrates 8th anniversary in style
• Brothers at war
• ONE, TWO, THREE
• Down but not out
• Church gives prisoners hope
• Smiles as LDS Charities donates boreholes to three Lagos communities
• HARD TIMES
• Igwe seeks end to human rights abuse
• Journalists fight AIDS
• ‘A man’s encounter with strange voices’
• THIS BOY HAS A DREAM
• Pomp as Ansar-Ud-Deen sends off Tinubu
• DEATH TRAP
• Even as Obasanjo bows out of office, his wife mounts the throne
• Mu’azu’s parting gift to Bauchi
• TEARS AND PAINS
• Stranded Bakassi indigenes shout
• In black outfits, women mourn election fraud
• The world of tanker drivers
• Yar’Adua ’ll soon have a befitting Presidential lodge in Katsina
• A community’s headache
• At last, Enugwu-Adazi gets Obi
• First time voters... and the veterans
• Home for Mother Theresa
• ONE ARM ORPHAN
• New deal for discharged prisoners
• Imoga community reels under neglect
• Human rights amazon
• KINGS OF THE ROAD
• Executive corps member
• Pomp, praises as Muslims turban faithful
• ONE, TWO, THREE BABIES
• Akera community rolls out drums for Daniel, others
• Group puts smile on faces of war veterans
• Pomp as Kanuri communty turbans new Sarkin Kasuwa
• FRIEND OF LUNATICS
• The rich also cry
• Pomp as kids showcase culture
• Yabatech bubbles for WAPOGA
• Ladies’ night
• Fashanu trains youths on tyre protection
• Spiritual alliance
• War game
• Day of rage
• Another kunta kunte
• John Holt empowers bike riders with Riding Academy
• YemKem’s Pathfinder Hotel lights up Ekiti
• TRIPLETS
• Old couples’ day
• Lions roar in Abeokuta
• Hospital for cars
• If I’d kept quiet, I’ll be dead now • HIV positive student graduates from NIJ, finds
• Rotary club storms Badagry with gifts
• At 70, this man is still single
• Silent philanthropist
• Pomp as Igbo, Hausa honour Fashola
• Water, water everwhere
• Good news for bread lovers
• Bad road gives estate residents migraine
• City of garbage
• CRUEL TONGUES
• Making the lame walk
• New king born
• Operation keep Lagos clean
• FRIEND OF BABIES
• MUM, I’M SUFFERING
• Uga showcases culture at Obuofor festival

• Lady car doctors
• Pomp as Ijebu-Jesha honours Awoyinfa
• FIRE FOR FIRE
• Agony of a mother
• Fuel fire: One month after, residents still in agony
• New year eve disaster
• CRUEL FATE
• Better life for rural people
• For your eyes only
• Disabled with difference
• ARMY OF OCCUPATION
• Life under Carter Bridge
• Eminent elite visit SOS village
• Angels on wheels
• AT DAGGERS DRAWN
• Abule Egba inferno: The day after
• After nine years of driving, Tina, the danfo driver wants to return to hairdressing
• A tortuous day on Lagos–Ibadan expressway
• LOVE BOAT
• With red caps, Igbo paint Ibadan red
• Celebration time at Assemblies of God
• Day Lagos stood still for Orsu people
• WEDLOCK OF GODS
• Pomp as Enyiogugu showers sons, daughters with award
• Kano residents fault okada ban
• Obosi people thank God in style
• GLORIFIED GHETTO
• ADC plane crash survivor thanks God
• FESTAC residents give Guru Maharaji quit notice
• Day Liz Benson mesmerized Lagosians with God’s word
• SUPERMAN
• Erosion eats up Ekwulobia
• Day IWF honoured philanthropists
• First beaten, twice shy
• Toast to refugees
• Fanfare as Customs moves to improve image
• DOG CALLED JANE
• New king is born
• All for humanity
• Group puts smile on faces of kids suffering from cancer
• HURRICANE ITIRE
• For Liberian refugees, it’s time to go
• Prayer as Cardinal Okogie dedicates church
• His people’s servant
• ROAD TO POWER
• Rotary amplifies vision of Okota residents
• All for the less privileged
• Encomium as friends see off man of God
• Fear of evil day
• Ugwunagbo people unite in style
• Soldiers display combat skills in Lagos
• Unmasked
• NIGHTMARE
• Pain, anguish on Benin-Ore road
• Measles: Mass immunization kicks off in Lagos
• American evokes slave trade memory
• MODERN DAY EDEN
• He came home to bury his mum and became king
• Day law students went to battle for Akande’s sake
