RIVER SUDDENLY BECOMES DRY LAND AT KARA MARKET

Residents,workers,passers-by on saturday besieged Kara along the Lagos-Ibadan expressway to view the sudden appearance of plants which grew on a section of the Ogun river.A large number of people were at the scene.Several eyewitnesses described the occurence as "strange",but geological experts said via SUNDAY PUNCH that the plants were simply rapidly growing seaweed and that the incident was not extraordinary.