People suspected to be herdsmen, yesterday, attacked Coromo and two other villages in Gassol Local Government Area of Taraba State, killing about 12 persons and wounding about 18 others seriously. Local sources said those killed included seven men, two women and children, while 13 houses were burnt.

The incident occurred in 2005, few days after the immediate past Alake of Egbaland, Oba Oyebade Lipede, joined his ancestors, according to the father of a former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Dimeji Bankole, Chief Alani Bankole, at a launch of his book, titled, ‘ Alake of Egbaland:The Succession Dynamics’.

With the economic downturn, infrastructural malaise and other challenges facing the country at this material time, religious disharmony has remained a difficult hurdle holding us back from collectively and constructively forging a path out of our unfortunate predicaments.

The fragile peace in the umbrella union of all Igbo cultural organisations, the Ohanaeze Ndigbo, following the reconciliation brokered between the two factions of the association by Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo State, has collapsed.

Nigeria has become like the wild west, with guns blazing bandits, coming into town and leaving dead people and damaged properties in their wake. Where is the law and where is the sheriff? This is so wrong, totally wrong. It is shocking to witness the incessant spate of attacks by the Fulani cattle herders and the wanton loss of life and livelihood.