No fewer than 2,500 people have allegedly been displaced since the commencement of the Anambra and Kogi states communal bloody clash about 18 months ago.

Embarrassed by the needless threats and vitriolic vituperation from the leaders of the All Progressives Congress, APC, as a result of the emergence of Senator Bukola Saraki and Hon. Yakubu Dogara as Ssenate President and Speaker of the House of Representatives, respectively, President Muhammadu Buhari has prevailed on leaders of the party to sheathe their swords.

Dr. Patrick Dele Cole served during the first term of former President Olusegun Obasanjo as Special Adviser on International Relations. In this piece, Cole speaks on the ill of African immigration to Europe.

War costs money and, at the end, someone has to pay. In the 17th, 18th, 19th centuries, the vanquished usually paid in cash or by loss of territories. Germany had been asked to pay unitive damages after the First World War which it did for a while and, as recently as a few weeks ago, Greece called on Germany to pay war reparations to it for Germany’s Second World War activities to enable it settle its debts. Germany was supposed to have paid reparations for two World Wars but the experience of the aftermath of the First World War may have deterred the losers from seeking full reparations.

As a student of history, I have come to realise that it is only within the scaffolding of fidelity to its lessons that individuals and groups can positively transform socio-political reality in an enduring and meaningful way. In otherwords, those who ignore the lessons of history no matter how disagreeable they might be are bound to repeat terrible errors of the past. Ever since Nigeria was created by British colonial imperialism in 1914, efforts have been made to build a truly Nigerian nation that blends into a relatively harmonious geopolitical entity the diverse ethnic nationalities out of which the colonial amalgam was founded. Unfortunately, from the very beginning such attempts, especially by British colonial administrators, were largely disingenuous, biased in favour of the North and geared towards optimum exploitation of the newly created colony for the benefit of imperial Britain.

GENERAL Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), Pastor Enoch Adejare Adeboye, an astute mathematics teacher recently established a link between the subject and success in every human endeavour.

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo says over 100 million Nigerians live below the poverty line.

New Deputy Senate President (DSP), Ike Ekweremadu, yesterday, stated that the decision of majority of the people of South-East to vote for the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, was a decision they are proud of.

A 65-year-old, arrested alongside three others for allegedly indulging in cult activities, has claimed poverty led him into selling arms. The suspect, who identified himself as Najim Bakare, said: “I got involved in selling guns because I was poor and needed to make ends meet.”

It is disturbing that in this day and age, people can work and not get paid and yet, it is expected, I mean, it is demanded that they continue to work and there is no promise of payment. Only in Nigeria! Nigerian mentality is oxymoronic.

President Muhammadu Buhari, who has just been sworn-in, ended his last public assignment 16 years ago, when he voluntarily resigned as Chairman of the Petroleum (Special) Trust Fund (PTF). That was on the eve of the take-off of the Fourth Republic with the handover of power by the last military regime of Gen. Abdulsalami Abubakar.

Diverse reactions trailed the emergence of Senator Bukola Saraki (APC), Senator Ike Ekweremadu (PDP) and Hon. Yakubu Dogara (APC) as Senate President, Deputy Senate President and House of Representatives Speaker respectively.

Head of Operations, Onuesoke Foundation on Climate Change, Mrs. Pearl Patience Igho, has advised the people of Delta State on the need to check the disposal of their waste products in order to avoid flooding and environmental disaster.

State Governor, Senator Ifeanyi Okowa, has congratulated Mr Sam Amuka, the publisher of Vanguard newspaper on his 80th birthday. The Governor, in a statement by his Communication Manager, Mr Jackson Ekwugum, said: “Uncle Sam, as he is fondly called by admirers, is an icon of journalism in Nigeria with his impeccable credentials as a columnist, editor and publisher, spanning over four decades”.

Amid downpour in Calabar, Cross River State capital, no fewer than three houses were, in the early hours of yesterday, razed by fire. It happened in Ephraim Street, Calabar South.

In line with Coca- Cola’s commitment to inspire and empower the youth, the brand has unveiled a new campaign tagged “Billion Reasons to Believe”.The campaign is aimed at inspiring optimism among young people, challenging them to believe in themselves and achieve their dreams.