Ifeoma Emmanuel, who was a victim of the 2002 armoury explosion at the military cantonment in Ikeja, the capital city of Lagos State, which killed hundreds of people, is thanking God for sparing her life, as she celebrated 18 years after the sad incident. The January 27, 2002, sporadic blasts at the military cantonment in Lagos left at least 1,100 people killed and displaced over 20,000, with many thousands injured or homeless. Many children were killed in the cantonment bomb blasts, but it could not immediately be ascertained how many of the children were made orphans. The then Lagos police commissioner, Mike Okiro, said the tragedy was made all the greater by the numbers of children lost. Last night, the authorities were trying to reunite hundreds of children with their parents.

Source: Nigerian Tribune January 31, 2020 11:26 UTC