…Says I foresee a revolution if Boko Haram killings continue
From the pulpit comes a warning that Nigeria may be close to a revolution if the Boko Haram killings continue. Dr. Sunday Ola Makinde, the prelate of Methodist Church of Nigeria, points out: “If we continue like this, there will be a revolution and the first class people will be the target. They should therefore act before it is too late”. In this interview, Makinde insists that the Boko Haram issue is religious rather than political.

ONE matter that evoked considerable infatuation at the just ended 2nd South-South Economic Summit, held at Asaba, capital of Delta State, was the issue of power and, indeed, it formed a critical part of the communiqué by the governors. During the summit, Rivers state governor, Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi, expressed disillusionment that after generating power to meet the needs of his people, it could not be distributed because the federal government was playing Ostrich with license to transmit and distribute same.

Edo State Chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) said yesterday that the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) in the state should look inwards for the killers of the Governor’s Principal Private Secretary, Comrade Olaitan Oyerinde.

The concept expressed by the word ‘family’ and its diverse manifestations in various societies throughout history have been discussed for a long time from different perspectives by anthropologists, sociologists, psychologists, historians, philosophers and educators. Chambers Twentieth Century Dictionary provides the lexical meaning of ‘family’ which we shall adopt as a working definition.

Twice in two months, Ali Hudu Kurma, a 25-year-old deaf and dumb, narrowly escaped from suspected kidnappers. On each occasion, he had boarded a commercial vehicle from Piako to Kano, where he had lived over the last one decade and met some strange faces that made him uncomfortable and, on the two occasions, he choose to force his way out to safety.