“Integrity is not a conditional word. It doesn’t blow in the wind or change with the weather. It is your inner image of yourself, and if you look in there and see a man who won’t cheat, then you know he never will. Integrity is not a search for the rewards of integrity. Maybe all you ever get for it is the largest kick in the ass the world can provide. It is not supposed to be a productive asset.” — John D. MacDonald

Barely two days after a suicide bomber attacked the Emir of Fika in Potiskum, Yobe State, in the mosque, claiming three lives, another bomber struck in Damaturu, the capital of the state, last Sunday, killing six soldiers of the joint task force (JTF). The latest bombing occurred along Gashua Road.

In a press release by his Special Adviser on Monitoring, Mr. Bernard Mikko, the former General Manager of the Nigeria Ports Authority, NPA, Alhaji Bamanga Tukur, sought to distance himself from his son’s present predicaments. Unfortunately for Tukur and Mikko, they missed the point entirely.

The Olupitan-Hassan family of Ikeja area of Lagos State has appealed to the Nigerian Army to fish out the alleged killers of their bread winner Adewale Olupitan-Hassan who died on Monday, July 30, barely one week after he was allegedly brutalised by some people in military uniform in Obanikoro area of the state.

Take a very long, hard look; and then imagine that your brother, or sister or any member of your extended family had been a victim or had been lost to the insurgency in those areas marked on the face of the map of Nigeria as areas of insurgent attacks.