AUTHORITIES in Lagos, Nigeria’s economic capital, have set up a scheme to clear the streets of the city of corpses in a bid to spruce up its image. Fresh and decomposing corpses litter Lagos streets daily, posing health hazards to more than 10 million residents in Nigeria’s most populous city. Most of the corpses are victims of rituals, robbery, lynching, mob justice or those knocked down by vehicles on highways. The scheme, started last week, aims to pick up the bodies soon after they are spotted by local residents, including the setting up of a special hotline by which local corpse-clearance teams an be alerted. – AFP