After existing for close to 150 years, the Atan Cemetery in Yaba, Lagos, still has abundant space to accommodate new corpses, Jude Aisuebeogun, a director at the cemetery, said on Thursday. In an interview with NAN on Thursday, Aisuebeogun said half of the graveyard, which covers 25 hectares of land, is yet to be used. The cemetery, established by the British colonial masters, ranks among the oldest of its type in Nigeria. The director said there were files for all corpses buried at the cemetery and each grave is numbered for proper administration. “The Atan Cemetery was established in 1868 and it covers a 25-hectare of land and half of it has not been used,” he said. “There will still be spaces to accommodate dead bodies for a long time. When someone pays for a vault, the grave is dug in front of him and no skeleton has been removed or reburied in the process.” Aisuebeogun revealed that the cemetery had vacant lots to lease to Ebony, a private cemetery operator. He also sai...