This is certainly not the best of times for Benue farmers in Agatu, Guma, Gwer west and Makurdi local government areas of the state given the sustained and unrestricted attacks on communities in these areas by Fulani herdsmen.

Residents of five villages in Yabo Local Government Area of Sokoto State got the shock of their lives at the weekend when a wind storm struck and destroyed 110 houses. Presently the residents are still counting their losses, especially in the villages that were completely razed by the raging storm.

THE Commander, Nigeria Navy Service, NNS Delta, Warri Naval Base, Commodore Mohammed Garba was bubbly, last weekend, as he verbalised on the several battles between his men and oil thieves in Delta State in the last few months.

In case the Lagos State governor, Babatunde Fashola or his aides, are reading this piece, their attention is urgently needed at Community Secondary School, Bayeku in Ikorodu area of the State. Reason? The school is an academic embarrassment.

For 45 years old Augustine Odogwu, an indigene of Delta State, life has taken an ugly twist as his lucrative business of many years has come crashing after he was arrested by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency,NDLEA, for being in possession of 108 kilogrammes of weeds suspected to be Cannabis Savita(Indian Hemp).

TO be born with disability is quite challenging. Being born whole and having to suffer sudden disability for no fault of yours at a tender age could be cruel, far more challenging and regrettable.

RESIDENTS of Kubwa extension II, a suburb of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Abuja are presently up in arms against a contractor and a staff of the Power Holdings Company of Nigeria over an alleged ploy to deny the community of a transformer after they had paid N3.4million for it. The residents alleged that the contractor, Mr Chukwudi Chukwuleke, connived with his wife, Mrs Eyiuche Chukwudi, a staff of PHCN Kubwa, to extort them in the transformer installation deal.

Two years ago, 10 corps members were brutally killed while undergoing the mandatory one year National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, scheme in Bauchi State. The tragic incident was a fallout of the crises that attended the April 17, 2011 presidential election, with the massacre of the innocent spreading to other Northern states such as Kano, Gombe and Kaduna, leaving the nation shell-shocked, with most Nigerians responding with torrents of condemnation and calling on the Federal Government to ensure that the perpetrators of the dastardly act were speedily brought to book.

IT was an action, some thought, offended even the gods as it reduced an otherwise respected Oba to an object of public humiliation and ridicule. For how else could one describe a situation where a royal father was stripped stark naked by some of his irate subjects after his family members were attacked and his palace set ablaze?

Mr. Frank Ogundana, 50, is presently in deep grief over the loss of his two children within a space of six months. His eight-year-old daughter, Donna, who was admitted at the General Hospital Ikorodu on Monday April 8, died last Thursday under questionable circumstances morbidly reminiscent of the death of his only son at the same hospital about six months ago through what he described as “doctors’ negligence’’.

BUTCHERS in Lagos are testing the government’s ability to bite as they have vowed never to comply with the directive to distribute meat, particularly beef, using the approved Eko Meat Vans.

Umike is village in Awka South Local Government Area of Anambra State. The community is at the brink of becoming extinct, no thanks to the gully erosion that is ravaging the area. Several houses in the area have been swallowed by the erosion and the fear of the people is that if nothing is urgently done, the entire community might soon be washed away.

Niger State has had its own bitter experience of the Boko Haram nightmare, with attacks from the dreaded terrorists leaving scores of people dead and property worth millions of naira destroyed. The tragic incidents also left a thick cloud of fear in the state.

CALL him a veteran in vandalising installations belonging to the Power Holding Company of Nigeria, PHCN, you will not be wrong. The truth is that middle aged Chukwu Onyekachi from Okofia Village, Ezza East Development Centre in Ezza South local government area of Ebonyi State was for long on top of his game as a vandal until nemesis caught up with him following his arrest by men of the State Command of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC.

A POPULAR proverb has it that everyday is pregnant with mysteries which defy human knowledge. This saying played itself out on March 21, 2013 in Yelwa Makaranta Community, a suburb of Bauchi metropolis when two middle aged men lost their lives while working inside a well. The incident threw the entire residents of the community into confusion and mourning.