IN Nigeria and environs, High Blood Pressure, a.k.a. Hypertension, is increasingly becoming a problem. It puts people at risk of heart disease, kidney disease and stroke. Already a massive hidden killer, High Blood Pressure is set to sharply rise as Nigerians adopt western diets and sedentary lifestyles.

FORMER Federal Commissioner for Information and Ijaw leader has described the late erstwhile governor of Bayelsa State, Chief Diepreye Alamieyeseigha as a victim of political travail whose death is a monumental loss not only to his family, but also the South South and Nigeria as a whole.

THE attacks are often vicious just as the death statistics have become even more alarming. From the remotest communities in southern Kaduna State to some other equally rural settlements in parts of Plateau, Benue, Kwara and Niger states, reports indicate that activities of herdsmen may have gone beyond herding and grazing their cattle.

Members of the Association of African Traditional Religion of Nigeria (AATREN), thronged the Divination Centre at Iroko-Awe, Eti -Osa local government council of Lagos State to offer special prayers for the nation and Lagos State in particular.

Five out of the six suspected Fulani herdsmen who were arrested by operatives of the Intelligence Response Squad, IRS, an elite unit of the Nigeria Police, deployed by the Inspector General of Police, Solomon Arase, to track and apprehend the masterminds of the kidnapping of a former Secretary of the Federation, Chief Olu Falae in his farm, were paraded, during the week before Falae, for identification.