The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) yesterday described Anambra State as the den of drug trafficking, expressing worry that most dangerous drugs, including methamphetamine, were produced in the state.

The level of destruction of human lives and property was so enormous that the then President Ibrahim Babangida equated it with the Nigerian civil war. There have been scores of other incidents in the area since then as residents either clash over farm lands and grazing sites or over alleged infringements on certain religious matters and some other frivolous reasons.

When you hear some of the cases of medical malpractice that have become all too rampant now you can’t but conclude that some medical doctors have become petty fraudsters. It’s one thing to commit a mistake that falls below the standard expected of doctors or even one that borders on ‘criminal’ negligence , it is however egregious evil to engage in activities aimed primarily at defrauding patients. And tragically, in many of these cases, hapless victims must “leave it to God”

NEXT of Kins (NoKs) of the Federal Pensio-ners, yesterday, besieged the headquarters of the Pension Transitional Arrangement Directorate (PTAD) in Abuja over what they described as lackadaisical attitude of the management of PTAD towards their plights.

THE leadership of the All Progressive Grand Alliance (APGA) in Bayelsa State yesterday raised an alarm over alleged attempts by some officials of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and the Peoples Democratic Party ,PDP, to thumb print and falsify the cancelled results of some units of Ewoama Ward of Brass Constituency II of Brass Local Government area of the state.