Culture is born out of an aggregation of people who come together for the sole purpose of finding meaning to their lives. Culture as an important ethnic identity, consists of language, ideas, beliefs, customs, taboos, codes, institutions, tools, techniques, work of art, rituals, ceremonies and symbols.

As you approach the internally displaced persons’ camp, mostly populated by women and children and situated at a corner of the Zang Commercial School, Bukuru, a funny smell hits your nostrils. You see the inmates going about their daily chores wearing long faces. Except the laughter from children who play quietly in the compound, the sight is depressing.

Chief Christian Ojimba, fondly called Chief Jab, is a lecturer at the Federal College of Education, FCE, Kabuga, Kano. But for mother luck, the doctorate student at the Bayero University, Kano, would have been dead when Boko Haram terrorists attacked the college on Wednesday, September 17, 2014. The attack lasted 45 minutes.

They had gone to bed that fateful night in Gboko, Benue State, not knowing they would not sleep to see the break of a new day – no thanks to the outage in public power supply which compelled the head of the family, Lawani Oye, to put on his power generating set

From December 14 to 26, members of God’s Kingdom Society, GKS, the Church of the Living God, gathered in Salem City, Warri, the church’s headquarters for their annual Feast of tabernacles. 94 branches had arrived by Saturday, with edifying lecturers, teaching, meetings and processions spread across the week. However, the atmosphere was free from chocking spirituality— it was a colourful festival.