High cost of air ticket on Nigeria-South Africa route has scuttled the plans of many Nigerians resident in the country to travel home for Christmas.

There was another bomb scare in the Plateau State Capital, Monday, following the arrest of a man around the overhead bridge in Gada Biyu area for allegedly trying to blow up the bridge.

Christmas is many things to many people. It’s the season to be jolly and I guess it would be if the true meaning of it was the reason behind all of the frantic activities that grip the world around the period. The season was not so jolly the past few years and I had to make a conscious effort to pray and ask God to break the cycle of drama that seemed to be all the present I got annually.

The umbrella organisation of all Northern socio-cultural associations, Arewa Consultative Forum, ACF yesterday condemned last Christmas Day’s bomb blasts in some churches in the North, warning that the attack was capable of causing religious crises which would serve nobody any good in the country.

The Abia State Government has expressed its determination to reclaim and rehabilitate 20 per cent of gully erosion sites in the state in 2012.

Christmas used to mean so much to me, as a child – so much of nothingness. It was a feeling which accompanied me to adulthood. It meant a time to splurge on good food for a day or two, after numerous activities that meant very little but dragged the time away.

– Christmas celebration in the university town of Nsukka in Enugu state was marred by violent clashes by rival cult groups which claimed two lives.

Some Christian clerics in Lagos have condemned the Christmas Day bomb blasts in Niger and Plateau, saying the explosions were unwarranted.

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has called on Nigerians to remain steadfast and resolute while keeping faith with the nation in the face of daunting challenges.