[The Alausa Blog]: Lagos gives quit notice to owners of properties blocking drainage channels

The Lagos State Government on Sunday has ordered owners of properties erected on drainage channels and impeding the free-flow of water to immediately vacate or risk being removed The Commissioner for the Environment, Dr. Babatunde Adejare, expressed dismay in a statement that the lawless activities of some people were constantly putting the lives and property... Read More

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Channel, environment, flooding, lagos

July 15, 2013

Sad: Woman dies swimming across the English Channel to raise money for charity

Susan Taylor, 34, died as she neared the end of a charity swim across the English Channel Friends of a British woman who died swimming the English Channel for charity soon realised something had gone wrong when her online progress tracker stopped updating. Susan Taylor, 34, collapsed suddenly as she neared the end of her... Read More

Channel, charity, facebook, Horrified, online, progress tracker, Susan Taylor, swim, tragedy, woman

March 24, 2012

Designer Karl Lagerfeld goes off again! Calls Newsweek a ‘s****y little paper’

by Chi Ibe Yeah we know those who care are in a vanishing minority – but iconic designer, Karl Lagerfeld, the 78-year-old Chanel honcho is in the news for making yet another controversial statement. According to New York Magazine, when asked what he thinks of Pulitzer prize-winning journalist Robin Givhan’s recent Newsweek story that called him... Read More

Channel, Designer, Karl Lagerfeld, Newssweek