• Even in death, Bimbo Odukoya speaks
• HOME-BOUND
• Cruel fate
• Cultural display as Ndigbo honour one of their own
• A free splash of medicare
• FUN DAY FOR KIDS
• Ehindero seeks cops’ wives’ support
• Ecomiums as Mbang clocks 70
• DAY OF CELEBRATION
• Homily as AYF celebrates 30th anniversary
• Communities at war over land
• PDP showers motorcycles on stalwarts
• Flood takes over Abuja suburb
• Ladoja’s men converge as Jagun Balogun is installed
• Lagos drivers unveil corporate office
• Festac residents cry foul over demolition exercise
• BAKASSI OF CAMEROUN
• Air Force rolls out drum for new chief
• Land causes trouble in Igbo-Efon
• NIJ upgrades photo standard
• INCREDIBLE
• Day Nigeria, Switzerland signed the dotted lines
• Rousing reception for ANLCA’s new boss
• International revival for Nigeria over 2007
• ACROBATIC CYCLIST
• Change of guards
• Ladipo market bubbles again
• PHCN lights up customers’ faces
• Evening tragedy
• Kindred dance for new Oyo SSG
• Seadogs put smiles on faces of handicapped children
• Bye-bye to traffic congestion
• NDDC brings joy to Adagbabiri
• Foundation tackles HIV/AIDS pandemic
• Friends of success
• Ostracised man calls for justice from exile
• KID SAVIOUR•Loses arm in a rescue bid
• Prison college turns out new graduates
• HUB OF GERMANY
• Day foreign missionary spoke Hausa, Igbo, Yoruba
• Day Bayelsa stoodstill for AIDS
• Students learn ethics in style
• SILENT CANNON
• Day media men condemned rights violation
• Road unions raise alarm on plans to take over motor park
• RCCG parish marks six years with pomp and ceremony
• SOCCERMANIA
• Retired teachers cry out over unpaid pension
• Day Miss Teen showed milk of kindness
• Bulldozers visit FESTAC Town soon
• FROM AMERICA WITH MIRACLES
• Ubakala women lift orphans
• Nigerian boy wins award in US varsity
• Day of figure as new chartered accountants are inducted
• HEAVY BURDEN-He wants to get this load off his back
• Graffiti sets Damaturu ablaze
• Smiles in Badagry West
• LEEMP gives communities lift
• Funfair as skill acquisition centre is commissioned
• DEATH TRAP
• Osun indigenes testify to sweetness of ‘honey’
• Breast talk at cancer workshop
• Spiritual treat at church’sanniversary
• SOMETHING FISHY!
• Widows, students drink IWF’s milk of kindness
• Oyinlola gives Ejigbo drinking water after 52 years
• Let there be light
• Boost for rural development
• DAY OF COLOURS
• Gowon, other generals, see off ex-naval chief
• Boost for rural development
• Ogudu youths become socially responsible
• Politician survives gun attack
• Old girls make day of handicapped youths
• Iloffa community honours Monarch
• Be at peace with the police, Air Force Chief urges his men
• FROM BRAZIL WITH LOVE
• Foundation lights up lives of oldies
• Community destroyed over killing of two brothers
• Day youngsters showcased sporting talents
• One, two, three
• Fanfare as Onitsha Archdiocese honours 430 women
• Garden city’s rebirth
• PEACE PACT• Sudanese in Nigeria bury the hatchet
• Days of rage in Yobe
• Aspirant’s lifeline for orphans
• Held hostage in hospital
• MOON EATS UP THE SUN
• Day Taylor was captured
• AKOKOLAND: Different languages, one culture
• Naira rain at barbecue fiesta
• WORLD OF WOMEN MECHANICS
• Women unite for change
• Kings of the road: Fuel tankers take over Oshodi-Apapa expressway
• Kerosene scarcity hits Lagos
• CELEBRATION OF TWINS
• Lady in search of Nigerian father
• Colourful FAREWELL
• With pomp, Tianshi moves into Shogunle
• Garland for best commissioner
• Day Nigerian kids held the world spellbound
• FROM BRITAIN WITH LOVE
• Big lesson for singles
• New king mounts throne in style
• Girl hired to carry pregnancy for another woman
• Abia to seek FG’s assistance on Aba flooding
• Eulogies for Ojukwu, the last patriot standing
• Community agog as govt commissions project
• CELEBRATION OF LOVE
• UNUSUAL PRAYER FOR SFG
• Female lawyers shower prisoners, kids with gifts
• ‘How we marked Valentine’s Day!
