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Ikeja bomb blast: 22 years after, victims, residents recount tales of loss, recovery

On that fateful Sunday, *Mrs. Zainab Ayoola, nine months pregnant, sat in her living room when a loud bang shook the house. Filled with fear, she ventured out from her home on Ajejunle Street, Onigbongbo, seeking to know the cause.

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Jan 26, 2024
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An image of the entrance of the Nigerian Army Cantonment, Ikeja, Lagos. Credit: Omon Okhuevbie/The Record.

On January 27, 2002, Mr. Olakunle Akinlabi, a shoe designer, upon witnessing billows of smoke and the staccato of earth-shattering explosions, thought the world was coming to an end. He had left his house at Onigbongbo, Ikeja to visit a friend in Su…

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