• Lagos woos private sector on waste managemnet
• TOWN MKO LOVED
• Egba king dances for God
• Day Rotary Club took youths across the sea
• Army’s ‘CBN governor’ signs off
• Ajegunle showcases virgins
• Day Nigerians remembered air crashes, other disasters
• Day Rotary Club took youths across
• Soul-lifting messages as church marks convention
• FINAL SALUTE :As AVM Hedima takes a bow
• Group gives the blind eyes
• HURINET holds awards night
• Songs of praise at church dedication
• FINAL SALUTE :As AVM Hedima takes a bow
• Group gives the blind eyes
• HURINET holds awards night
• Songs of praise at church dedication
• HEAVENLY TEARS....
• With ordinations, church marks anniversary
• Xmas eve carnival unites streets youths
• DAY OF MIRACLE
• Dancing in Benue as LEEMP projects are commissioned
• Senator celebrates first baby in 11-year-old marriage
• Showers of blessing at carol night
• Iba stands still as Oba marks anniversary
• Alaketu dreams Lagos
• GRANDMA’S RIDE...
• Adamawa gives ex-Cameroonians better life
• Group gives widows hope
• Damsels jostle for ‘Igbo face’ 2006
• Church marks anniversary with prophecies
• Funfare as church holds harvest thanksgiving
• Oke Oro stands still for oba’s son
• HUMAN CARGO..
• Pa Obialor goes home in a blaze of glory
• Catholic Church tickles Ajegunle ...
• Ophanage drinks Travelex milk of ...
• OUT IN THE COLD-Liquidator uses thugs ....
• Day stranded passengers battled ...
• Friend of bees
• Nestle Milo dazes consumers
• ALL HAIL THE KING
• Oworonsoki cries out
• Tears in their eyes
• Widower seeks help to feed twins
• POWER OF LOVE-Two disabled wed
• School body marks
• Delta stands still for speaker’s birthday
• Blood flows as drivers clash in Benue
• TWO OF A KIND: ...
• Trouble looms over planned ...
• Hare Krishna holds peace festival
• Anglican voice on parade
• ZIP UP: These ladies have vowed not to marry
• Final year students celebrate at UNIBEN
• Cross River donates wheelchairs to the disabled
• Enugu just like huge construction site
• WORLD BANK TO THE RESCUE
• Catholic students wage war against social vices
• LDS charities donates 250 wheelchairs
• Mafoluku residents cry out over flood
• FROM AMERICA WITH LOVE
• German falls in love with Lagos
• Rotary's new king mounts the throne
• Sharia or no sharia, Zamfara church celebrates
• The week honours 4 govs
• Women take to the street over oil
• Bank workers fight fire to standstill
• Bachama kingdom toasts to peaceful co-existence
• Council teaches people how to make money from waste
• Young professionals initiated into IFBPW
• Day Richard Brandson danced Owambe better than Yorubas
• UNOY celebrates Nigerian youths
• How Jalingo flood swept hundreds of lives away
• Niger boat mishap: Counting the losses
• ‘I am finished’
• Isienyi-Ukwu Amakama: Village where bees are guards
• Muslims blame government for poor hajj operation
• Village head sells shrine, eats akara then hangs self
• Bad roads overwhelm Uyo
• Day Obasanjo’s son queued at land registry
• Ooni hosts Lagos children
• Celebration as Islamic leader turns 70
• Corps member puts smile on Imgbi residents’ faces
• Living with ghosts… Can you?
• War over playground …Ownership of recreational land in Festac-Town sets
• AWKA WONDERWind of transformation hits UNIZIK
• Ebonyi, Cross River communities clash
• NGO gives widows succour